Bernard Baily
| Bernard Baily | |
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| Born | April 5, 1916 |
| Died | January 19, 1996 (aged 79) |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer, Artist, Editor, Publisher |
| Pseudonym(s) | Glenda Carrol, Glenda Carol |
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Notable works
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The Spectre, Hourman |
Bernard Baily (April 5, 1916 – January 19, 1996) was an American comic book artist best known as co-creator of the DC Comics characters the Spectre and Hourman, and a comics publisher, writer, and editor.
Bernard Baily began his comics career under S. M. "Jerry" Iger, editor of Wow, What a Magazine!, one of the seminal American comic books that reprinted black-and-white newspaper comic strips in color and adding occasional new material as well. The title ran four issues (cover-dated July-Sept. & Nov. 1936). Like many other creators during the late-1930s and 1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books, Baily transitioned to the newly formed studio Eisner & Iger, a prominent comic book "packager" that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium. There through the late 1930s, Baily worked on such fillers as the one-page movie-star biographies "Star Snapshots" for publisher Quality Comics' Smash Comics, as well as on a syndicated comic strip, Phyllis.
For DC Comics precursor National Comics, Baily co-created and drew the adventure feature "Tex Thomson" in Action Comics #1 (March 1938), the landmark comic book that introduced Superman. The Thomson feature ran through Action Comics #32 (Jan. 1941), after which the character adopted the superhero identities Mister America (Action Comics #33-52) and the Americommando (Action Comics #53-74, reaching to cover-date July 1944). Baily also wrote and drew the pirate-adventure feature "Buccaneer" in National's More Fun Comics #32-51 (June 1938 - Jan. 1940).
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