Michael Bair
| Michael Bair | |
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| Born | Michael A. Hernandez c. 1938/1939 |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Penciller, Inker |
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Michael A. Hernandez is an American comic book artist (who is better known as Michael Bair), best known for his work as an inker. His work includes Marvel Comics' Alpha Flight, and DC Comics' Hawkman. He is best known for inking Rags Morales' pencils since 2002, most notably on the high-profile miniseries Identity Crisis.
Bair started his career in the early 1980s, pencilling a "Stormy Tempest" story in Star*Fems #2 for AC Comics/Paragon Publications in 1982. In 1983, he began working for the leading American comic book publishers, DC Comics and Marvel Comics. Bair's first work for "DC was the 'Huntress' backup in Wonder Woman and then JSA Vs America, [sic]" all of which work, he recalls, "was pencilling." He produced a range of penciled and inked covers for the company over the following ten years; for Marvel he pencil work for Moon Knight #31, but focused on non-Marvel work until the mid- to late-1980s.
Between 1984 and 1985, Bair worked for Eclipse Comics, drawing covers and interior pencils for Aztec Ace, pencils and inks for Crimson Dawn, and backup features for Sabre.
For these few early years of his career, Bair says he "used my legal name which is Michael Hernandez. I chose to change to Bair because it's my mother's maiden name and you have to understand, there are a lot of Hernandez's in comics- I've even got chided over it [laughs]. It was simple to go with Bair — there are no other Bairs in comics — though I did get a call from Mike Barr over it [laughs]."
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