| Creator Irv Novick (1916-2004) |
| Profession Penciller |
| Total Entries 23 |
| Articles Irv Novick – Lambiek Comiclopedia Irv Novick – Wikipedia Irv Novick Remembered – Mark Evanier |
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Novick was MLJ’s lead superhero artist, drawing all their major costumed characters at one time or another, including The Hangman and Steel Sterling, until they began cutting back on heroes and increasing their Archie titles around 1946. From ’46 to ’51, he worked on two syndicated strips — Cynthia and The Scarlet Avenger — neither of which achieved wide circulation. He also began working intermittently in advertising but that wasn’t steady so he started drawing for DC, hired by editor Robert Kanigher, who had written many of the stories he’d drawn for MLJ. Kanigher was the DC war editor so Novick became a war artist, his work appearing in Our Army at War and all the DC combat titles, and occasionally in the romance books during the occasional periods when Kanigher worked on them. Kanigher had a reputation for being rough on artists but he loved Novick’s work and, according to Irv, they never had a cross word in all their years of working together. ~ Irv Novick Remembered – Mark Evanier
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