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Elmer Wexler (August 14, 1918 - October 3, 2007) was an American illustrator and cartoonist. He is most famous for his work on comic strips and comic books in the 1940s, Elmer Wexler biography at pulpartists.com, retrieved July 8, 2012 including being the inventor of the DC comic hero Miss America in 1941. He is credited with being the first artist to draw a soap-opera style comic strip,"The Look of Love: The Rise and Fall of the Photo-Realistic Newspaper Strip" at Vic Jordan, from 1941. Vic Jordan at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved July 2, 2012.
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Archived from the original on July 19, 2015. "Obscurity of the Day: Vic Jordan", blog post at Stripper's Guide, July 21, 2008, retrieved July 9, 2012
Later he made his living from illustration, including books, magazines and record covers. He has also been credited as a co-creator of the obscure comic book character Fighting Yank. He is the illustrator on a number of books about sports.Spalding Book of Rules () Bing Broido and Elmer Wexler. NY: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books, 1998; numerous other editions existMore Instant Tennis Lessons () Lamarche, Robert J. illus by Elmer Wexler. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1984The Complete Racquet Sports Player () Fitzgibbon, Herbert S. II; Bairstow, Jeffrey N. illus by Elmer Wexler. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1983
Wexler's record cover work was mainly for Grand Award Records,See, for example, record cover for Hammond Organ Spectacular, blog post at Unearthed in the Atomic Attic, May 1, 2011, retrieved July 2, 2012 for whom he did almost as many illustrations as did Tracy Sugarman. These date from the late 1950s.
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