Luis "Louis" Cazeneuve (August 18, 1908 – August 1977) was an
Argentine-born
American
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comic-book artist.
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Marvel Comics
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character
Red Raven, and for his prolific work on the
DC Comics
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characters
Aquaman
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,
Shining Knight
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, the
Boy Commandos
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and others during the 1940s period fans and historians call the
Golden Age of Comic Books.
His brother,
Arturo "Arthur" Cazeneuve (1919–1992), was also a Golden Age comic-book artist, and became an illustrator and assistant
art director for the overseas edition of ''
Time
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'' magazine in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Biography
Early life and career
Louis Cazeneuve, in his native
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and under his given name Luis Cazeneuve, drew one of his country's first
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comic strips, ''Quique, el Niño Pirata'' ("Quique, the Pirate Boy"), which appeared both daily and Sunday in the
newspaper
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''El Mundo'', beginning in 1931
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October 18, 2011. or 1934 (accounts differ). Cazeneuve also drew the adventure strips ''Aventuras de Caza del Pibe Palito'' ("Pibe Palito's Hunting Adventures") and ''Aventuras de Dos Argentinos en un País Salvaje'' ("Adventures of Two Argentines in a Wild Country") before emigrating to the United States in 1939.
He worked briefly at
Eisner & Iger
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, one of the primary comic-book "packagers" that supplied outsourced comics on demand for publishers at the dawn of the new
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. Shortly thereafter, Cazeneuve, with his artist brother Arthur and Eisner & Iger colleague
Pierce Rice, formed a studio that produced freelance art for a number of comics companies.
Cazeneuve's earliest work includes
Fox Feature Syndicate's 1940 comic strip ''
Blue Beetle
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'', succeeding
Jack Kirby
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under the
house name Charles Nicholas. With writer
Joe Simon, editor-in-chief of
Marvel Comics
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predecessor
Timely Comics
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, he co-created the character
Red Raven — the first Timely/Marvel character to star in his own self-titled series, predating by several months ''
Captain America Comics'' #1 (March 1941).
From 1940 to 1942, Cazeneuve contributed to a number of Fox titles, drawing the stories introducing the superheroic characters
Samson
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(''Samson'' #1, Fall 1940); the Eagle (''
Weird Comics
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''Weird Comics characters included Birdman, Sorceress of Zoom, The Dart, Thor, Dynamite Thor, The Eagle, Dynamo
"Dynamo Electric Machine" (end view, partly ...
'' #8, Nov. 1940); the Banshee (''
Fantastic Comics
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'' #21, Aug. 1941); and U.S. Jones (''
Wonderworld Comics'' #28, Aug. 1941), as well as the villainous protagonist Nagana, Queen of Evil (''Fantastic Comics'' #22, Sept. 1941). Other Fox features for which he either supplied full art or did inking over penciler Pierce Rice, include "Captain Savage, Sea Rover", "Chen Chang" (in ''
Mystery Men Comics''), "D-13", "The Flame", "The Green Mask" (under the
house name Walter Frame), and "Marga the Panther Woman".
Also during this time he did occasional work for
Centaur Publications
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(the feature "Man of War"),
Fawcett Comics
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("Atom Blake"),
Holyoke Publications ("Blue Beetle"),
Lev Gleason Publications
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("Dickie Dean"), and
Harvey Comics
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, ( "Dr. Miracle", "Duke O'Dowd", "
Robin Hood
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", and, in ''
Pocket Comics'', "Phantom Sphinx").
One source attributes the Fox character Spider Queen to the Cazeneuve brothers under the joint
pseudonym
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Elsa Lesau.
[Per th]
Spider Queen entry
in ''The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe'': "Created by Elsa Lesau (believed to be a pseudonym for Louis and Arturo Cazeneuve) for Fox Features icSyndicate; adapted for the Marvel
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Universe by Roy Thomas, Dave Hoover
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Early life
...
, and Brian Garvey. Roy Thomas had originally intended he flashback, World War II supervillain teamBattle-Axis to consist of minor wartime heroes of Timely Comics
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(predecessor of Marvel), but ditorMark Gruenwald
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nixed that idea, and super-heroes from now-defunct wartime publishers were used instead...."
DC Comics and Aquaman
It was at National Comics, the future
DC Comics
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, that Cazeneuve did his most popular and prolific work during the Golden Age of Comics. He began on minor features, including "Bart Regan, Spy", in ''
Detective Comics'' #61-63, 65-66, (March–May, July-Aug. 1942); "Three Aces", in ''
Action Comics
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'' #47-63 (April 1942 - Aug. 1943); "TNT and Dyna-Mite", in ''
Star Spangled Comics
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'' #10-23 (July 1942 - Aug. 1943); and "Radio Squad", in ''
More Fun Comics
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'' #81-82 (July - Aug. 1942).
Cazeneuve then began the two features for which he became best known. He succeeded creator
on the modern-day
Arthurian
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feature "
Shining Knight
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", drawing the feature for nearly three years in ''
Adventure Comics'' #73-101 (April 1942 - Jan. 1945). More prominently, he became the second artist of the enduring character
Aquaman
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, succeeding artist co-creator
Paul Norris
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to become the longest-running artist of the undersea hero's Golden Age adventures. Cazeneuve debuted on "Aquaman" in ''More Fun Comics'' #82 (Aug. 1942), and continued with the feature through issue #107 (Feb. 1946), and its subsequent move to ''Adventure Comics'' #103-117, 119-120, 124 (April 1946 - June 1947, Aug.-Sept. 1947, Jan. 1948).
He additionally drew the wartime "kid gang" feature "
Boy Commandos
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" in ''
World's Finest Comics
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'' #14-20 (Summer 1944 - Winter 1945/46), and penciled it in #24 (inked by
George Klein). He inked two of their stories by co-creator and writer-penciler
Jack Kirby
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in #21 (June 1947), and inked
Curt Swan in #31 (Feb. 1949).
Other DC characters on which Cazeneuve worked during the Golden Age include the
Crimson Avenger
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,
Green Arrow, the
Seven Soldiers of Victory
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, and the
Old West
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gunslinger
Vigilante
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. One generally authoritative source states that Cazeneuve was
ghost-artist for
Jack Kirby
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on some stories in ''Boy Commandos'' #6-7 (Spring-Summer 1944).
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. Cazeneuve's other mid- to late Golden Age work included
Feature Comics
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T ...
' "Yank and Doodle", and
Harvey Comics
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' "Boy Heroes", "Captain Freedom", and "
Shock Gibson".
His last known credited DC Comics work is penciling and inking the six-page Aquaman story "The Sea Serpent" in ''Adventure Comics'' #124 (Jan. 1948). He then worked primarily for
Fawcett Comics
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, starting with ''
Whiz Comics
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'' #103 (Nov. 1948). Cazeneuve's last known credited comics work is penciling and inking the seven-page
Western
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feature "Golden Arrow" in ''Whiz Comics'' #107 (March 1949).
Later life
At the time of his death he was living in the
Jackson Heights /
Flushing
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area of the
New York City
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borough of
Queens
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.
References
External links
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Bails, Jerry, and Hames Ware
Louis Cazeneuveat ''Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999''.
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Comicartville Library, 2004
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American comics artists
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1908 births
1977 deaths
Argentine emigrants to the United States