Don Newton (November 12, 1934 – August 19, 1984) was an
American
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comics artist
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. During his career, he worked for a number of comic book publishers including
Charlton Comics
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,
DC Comics
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DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with thei ...
, and
Marvel Comics
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. He is best known for his work on
The Phantom
''The Phantom'' is an American adventure comic strip, first published by Lee Falk in February 1936. The main character, the Phantom, is a fictional costumed crime-fighter who operates from the fictional African country of Bangalla. The charact ...
,
Aquaman
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, and
Batman
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. Newton also drew several
Captain Marvel/
Marvel Family
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stories and was a fan of the character having studied under Captain Marvel co-creator
C. C. Beck
Charles Clarence Beck (June 8, 1910 – November 22, 1989) was an American cartoonist and comic book artist, best known for his work on Captain Marvel (DC Comics), Captain Marvel (today known as Shazam!) at Fawcett Comics and DC Comics.
Early li ...
.
Biography
Newton was born in
St. Charles, Virginia, but after being diagnosed with
asthma
Asthma is a long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs. It is characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and easily triggered bronchospasms. Symptoms include episodes of wheezing, cou ...
at the age of four, the Newton family moved to Arizona. Newton began drawing at a young age, with comic books being a major influence on his early artwork. He was a big fan of
Batman
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and
Daredevil, and an even bigger
Captain Marvel fan.
["Interview With Don Newton", ''The Collector'' #17, Bill G. Wilson, 1969.]
By the mid–1960s, Newton was teaching art in Phoenix and worked part-time as a student art reviewer for the mail order ''"Master Artist's Painting Course."''
Comics fandom
Newton eventually discovered comic book
fandom
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, while searching for a source to purchase old comics. Newton became involved with the Science Fiction and Comics Association (SFCA) and became an artistic staple in the organization's publications. Between 1968 and 1973 he produced almost two dozen covers for the ''
Rocket's Blast Comicollector
''Rocket's Blast Comicollector'' (''RBCC'') was a comics advertising fanzine published from 1964 to 1983. The result of a merger with a similar publication, ''RBCCs purpose was to bring fans together for the purpose of adding to their comic book co ...
'' (''RBCC'').
Newton did not limit himself exclusively to the publications of the SFCA; he also worked for most of the major fanzines during these years. In all Newton’s work appeared in over one hundred fanzines.
Newton did one major strip during this time, which ran for more than a year in the ''RBCC'' called "The Savage Earth". Over a period stretching from 1968 to 1970 the science fiction strip appeared in issues 60–70 of the ''RBCC''.
Issue #65 of the ''RBCC'' sported a Newton "Savage Earth" painting as its cover.
Newton tried for years to leverage his connections in fandom into work at
DC Comics
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DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with thei ...
or
Marvel Comics
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, but he was at a distinct disadvantage living in Arizona. Marvel in particular wanted their artists close at hand. Newton finally set his sights a little lower and sent some sample pages to
Nicola Cuti
Nicola Cuti (October 29, 1944 – February 21, 2020), known as Nick Cuti, was an American artist and comic book writer-editor, science-fiction novelist; he was the co-creator of ''E-Man'' (with artist Joe Staton) and Moonchild, Captain Cosmos, a ...
at
Charlton Comics
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where his first professional comic book work was published.
Charlton Comics
Newton's first work for Charlton appeared in ''
Ghost Manor
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'' #18 (May 1974)
and would work on Charlton horror books for the next year and half. Besides drawing for the Charlton horror comics, Newton also began painting covers for their horror and romance books.
In October 1975 Newton's first issue of ''
The Phantom
''The Phantom'' is an American adventure comic strip, first published by Lee Falk in February 1936. The main character, the Phantom, is a fictional costumed crime-fighter who operates from the fictional African country of Bangalla. The charact ...
'', #67, was published.
Newton would pencil and ink all of his Phantom work and would supply a cover painting for every issue he drew. Newton’s short run on the book featured two classic Newton pieces at Charlton. Issue #70 of ''The Phantom'' stars
Humphrey Bogart,
Lauren Bacall,
Sydney Greenstreet
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,
Peter Lorre
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, and
Claude Rains and is a mixture of ''
Casablanca
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'', ''
The African Queen'', ''
The Maltese Falcon'', and ''
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.''
Newton’s final issue of ''The Phantom'' features the Phantom of 1776 meeting
Benjamin Franklin
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. It has a Phantom cover, the Phantom of 1776, sword in one hand, flintlock pistol in the other in front of a smoky background of the
Declaration of Independence
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and a tattered
13-star American flag.
After Charlton
Newton had always seen Charlton as a stepping-stone to Marvel Comics. While still working for Charlton, Newton worked on an issue of ''
Giant-Size Defenders'', did some small uncredited inking on a few issues of the ''
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu
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'' magazine over
Mike Vosburg
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Mike Vosburg's comics career began in the 1960s, when as a 15-year-old teenager he started ''Mas ...
's penciled artwork, a frontispiece for the ''
Savage Sword of Conan'' and a single painting for
Roy Thomas
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, which years later, became a cover for Thomas' magazine ''
Alter Ego
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''. Newton inked an issue of ''
Ghost Rider
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The first s ...
'' over
's pencils and produced a cover for Marvel's ''
Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction
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The anthology title featured original stories and literary adaptations ...
Annual.''
DC Comics
Newton began his career at DC with ''
DC Special
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'' #28 (July 1977).
Newton contributed the pencils on an Aquaman strip inked by his old friend Dan Adkins. Newton would draw Aquaman off and on for the next three years. That same month saw the release of Newton's first series at DC, ''The
New Gods
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'' #12. Dan Adkins inked most of his work on the New Gods.
It was during his tenure on this strip that Newton left his job as a junior high school art teacher to go work full-time as an artist. In the middle of Newton's run on ''The New Gods'', he and
David Michelinie
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co-created the Star Hunters for DC but Newton dropped the feature after drawing two stories.
One of Newton’s lifelong ambitions was to draw
Captain Marvel and he fulfilled this desire in 1978 when he was signed as the new penciller for the ''Shazam!'' title.
He would draw this strip in its own title, as well as in ''
World's Finest Comics
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'' and ''
Adventure Comics'' until October 1982.
Newton began drawing the Batman character beginning with ''
Batman
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'' #305 (November 1978), and would draw 79 stories featuring Batman or
members of the Batman family during his tenure at DC. Newton and writer
Dennis O'Neil
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co-created the
Maxie Zeus
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character in ''
Detective Comics
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'' #483 (April–May 1979). O'Neil and Newton produced the story "The Vengeance Vow" in ''Detective Comics'' #485 (Aug.–Sept. 1979) in which the original
Batwoman
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is killed by the
League of Assassins
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.
Marvel Comics
In 1979 Newton returned to Marvel. He wanted to draw
Captain America
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, but that title was unavailable at the time and ''
The Avengers'' was the closest Marvel could do to fulfilling that request. Newton took the assignment when he was promised
Joe Rubinstein
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as his permanent inker on the book. Newton finished the pencils for only two issues before returning to DC. Those two issues of ''The Avengers'' became ''Avengers Annual'' #9, half of which was inked by Rubinstein, half by
Jack Abel. In 1981 Don Newton again left DC for Marvel. As was the case the first time, better money was one of the factors that pushed him to Marvel. Marvel had other artists, such as
Val Mayerik
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Val Mayerik was born in Youngstow ...
, call Don to entice him into working at Marvel again. Unlike the previous time, Joe Rubinstein was not part of the deal. ''The Avengers'' #204 featured inks by
Dan Green.
DC again
During the time that Newton was drawing this second attempt at ''The Avengers'' book, he was contacted by
Paul Levitz
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who promised him some additional advertising artwork, should Newton return to DC.
After the ''Avengers'' inking by Green (which he had been unsatisfied with) and again the lack of scheduled work from Marvel, Newton agreed to accept a new contract with DC.
Newton did two issues of ''
Green Lantern
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'' in 1982. Both were
Green Lantern Corps
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stories, one of which contained the first appearance of
Ch'p
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Diego Luna voiced t ...
, the squirrel-like Green Lantern of
H'lven
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. Two years later Newton returned to ''Green Lantern'' in the only DC comics work he inked. In Newton’s obituary,
Dick Giordano
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Early ...
said of this work, "To my mind, Don's final statement was the Green Lantern Corps story he penciled and inked that appeared in ''Green Lantern'' #181. He showed us how to do it right."
He drew the first appearance of
Jason Todd
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in ''
Batman
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'' #357 (March 1983), a character who became the second
Robin.
Newton had always told DC that the only series he would like to draw other than ''Batman'' and ''Captain Marvel'' was ''
All-Star Squadron
The All-Star Squadron is a DC Comics superhero team that debuted in ''Justice League, Justice League of America'' #193 (August 1981) and was created by Roy Thomas, Rich Buckler and Jerry Ordway. Although the team was introduced in the 1980s, its se ...
''. Editor/writer
Roy Thomas
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tapped into that interest by proposing that Newton draw ''
Infinity, Inc.'', featuring the children of the original All-Star characters. The first issue scheduled to contain Newton's art was ''Infinity Inc.'' #11 featuring a five-page framing sequence by Newton which surrounded a story drawn by
George Tuska
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and Mike Machlan. Newton was to begin penciling the entire book with issue #12, but the letters page in issue #11 told of Newton's death. Newton suffered a massive heart attack in his home, after dealing with months of a debilitating throat ailment. He died three days later on August 19, 1984, in a nearby Mesa hospital.
While Newton was in the hospital in a coma, the first three pages of ''Infinity Inc.'' #12 were sent to Thomas. Rubinstein was brought in to ink them and Newton’s Phoenix friend John Clark lettered the pages at Thomas' request. As a final tribute to Newton, Marvel Editor-in-Chief
Jim Shooter
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let Rubinstein out of his contract for a month so that he could ink a fill-in issue Newton had done. It became ''Infinity Inc.'' #13 (April 1985). This was Newton's last published original work.
In 2011, DC published ''Tales of the Batman: Don Newton'', a hardcover collection of Newton's Batman stories.
Death
Newton died on August 19, 1984, after suffering a massive heart attack.
Awards
Newton won the
Comic Fan Art Award
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in 1973 in the category "Favorite Fan Artist".
Bibliography
Comics work (interior pencil art) includes:
Charlton Comics
*''Beyond the Grave'' #17 (1984)
*''
Ghost Manor
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'' #18, 20, 22, 48, 64 (1974–1982)
*''
Ghostly Haunts
''Ghostly Haunts'' was an American horror-suspense anthology comic book series published by Charlton Comics from 1971 to 1978. The book was "hosted" by Winnie the Witch, a " moddish" blue-skinned witch.
''Ghostly Haunts'' was part of a wave of ne ...
'' #42 (1975)
*''
Haunted
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* ''Haunted'' (Armstrong novel), by Kelley Armstrong, 2005
* ''Haunted'' (Cabot novel), by Meg Cabot, 2004
* ''Haunted'' (Palahniuk novel), by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005
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'' #50, 59 (1980–1982)
*''
Many Ghosts of Dr. Graves'' #45, 49 (1974–1975)
*''
Midnight Tales'' #11–14 (1975)
*''
The Phantom
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'' #67–68, 70–71, 73–74 (1975–1977)
*''
Scary Tales
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'' #31 (1982)
DC Comics
*''
Adventure Comics'' (New Gods) #459–460; (Aquaman) #460–461, 464–466; (
Shazam!) #491–492 (1978–1982)
*''
All-Star Squadron
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Annual'' #3 (three pages only) (1984)
*''
Aquaman
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'' #60–63 (1978)
*''
Batman
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'' #305–306, 328, 331, 346, 352–357, 360–372, 374–379; (
Catwoman
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) #332; (
Robin) #337–338; (1978–1985)
*''
Batman Family
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Since Batman's introduction in 1939, the character has accumulated a number of recognizable suppo ...
'' (Robin,
Batgirl,
Man-Bat
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) #13 (1977)
*''
Blackhawk Black Hawk and Blackhawk may refer to:
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'' #266 (1984)
*''
The Brave and the Bold
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'' (Batman and
Red Tornado
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) #153, (Batman and
Doctor Fate
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) #156, (Batman and Man-Bat) #165 (1979–1980)
*''
DC Comics Presents
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'' (
Superman
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and
Green Arrow
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) #54 (1983)
*''
DC Special
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'' (Aquaman) #28 (1977)
*''
DC Special Series
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'' (
Lightray) #10 (1978)
*''
DC Super Stars
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Publication history
The tagline "The Line of DC Super-Stars" wa ...
'' (Star Hunters) #16 (1977)
*''
Detective Comics
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'' (Batman) #480, 483–499, 501–509, 511, 513–516, 518–520, 524, 526, 533, 539; (Robin) #481; (Man-Bat) #481, 485; (Batgirl) #492 (1978–1984)
*''
Ghosts'' #92, 94 (1980)
*''
Green Lantern
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'' vol. 2 (
Green Lantern Corps
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) #148–149, 181 (1982–1984)
*''
House of Mystery
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First serie ...
'' #259, 272 (1978–1979)
*''
Infinity, Inc.'' #11–13 (1985)
*''
Mystery in Space
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'' #117 (1981)
*''
New Gods
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'' #12–14, 16–19 (1977–1978)
*''
Secrets of Haunted House
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The series began in April–May 1975. Like its predecessor '' Secrets of ...
'' #30 (1980)
*''
Shazam!'' #35 (1978)
*''Star Hunters'' #1 (1977)
*''
Time Warp
Time travel is a common theme in fiction, mainly since the late 19th century, and has been depicted in a variety of media, such as literature, television, film, and advertisements.
The concept of time travel by mechanical means was popularize ...
'' #1–5 (1979–1980)
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The Unexpected'' #204 (1980)
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Vigilante
Vigilantism () is the act of preventing, investigating and punishing perceived offenses and crimes without Right, legal authority.
A vigilante (from Spanish, Italian and Portuguese “vigilante”, which means "sentinel" or "watcher") is a pers ...
'' #4 (1984)
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Weird War Tales
''Weird War Tales'' was a war comic book title with supernatural overtones published by DC Comics. It was published from September–October 1971 to June 1983.
Publication history
The original title ran for 12 years and 124 issues. It was ...
'' #82, 122 (1979–1983)
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World's Finest Comics
''World's Finest Comics'' was an American comic book series published by DC Comics from 1941 to 1986. The series was initially titled ''World's Best Comics'' for its first issue; issue #2 (Summer 1941) switched to the more familiar name. Michael ...
'' (Shazam!) #253–270, 272–281; (Green Arrow and
Hawkman) #259; (Aquaman) #262 (1978–1982)
Marvel Comics
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Avengers
Avenger, Avengers, The Avenger, or The Avengers may refer to:
Arts and entertainment In the Marvel Comics universe
* Avengers (comics), a team of superheroes
**Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a central team of protagonist superheroes of ...
'' #204 (1981); ''Annual'' #9 (1979)
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Giant-Size Defenders'' #3 (1975)
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Ghost Rider
Ghost Rider is the name of multiple antiheroes and superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Marvel had previously used the name for a Western character whose name was later changed to Phantom Rider.
The first s ...
'' #23 (1977)
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Iron Man Annual'' #4 (backup story) (1977)
References
External links
The Art of Don Newton fansiteDon Newtonat Mike's Amazing World of Comics
at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
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1934 births
1984 deaths
20th-century American artists
American art educators
American comics artists
Artists from Phoenix, Arizona
Artists from Virginia
DC Comics people
People from Lee County, Virginia