Howard Purcell
| Howard Purcell | |
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| Born | November 10, 1918 |
| Died | April 24, 1981 (aged 62) Luzerne County, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer, Penciller |
| Pseudonym(s) | Michael Robard |
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Notable works
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Enchantress Gay Ghost Sargon the Sorcerer |
Howard Purcell (November 10, 1918 – April 24, 1981) was an American comic book artist and writer active from the 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books through the 1960s Silver Age.
A longtime penciler and cover artist for DC Comics, one of the field's two largest firms, he co-created the Golden Age characters Sargon the Sorcerer and the Gay Ghost (renamed in the 1970s the Grim Ghost) for All-American Publications, one of the companies, with National Comics and Detective Comics, that merged to form DC. Purcell also drew the famous cover of Green Lantern #1 (Fall 1941).
Howard Purcell, whose early influences included the adventure comic strip artists Hal Foster and Alex Raymond, as well as illustrators Harvey Dunn and Dean Cornwell, took art classes at the Art Students League of New York. He worked as an animator in New York City studios before entering the comics industry, where his earliest known credit is National's Adventure Comics #53 (Aug. 1940), for which he wrote and drew the six-page feature "Mark Lansing". The titular adventurer's exploits with subterranean races and other science fictiony conceits ran through issue #62. By that time Purcell had drawn the cover of All-American's All Star Comics #2 (Fall 1940) – reprinted as the cover of DC Comics' quirkily numbered, 2006 hardcover collection All Star Archives #0 – as well as the feature "Lando, Man of Magic" in World's Best Comics #1 (Spring 1941), and both the Green Lantern cover of, and the humorous adventure feature "Red, White and Blue" in, All-American Comics #25 (April 1941).
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