Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955, Paul Kupperberg got his start in comic fandom. He and Paul Levitz produced the comics fanzine The Comic Reader from 1971 to 1973, and Etcetera from 1972 to 1973. In 1975 Kupperberg sold several short horror stories to Charlton Comics, and then a few months later sold a…
Born in 1929, Jon D’Agostino got his comic book start in the 1940s at Timely Comics. In the early 1950s he did work for several different publishers, including Story Comics, Master Publications, and Charlton Comics. D’Agostino continued to work for Charlton on a variety of titles throughout the ’50s and ’60s, though in 1963 he…
Harvey Dent was young, charismatic, idealistic, and driven—at 26 he was the youngest District Attorney Gotham City had ever had, and the press dubbed him “Apollo” for his good lucks and his meteoric rise. Dent’s idealism was also flexible enough that he recognized the good Batman did, even if the Dark Night Detective didn’t always…
Born in Flint, Michigan in 1959, Susan van Camp has always loved art and doodled pictures on all her school notes as a child. Her first commercial work was in roleplaying games, on Steve Jackson’s Car Wars. She worked on Tales from the Aniverse for Arrow Comics in 1984, and then Varcel’s Vixens for Caliber…
Born in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1951, Charles Dana Vess fell in love with comic books and art while still a child—he drew his first full-length comic when he was ten years old. He attended Virginia Commonwealth University and graduated with a BFA in 1974, then went to work as a commercial animator for Candy Apple…
Flying “Johnny” Cloud was a member of the Navajo tribe but little is known about his early life. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at the start of World War II and overcame racial prejudices with his superior skill as a pilot, quickly becoming known as “the Navajo Ace.” When the commander of his…
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1915, Graham Ingels began work early, joining the work force at 14, shortly after his father died. At 16 he began doing art jobs. He married at 20 and entered the Navy at 27 in 1943. After WWII, Ingels worked for Fiction House, Magazine Enterprises, and several other comic book…
Mark Mardon was a petty career criminal whose capture was, ironically, the best thing that ever happened to him. On his way to prison, Mardon escaped and fled to the home of his brother Clyde. Clyde was a scientist and had just created a wand that could control weather in its immediate vicinity. The brothers…
Salu Digby was born in the 30th century—though she was born on Earth, her parents are actually from the planet Imsk. Like all her people, Salu had the power to shrink herself to microscopic size. As a teenager she heard about the Legion of Super-Heroes and decided to seek them out. She applied for membership…
Born in 1958, Scott Rosema started scribbling when he was only four years old. By his teens he knew he wanted to get into comic books and set himself to developing his art skills. He began freelancing in 1979, right after graduating from the Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, and worked…
Carter Hall was an American archaeologist with a particular interest in Egyptian history and relics. He was on a dig in 1940 when he discovered an ancient knife that the priest Hath-Set had used to murder Prince Khufu and his royal consort Chay-ara. Upon touching the knife Hall gained the memories of Khufu, discovering that…
Carter Hall was an American archaeologist with a particular interest in Egyptian history and relics. He was on a dig in 1940 when he discovered an ancient knife that the priest Hath-Set had used to murder Prince Khufu and his royal consort Chay-ara. Upon touching the knife Hall gained the memories of Khufu, discovering that…
