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Rudolph E. "Rudy" Lapick Social Security Death Index listing for Lapick, Rudolph E., Social Security Number 119-16-8993. Note: Gives date of death as February 28; however, a death notice ran online February 27 at Evanier, P.O.V. Online (see). (17 November 1926"United States Social Security Death Index,"
: accessed 01 Mar 2013), Rudolph E Lapick, 28 February 2004. – 27 February 2004) was an American comic book artist who worked as an inker for Archie Comics for many years. He was nominated for a Shazam Award in 1974 for Best Inker (humor).
Lapick became a staff inker at Timely Comics, the 1940s forerunner of Marvel Comics. In the 1950s, his work included issues of G.I. Joe for Ziff-Davis Comics. Rudy LaPick at the Grand Comics Database He was Dan DeCarlo's primary inker for the majority of DeCarlo's career both at Timely and for decades at Archie.
Lapick maintained a long friendship with fellow Timely/Atlas artist Gene Colan, dating to their working together in the Timely art room starting in 1946. Almost five decades later, he inked some of Colan's late-career work at Archie Comics.
He was living in Yonkers at the time of his death.
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