Jim Mooney
| Jim Mooney | |
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| Born |
August 13, 1919 New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | March 30, 2008 (aged 88) Florida |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Penciller, Inker |
| Pseudonym(s) | Jay Noel |
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Notable works
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Action Comics (Tommy Tomorrow, Supergirl) Spectacular Spider-Man Star Spangled Comics (Robin) |
James Noel "Jim" Mooney (August 13, 1919 – March 30, 2008) was an American comic book artist best known for his long tenure at DC Comics and as the signature artist of Supergirl, as well as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist, both during what comics historians and fans call the Silver Age of comic books. He sometimes inked under the pseudonym Jay Noel.
Jim Mooney was born in New York City but raised in Los Angeles. Mooney was friends with pulp fiction author Henry Kuttner and other Californian science fiction fans such as Forrest J. Ackerman; he drew the cover for the first issue of Imagination, an Ackerman fanzine which included Ray Bradbury's first published story, "Hollerbochen's Dilemma". Kuttner encouraged the teenaged Mooney to submit art to Farnsworth Wright, the editor of the pulp magazine for which Kuttner was writing, Weird Tales. Mooney's first professional sale was an illustration for one of Kuttner's stories in that magazine. During this period, Mooney also met Mort Weisinger and Julius Schwartz, who had come to the area to meet Kuttner.
After attending art school and working as a parking valet and other odd jobs for nightclubs, Mooney went to New York City in 1940 to enter the fledging comic-book field. Following his first assignment, the new feature "The Moth" in Fox Publications' Mystery Men Comics #9-12 (April–July 1940), Mooney worked for the comic-book packager Eisner & Iger, one of the studios that would supply outsourced comics to publishers testing the waters of the new medium. He left voluntarily after two weeks: "I was just absolutely crestfallen when I looked at some of the guys’ work. Lou Fine was working there, Nick Cardy ... and Eisner himself. I was beginning to feel that I was way, way in beyond my depth...."
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