Wayne Boring

Wayne Boring

Infobox Comics creator


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birthdate = birth date|1905|6|5|mf=y
location = Minnesota
deathdate = February 1987 (aged 81)
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nationality = American
area = Penciller
alias = Jack Harmon
notable works = Superman
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Wayne Boring (born June 5 1905, Minnesota; died February, 1987, Pompano Beach, Florida)While some sources give 1916 as a birth year, the official Boring family site and the [http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/ Social Security Death Index] give 1905.] was an American comic book artist best known for his work on Superman from the late 1940s to 1950s. He occasionally used the pseudonym "Jack Harmon".

Biography

Early life and career

Boring attended the Minnesota School of Art and the Chicago Art Institute. In 1937, he began "ghosting" (drawing for hire without credit) on such comic-book features as Slam Bradley and Doctor Occult for the Jerry Siegel-Joe Shuster studio. In 1938, Siegel and Shuster's character Superman was published in "Action Comics" #1, for the DC Comics predecessor National Allied Publications , and Boring became a ghost on the soon spun-off Superman comic strip, eventually becoming the credited artist.

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In 1942, the by-then-named National Comics hired Boring as a staff artist, teaming him as penciler the following year with inker Stan Kaye. The two would work together for nearly 20 years. In 1948, following Siegel and Shuster's departure from the company over a Superman rights lawsuit, Mort Weisinger, new editor of the Superman line, brought in Boring as well as Al Plastino and Curt Swan, with Win Mortimer taking over the newspaper comic strip.

Boring became the primary Superman comic-book penciler through the 1950s. Swan succeeded him the following decade, though Boring returned for sporadic guest appearances in the early '60s and then again in late 1966 and early 1967.

Boring was let go from DC in 1967, along with other artists from the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books, including George Papp and Sheldon Moldoff. From 1968-72, Boring ghosted backgrounds for Hal Foster's acclaimed "Prince Valiant" Sunday comic strip, and took over the art on writer Sam Leff's 1961-71 United Feature Syndicate strip "Davy Jones". Afterward, Boring did a small amount of work on Marvel Comics' "Captain Marvel", then left the field to semi-retire as a bank security guard.

Boring died of a heart attack, following a brief comeback announced in his last published work, penciling a Golden Age Superman story written by Roy Thomas and inked by Jerry Ordway in "Secret Origins" #1 (April 1986).

Quotes

Michael Vance: "Comics legend Wayne Boring played a major role in visually defining the most well known super-hero in the world during the peak of Superman's popularity". [ [http://www.starland.com/sus/2000/sus001213.htm Starland.com: Suspended Animation (column of Dec. 13, 2000): "Comics Legend Wayne Boring", by Michael Vance] ]

Notes

References

* [http://www.wayneboring.com Wayne Boring.com]
* [http://www.comics.org Grand Comics Database]
* [http://www.comicstripfan.com/Newspaper/DavyJones/DavyJones.htm Comic Strip Fan: Davy Jones]


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