Ken Battefield (1905–1967) was a prolific

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, American Eagle, The Scarab, Captain Future, and many others. In the latter days of working with that company he was hired to produce large amounts of work which was then "punched" up by Rafael Astarita and

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. Through the Chessler, Funnies Inc.,

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, and Benjamin W. Sangor studios, as well as freelance, he also did work for Ace Periodicals,

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, Ajax-Farrell,

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, Street and Smith, and more. Among Battefield's other projects was the January 1958 revised edition of ''Classics Illustrated'' #54, ''The Man in the Iron Mask''. While working for the Chesler Shop, Battefield met a young Carmine Infantino in a coffee shop, and subsequently got him his first comics job in that studio.

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1967 deaths Golden Age comics creators 1905 births {{US-comics-artist-stub