Murphy Anderson
| Murphy Anderson | |
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Anderson in the 2010s.
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| Born |
July 9, 1926 Asheville, North Carolina |
| Died |
October 22, 2015 (aged 89) Somerset, New Jersey |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Penciller, Inker |
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Notable works
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Action Comics Hawkman Strange Adventures Superboy Superman |
| Awards |
Alley Award 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 Inkpot Award, 1984 Jack Kirby Hall of Fame, 1988 Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame (2013) |
Murphy C. Anderson, Jr. (July 9, 1926 – October 22, 2015) was an American comic book artist, known as one of the premier inkers of his era, who worked for companies such as DC Comics for over fifty years, starting in the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s. He worked on such characters as Hawkman, Batgirl, Zatanna, the Spectre, and Superman, as well as on the Buck Rogers daily syndicated newspaper comic strip. Anderson also contributed for many years to PS, the preventive maintenance comics magazine of the U.S. Army.
Murphy Anderson was born on July 9, 1926, in Asheville, North Carolina, and while in grade school moved with his family to Greensboro, North Carolina. After graduating high school in 1943, he briefly attended the University of North Carolina before moving to New York City seeking work in the comics industry, and was hired by Jack Byrne as a staff artist at the comic-book publisher Fiction House. His first confirmed credit is the 2 2/3-page nonfiction aviation featurette "Jet Propulsion" in Wings Comics #48 (cover-dated Aug. 1944), and his first fiction feature was an eight-page "Suicide Smith and the Air Commanders" story in Wings Comics #50 (Oct. 1944). By the following month he was the regular artist on the Planet Comics features "Life on Other Worlds" and "Star Pirate". Anderson continued doing comics work, as well as illustrations for science-fiction pulp magazines, during his stateside postings while serving in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1945.
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