Jesse Marsh

Jesse Marsh (July 27, 1907 - April 28, 1966) was a comic book and animation artist. His main claim to fame is his work on the early Tarzan and related books for Western Publishing that saw print through Dell Comics and later Gold Key Comics. He was the first artist to produce original Tarzan comic books. Up to that time, all Tarzan comics were reprints from the newspaper strips. He also worked on the Gene Autry comic for many years.

Prior to working for Western, he had worked for the Walt Disney Company, doing animation work for Make Mine Music and some Pluto.

He would turn over Tarzan to Russ Manning in 1965 due to failing health.

In 2009, Dark Horse Comics has announced an archive reprint series of his work on Tarzan entitled 'Tarzan - The Jesse Marsh Years'.

Further reading

Panels #2 (1981) contains a tribute and analysis of Marsh's work by Alex Toth.

Batmania #1 (1964) contains Russ Manning's analysis of Marsh's style. It was reprinted in Sense of Wonder #12 (1972).

External links

• Lambiek page on Marsh

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Name	Marsh, Jesse
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Date of birth	July 27, 1907
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Date of death	April 28, 1966
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