Arthur Peddy
| Arthur Peddy | |
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| Born |
December 26, 1916 New Jersey, US |
| Died | May 15, 2002 (aged 85) Norwalk, Connecticut, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Penciller, Inker |
| Pseudonym(s) | Kenneth Julian |
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Notable works
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Phantom Lady Jann of the Jungle Justice Society of America Heap |
Arthur F. Peddy (December 26, 1916 – May 15, 2002) was an American comic book and advertising artist best known for co-creating Quality Comics' superhero character Phantom Lady and Atlas Comics' character Jann of the Jungle. He also was known for a stint as penciler of the superhero team the Justice Society of America for what later became DC Comics.
Peddy began his art career during the late-1930s and 1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books and remained active in the medium into the 1970s, when he began concentrating on commercial art and advertising.
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's 1965 painting Sound of Music is based on a Peddy comic-book panel.
Arthur Peddy was born in New Jersey. He entered the fledgling comic book field in 1938 at Eisner & Iger, one of a handful of "packagers" that would produce outsourced comics on demand for publishers experimenting with the new medium, and continued there after Eisner departed in 1940 and it became the S. M. Iger Studio. Peddy's first known comic-book work was the four-page Western feature "Waco Kid" in publisher Fox Comics' Mystery Men Comics #1 (cover-dated Aug. 1939). For that publisher as well as for Fiction House and Quality Comics, he drew seafaring stories, jungle adventures, science-fiction stories and other genre tales. With writer Toni Blum. he shared the pen name Lance Blackwood on at least one story starring Merlin the Magician, a descendant of Arthurian Merlin, in Quality's National Comics #8 (Feb. 1941). On his own he initially used the pseudonym Kenneth Julian for the police feature "Rookie Rankin" in Quality's Smash Comics before reverting to his real name.
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