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George Tuska (; April 26, 1916 – October 16, 2009), George Tuska at the Social Security Death Index via FamilySearch. Retrieved on 5 March 2013. Note: George Tuska at the Lambiek Comiclopedia erroneously gives death date as October 15 who early in his career used a variety of including Carl Larson, was an American and newspaper best known for his 1940s work on various Captain Marvel titles and the series Crime Does Not Pay and for his 1960s work illustrating and other characters. He also drew the newspaper The World's Greatest Superheroes from 1978–1982.

Biography
Early life and career
George Tuska was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the youngest of three children of Russian immigrants Harry and Anna Onisko Tuska, who had met in New York City.
(2026). 9781893905405, TwoMorrows Publishing.
George's siblings Peter, the eldest, and Mary, the middle child, were born in New York City. Years later, Mary died while giving birth to her second child, who was stillborn.Cassell, p. 9 Harry, a foreman at a Hartford auto-tire company, died when George was 14. Anna then opened a restaurant in Paterson, New Jersey, where she had relatives, and later remarried. At 17, Tuska moved to New York City, rooming with his cousin Annie, and a year later began attending the National Academy of Design.Cassell, p. 10 His artistic influences included illustrators Harold von Schmidt, , and , and artists , , and . At some early point, he took his first job in art, designing women's .

Tuska then began working for comic book packager Eisner & Iger, one of a handful of companies at the time that supplied comics on demand for publishers entering the new . His first known published comic-book work appeared in ' Mystery Men Comics #1 and Wonderworld Comics #4, both August 1939. Tuska in the mid-2000s recalled:

At Eisner & Iger, Tuska said in 2001, "I worked alongside , , and ". His studio colleagues later grew to include artists , , and , and writer . Writer-artist and company co-founder recalled of the period, "It was a friendly shop, and I guess I was the same age as the youngest guys there. We all got along. The only ones who ever got into a hassle were George Tuska and . Powell was kind of a wiseguy and made remarks about other people in the shop. One day, George had enough of it, got up, and punched out Bob Powell".Will Eisner interview, Alter Ego #48, May 2005, p. 21 The otherwise mild-mannered Tuska, thinking comic books "would last two or three years — a fad",Cassell, p. 26 later left to seek non-comics work. After two weeks, however, he came across colleagues Sultan and , on their way to meet with comics packager Harry "A" Chesler. Tuska, invited along, joined Chesler's studio, working there in 1939 and 1940, earning $22 a week, increased to $42 a week within six months.Cassell, p. 27 Alongside colleagues that included Sultan, , , and , Tuska helped to supply content for such publications as Captain Marvel Adventures. Later, when Eisner-Iger client formed its own bullpen to produce work on staff, Tuska left Chesler to join Cardy, , and other artists there.Cassell, pp. 29-30

Tuska produced a prodigious amount of work that included, for Fiction House, the adventure feature "Shark Brodie" (under the George Aksut)Cassell, p. 22 and the investigative feature "Hooks Devlin", both for Fight Comics; the rich-vigilante feature "Glory Forbes" in Ranger Comics; and "Jane Martin" in . Before and during his six years at Fiction House, Tuska freelanced such features as the seafaring adventure "Spike Marlin" (as Carl Larson)Cassell, p. 20 in ' Speed Comics; "Wing Turner" (as Floyd Kelly)As in, for example, Mystery Men Comics #4 (Nov. 1939) for ' Mystery Men Comics; "Archie O'Toole" (as Bud Thomas)As in, for example, Smash Comics #11 (June 1940) in ' and "Cosmic Carson" (as Michael Griffith)As in, for example, Science Comics #2 (March 1940) in Fox's Science Comics.

At some point, Tuska again worked for , now split from , with a group of artists including and . "While with Eisner, I penciled some Spirit and Uncle Sam stories". (Tuska's first Uncle Sam work was the cover and virtually every story in Uncle Sam Quarterly #3, cover-dated Summer 1942.) Independently, he was assigned by Fawcett art director to draw "a few more Captain Marvel stories. Allard had asked me to draw as close as possible to the way Captain Marvel had first appeared in Whiz Comics. ... After those freelance jobs, I never worked for Fawcett again". Tuska's earliest Captain Marvel work appeared in Captain Marvel Adventures #2-4 (Summer 1941, Fall 1941, and the oddly dated Oct. 31, 1941).

Drafted into the U.S. Army circa 1942, Tuska was stationed at the 100th Division at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina where he worked in headquarters drawing artillery.Cassell, pp. 32-33 He was honorably discharged as a private first class after a year for reasons the artist did not specify.Cassell, pp. 32-33 Returning home, he took up again with Fiction House, drawing a host of stories featuring Reef Ryan, Rip Carson, Lady Satan, the hero Golden Arrow, and Camilla, Queen of the Jungle.

Crime Does Not Pay
Following the huge popularity of during the World War II years, those characters' appeal began to dwindle in the post-war era.
(2026). 9780801865145, The Johns Hopkins University Press. .
Comic-book publishers, casting about for new subjects and genres, found a hit in , the most prominent comic of which was Lev Gleason Publications' Crime Does Not Pay.Wright, pp. 77-85 Tuska would soon make a name for himself as one of the genre's top comics artists. After starting with short backup features and spot illustrations for text stories, Tuska was drawing the lead stories and more by Crime Does Not Pay #50 (March 1947).

1950s
Tuska's first work for the future came in 1949, when Marvel's predecessor company, , was transitioning to its 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics. His first confirmed credit is the seven-page story "Justice Has a Heart" in Casey - Crime Photographer # 1 (Aug. 1949). George Tuska at Atlas Tales database He quickly went on to draw in an abundance of genres for Atlas, including (in titles including Crime Can't Win, Crime Exposed, Private Eye, Justice, Amazing Detective Cases, and All True Crime Cases Comics); ( Men in Action, War Combat, Man Comics, Battlefield, and Battle); ( Adventures into Weird Worlds, Adventures into Terror, Mystic, Menace, and ); and, particularly, ( Black Rider, , Kid Colt, Outlaw, Red Warrior, , , Western Outlaws & Sheriffs, Wild Western, and many others) through 1957, while also occasionally contributing to and St. John Publications.

Simultaneously at first, from 1954 to 1959, Tuska took over as writer-artist for the failing adventure comic strip , supplying "eye-catching drawings and interesting plots, but it was too late"., editor. 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics (Gramercy Books: New York, Avenel, 1996) . Scorchy Smith entry, p. 320 The strip would end in 1961. Tuska by then had moved on to the long-running comic strip , on which he was the final artist, drawing both the daily and Sunday strip from April 1959 to 1965, and the daily only from then through 1967, when both the daily and the Sunday were canceled.Horn, Buck Rogers entry, p. 70

The Silver Age
Near the cancellation of the daily Buck Rogers strip, Tuska again found a freelance home at what was by now , then in the full breadth of what historians and fans call the Silver Age of Comic Books. "I called editor-in-chief " feature in Tales of Suspense #58 (Nov. 1964), included a special introduction by Lee, hailing the return of the Golden Age great.

Tuska became a Marvel mainstay, and occasionally other artists on series as diverse as Ghost Rider, , and . His signature series became Iron Man, on which he enjoyed a nearly 10-year, sometimes briefly interrupted, run from issue #5 (Sept. 1968) to #106 (Jan. 1978). He and writer Archie Goodwin created the Controller as an antagonist in Iron Man #12 (April 1969).

(2026). 9780756641238, Dorling Kindersley.

Comics historian noted that when Goodwin, Tuska and inker Billy Graham launched in 1972, "it was the first Marvel comic to take its title from a black character."

(1991). 9780810938212, .
Shanna the She-Devil was created by , , and Tuska in the eponymous first issue of that character's own series. "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 157: "Writers Carole Seuling and Steve Gerber crafted Shanna's origin story with artist George Tuska." He was one of the artists on the movie tie-in series Planet of the Apes.Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 166 Due to Marvel not having the likeness rights for , the star of the film, one of the lawyers at 20th Century Fox insisted on changes to Tuska's art. Editor Roy Thomas believed that Tuska "just made a handsome looking guy, but it didn't look like Heston ... you can't argue. If somebody says it looks like Charlton Heston and they're worried he's gonna sue, you can't say 'no' because they just weren't going to give the approval."Thomas in Cassell, pp. 78-79

The A.V. Club insert of wrote, shortly before Tuska's death in 2009, that,

That assessment of Tuska's Marvel work is not widely shared. John Romita Sr., Marvel's de facto and later official during this period, found Tuska "so versatile. He could do everything. When Stan knew that a guy could do anything, he used him in every possible, conceivable way. George was a helluva artist and very versatile and very fast. ... He was in demand".Romita, John Sr. quoted in Cassell, p. 43 Comics writer and Tuska collaborator wrote, "I would love to see a Best of George Tuska collection which included his crime, mystery, romance, war, and western stories. He brought as much excitement and talent to those genres as he did to superhero comics". Comics journalist and historian wrote that,

Later career and death
Later, for , Tuska drew characters including , , and Challengers of the Unknown. He had a four-year run drawing The World's Greatest Superheroes comic strip from 1978–1982, inked by . By this time, his health had become a handicap; , who scripted an issue of Daredevil penciled by Tuska in 1977, recalled that, "George Tuska was at the end of his brilliant career, he was mostly deaf, communication was difficult, and though he showed occasional flashes of the chops that made him a big name artist in his day, I don't think his work on Daredevil was anywhere near his best." Tuska drew DC's Masters of the Universe limited series in 1982.
(2026). 9781616555924, Dark Horse Comics.

Retired from active comics work as of the 2000s, Tuska late in life moved from Hicksville, New York, on , to Manchester Township, New Jersey, with his wife Dorothy ("Dot"), where he did commissioned art. The couple had three children, Barbara, Kathy and Robert. Tuska died in 2009 "near the stroke of midnight between October 15 and October 16," officially on the latter date. His last published comic-book art was one of four variant covers for Dynamite Entertainment's Masquerade #2 (March 2009). Masquerade #2 at the Grand Comics Database

Awards
Tuska was a 1997 recipient of the industry's .

Bibliography
Comics work includes:

DC Comics
  • #409, 486, 550 (1972–1983)
  • #493–494 (1982)
  • The Brave and the Bold #88 (1970)
  • Challengers of the Unknown #73–74 (1970)
  • #486, 490 (1979–1980)
  • Falling In Love #118, 141, 143 (1970–1973)
  • #17–18, 31, 45 (1983–1986)
  • Ghosts #2–4 (1971–1972)
  • Girls' Love Stories #144, 152, 154–155, 158, 160, 165 (1969–1972)
  • Girls' Romances #147, 150, 154, 157 (1970–1971)
  • Green Lantern #166–168, 170 (1983)
  • #128–129 (1970)
  • House of Mystery #207, 293–294, 316 (1972–1983)
  • House of Secrets #86, 90, 95, 104 (1970–1973)
  • Infinity, Inc. #11 (1985)
  • #153, 228, 241–243 (1978–1985)
  • Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 2 #308 (1984)
  • Masters of the Universe #1–3 (1982–1983)
  • Mystery in Space #115, 117 (1981)
  • vol. 2 #4, 9 (1986)
  • Superboy #172–173, 176, 183 (1971–1972)
  • Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #235 (1978)
  • The Superman Family #203, 207–209 (1980–1981)
  • Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes #314–317 (1984)
  • Tales of the Unexpected #34 (1959)
  • #27, 31, 33–39 (1971–1972)
  • The Unexpected #117–118, 120, 123–124, 127, 129, 132, 134, 136, 139, 152, 180, 200 (1970–1980)
  • Weird War Tales #103, 122 (1981–1983)
  • #1 (2000)
  • The Witching Hour #11–12, 19 (1970–1972)
  • World's Finest Comics #250–252, 254, 257, 283–284, 308 (1978–1984)
  • #172 (1971)

Fawcett Comics
  • Captain Marvel Adventures #2–4 (1941)
  • Captain Marvel Jr. #10 (1943)
  • #12–19, 21–23 (1941–1942)

Lev Gleason Publications
  • Black Diamond Western #10, 48 (1949–1954)
  • Boy Comics #30, 57, 70, 98, 101, 105, 113, 115 (1946–1955)
  • Boy Loves Girl #42, 46 (1954)
  • Boy Meets Girl #1 (1950)
  • Crime and Punishment #2–3, 28, 30, 33, 42, 64–64, 70 (1948–1954)
  • Crime Does Not Pay #22, 47–54, 56–64, 66–68, 71–74, 77–78, 80–81, 86–87, 99, 110, 114, 129–140, Annual #1 (1942–1954)
  • Desperado #4 (1948)
  • Lovers' Lane #2, 6, 40 (1949–1954)

Marvel Comics
  • 3-D Action #1 (1954)
  • Adventures into Terror #14, 18 (1952–1953)
  • Adventures into Weird Worlds #1, 12, 15 (1952–1953)
  • All-True Crime #48, 51 (1952)
  • Amazing Detective Cases #10 (1952)
  • Arizona Kid #6 (1952)
  • Astonishing #27 (1953)
  • Astonishing Tales #5–6 (); #8 (Gemini) (1971)
  • The Avengers #47–48, 51, 53–54, 106–107, 135, 137–140, 163 (1967–1977)
  • Battle #11, 15, 23, 30, 32 (1952–1954)
  • Battle Action #2, 29 (1952–1957)
  • Battle Ground #11, 15–16 (1956–1957)
  • Battlefield #3 (1952)
  • Battlefront #22, 37 (1954–1955)
  • Black Goliath #1–3 (1976)
  • Black Rider #12, 18–21 (1951–1954)
  • Captain America #112, 215 (1969–1977)
  • Captain Marvel #54 (1978)
  • Casey – Crime Photographer #1 (1949)
  • Champions #3–4, 6–7, 17 (1976–1978)
  • Cowboy Action #11 (1956)
  • Creatures on the Loose #30–32 (Man-Wolf) (1974)
  • Crime Can't Win #3 (1951)
  • Crime Cases Comics #5, 9, 12 (1951–1952)
  • Crime Exposed #3–4 (1951)
  • Crime Must Lose #9 (1951)
  • Daredevil #39, 145, Annual #4 (1968–1977)
  • Defenders #57 (1978)
  • Dracula Lives! #13 (1975)
  • Frontier Western #2, 10 (1956–1957)
  • G.I. Tales #4 (1957)
  • Ghost Rider #13–14, 16 (1975–1976)
  • Gunhawk #13, 33–34 (1951–1956)
  • #1–3, 5, 7–12 (1972–1973)
  • The Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #102, 105–106, 218 (1968–1977)
  • Iron Man #5–13, 15–24, 32, 38, 40–46, 48–54, 57–61, 63–72, 78–79, 86–92, 95–106, Annual #4 (1968–1978)
  • Journey into Mystery #11 (1953)
  • Journey into Unknown Worlds #3, 10, 14 (1951–1952)
  • #2 (1954)
  • #2 (1954)
  • Justice #15, 18, 31, 33, 37, 40–41, 48 (1950–1954)
  • Ka-Zar #2–3 (Angel backup stories) (1970–1971)
  • Kent Blake of the Secret Service #5 (1952)
  • Kid Colt Outlaw #16, 24, 32, 34–35, 63 (1951–1956)
  • Lorna the Jungle Girl #6 (1954)
  • Man Comics #1–2 14, 16, 21, 23–24 (1949–1953)
  • Marines in Battle #15, 18, 20 (1956–1957)
  • Marvel Chillers #7 () (1976)
  • #26 (Hercules) (1975)
  • Marvel Super-Heroes #19 (Ka-Zar) (1969)
  • Marvel Tales #114 (1953)
  • Marvel Tales vol. 2 #30 (Angel backup story) (1971)
  • Marvel Treasury Edition #13 (1977)
  • Marvel Two-in-One #6 (1974)
  • Masters of the Universe The Motion Picture #1 (1987)
  • Men in Action #2, 6 (1952)
  • Men's Adventures #12, 24 (1952–1953)
  • Menace #1–2, 5 (1953)
  • Monsters on the Prowl #10 (1971)
  • Monsters Unleashed #3 (1973)
  • My Love #2 (1949)
  • My Love vol. 2 #17 (1972)
  • My Own Romance #10 (1950)
  • Mystery Tales #10, 12, 14 (1953)
  • Our Love Story #20 (1972)
  • Outlaw Fighters #1–3 (1954)
  • Planet of the Apes #1–6 (1974–1975)
  • Power Man #17–20, 24, 26, 28–29, 47 (1974–1977)
  • Private Eye #1–3 (1951)
  • Quick-Trigger Western #17 (1957)
  • Rawhide Kid #14 (1957)
  • Red Warrior #1 (1951)
  • Shanna the She-Devil #1 (1972)
  • Space Squadron #1–3 (1951)
  • Spaceman #5 (1954)
  • Sports Action #7 (1951)
  • Spy Cases #7 (1951)
  • Spy Fighters #1-2 (1951)
  • #1, 12, 14, 18–19, 94, 166 (1951–1968)
  • #41–42, 69–71 (1971–1974)
  • Super-Villain Team-Up #1 (1975)
  • Supernatural Thrillers #6 (Headless Horseman) (1973)
  • Suspense #5–6, 12, 24 (1950–1952)
  • Tales of Justice #57, 61–62 (1955–1956)
  • Tales of Suspense #58 (Watcher); #70–74 (Captain America) (1964–1966)
  • Texas Kid #1, 6 (1951)
  • Tower of Shadows #3 (1970)
  • #11, 45 (1953–1958)
  • War Action #2, 8, 10 (1952–1953)
  • War Adventures #1 (1952)
  • War Comics #22 (1953)
  • Western Outlaws #2, 6, 15 (1954–1956)
  • Western Outlaws and Sheriffs #64, 69–72 (1950–1952)
  • What If ... ? #5 (Captain America) (1977)
  • Wild Western #21, 27, 29, 32, 37 (1952–1954)
  • #7–8 ( The Golden Voyage of Sinbad adaptation) (1974)
  • #43–46 (1968)
  • Young Men #6–7, 21–23 (1950–1953)

Quality Comics
  • Hit Comics #6–8, 18 (1940–1941)
  • National Comics #1–9 (1940–1941)
  • Uncle Sam Quarterly #3–4 (1942)

Tower Comics
  • Dynamo #2–3 (1966–1967)
  • T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #7–8, 10, 13–17, 19 (1966–1968)

Further reading
  • Interview, Comic Book Marketplace #31 (Jan. 1996), pp. 25–33. Gemstone Publishing.
  • Tribute and Interview, *Comic Book Artist Bullpen #1, (Dec. 2003), pp. 4–19. RetroHouse Press

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