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SOLD ON: Thursday, 06/14/2018 12:07 PM
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PUBLISHER: Magazine Enterprises
COMMENTS: crm/ow pgs
Dick Ayers cvr/art; origin of the Ghost Rider
Second City Collection
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crm/ow pgs
Dick Ayers cvr/art; origin of the Ghost Rider
Second City Collection
From the estate of a private collector.
Artist Information
Richard "Dick" Ayers was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of the main inkers during the late-1950's and 1960's Silver Age of Comics, including some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' including Jack Kirby's The Fantastic Four. He is the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, drawing it for a 10-year run, and he co-created Magazine Enterprises' 1950s Western-horror character the Ghost Rider, a version of which he would draw for Marvel in the 1960s. His career would span 7 decades until his death in 2014.