Marvin Stein (February 11, 1925 – February 11, 2010)["United States Social Security Death Index,"
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: accessed 04 Mar 2013), Marvin Stein, 11 February 2010. was an American comic book artist who also worked in animation, advertising, illustration and television broadcast graphics.
Biography
Stein was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a sign painter. Stein graduated from the
Pratt Institute, and went to work for the Chesler Studio, which supplied comic stories and art to the comic book industry. Stein worked on
Captain Valiant for Croyden Publications between 1944 and 1946, and the
Funnyman daily and Sunday syndicated strip, and
Superboy and
Boy Commandoes for
DC Comics/DC. Stein joined the
Joe Simon &
Jack Kirby Studio and worked on myriad titles —
Black Magic,
Headline,
Justice Traps the Guilty,
Young Love and
Young Romance — while freelancing for several other publishers, including Atlas,
Feature Comics,
Prize Comics, and
Ziff Davis.
In 1958, he left comics to work in advertising and broadcast news graphics. From 1965 to 1969, he illustrated the syndicated McGurk's Mob with Bud Wexler for Newsday. Stein also worked illustrating children's books.
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