Joseph Wirt Tillotson (1905–1959) was a pulp

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and

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who used the name Robert Fuqua in his works.

Biography

Joseph Wirt Tillotson was born January 30, 1905, in Greenville, Mississippi to parents William Wirt Tillotson and Belle Fuqua Oursler. Between 1938 and 1951, Tillotson painted an estimated 80 covers for the pulp magazine '' Amazing Stories''. Between 1949 and the late 1950s, he illustrated stories for ''Our Bible in Pictures'' published by

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/ref> He married Marian Tillotson, a sociology professor at the University of Chicago. They had no children. Tillotson died of

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on September 1, 1959.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tillotson, Joseph Wirt American magazine illustrators 1905 births 1959 deaths Golden Age comics creators American comics artists