Jerry Iger

Jerry Iger
Born	Samuel Maxwell Iger August 22, 1903 Idabel, Oklahoma
Died	September 5, 1990 Sunnyside, Queens, New York City
Area(s)	Cartoonist, Writer, Editor, Publisher
Notable works	Eisner & Iger

Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger (/ˈaɪɡər/; August 22, 1903 – September 5, 1990) was an American cartoonist. With business partner Will Eisner he co-founded Eisner & Iger, a comic book packager that produced comics on demand for new publishers during the late-1930s and 1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books.

Iger is not related to comic book publisher Fred Iger. Iger was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009.

Jerry Iger was born in Idabel, Oklahoma, near the Choctaw Indian reservation. The youngest of four children of an Austrian peddler who'd settled in what was then the pre-statehood Indian Territory, Iger contracted polio as a child and was cared for by his mother, Rosa. Iger had two sisters, and a brother, Joe, whose son Arthur Iger (b. 1926) would become the father of The Walt Disney Company Chairman and CEO Robert Iger. Arthur by the mid-1970s was vice president and publisher of the educational division of Macmillan Publishing in New York City.

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