Dennis Neville was an American comic book artist during the

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, who co-created the

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characters

Hawkman Hawkman is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Dennis Neville, the original Hawkman first appeared in ''Flash Comics'' #1, published by All-American ...

, his lover

Hawkgirl Hawkgirl is the name of several superheroines appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The original Hawkgirl, Shiera Sanders Hall, was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Dennis Neville, and first appeared in ''Flash Comics' ...

, and nemesis

Hath-Set Hath-Set is a DC Comics supervillain created by Gardner Fox and Dennis Neville. The character is the archenemy of Hawkman and Hawkgirl. Publication history Hath-Set first appeared in ''Flash Comics'' #1 and was created by Gardner Fox and Denn ...

. Although not one of the big names in early comics, Neville did work on some important comics features from that era.

Career

Neville worked for

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(later known as

) in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of

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's early assistants on the ''

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'' daily comic strip during that time, as well as on the detective series ''

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''. Neville was the artist for the original versions of

, and

for DC Comics when they all first appeared in ''

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'' #1 in 1940. Hawkman's first three adventures were drawn by Neville, modeled after the ''Hawkmen'' characters from the ''

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'' comic strip by

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. Neville soon left ''Hawkman'', being replaced after three issues by

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and then later by

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. (Kubert slightly redesigned Hawkman's mask in ''

'' #85 uly 1947and then, one year later, replaced the winged-hawk-like mask to a much simpler yellow cowl in ''Flash Comics'' #98 ug 1948) After leaving ''Hawkman'', Neville returned to the ''Superman'' comic. Most of his comics work was done in the period 1940–1946; he returned to the industry in c. 1977 when he worked on the ''

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'' syndicated

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strip.

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