Marcia Louise Snyder (sometimes spelled "Snider") was a

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artist and newspaper cartoonist who worked for the Binder Studio,

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, and

Fiction House Fiction House was an American publisher of pulp magazines and comic books that existed from the 1920s to the 1950s. It was founded by John B. "Jack" Kelly and John W. Glenister.Saunders, David"JACK BYRNE (1902-1972),"Field Guide to Wild American ...

during the

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Biography

Snyder was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan on May 13, 1907. She graduated from Western Normal High School in 1925. Around the time she started working for Timely, she lived in

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with her girlfriend, Mickey.Interview with Vince Fago, ''Alter-Ego Magazine''. Vol. 3 no. 11, November 2001. p. 13 At Fiction House, a publisher known for its female adventure heroes, she worked on such titles as "Camilla," a

jungle girl A jungle girl (so-called, but usually adult woman) is an archetype or stock character, often used in popular fiction, of a female adventurer, superhero or even a damsel in distress living in a jungle or rainforest setting. An alternate depiction i ...

feature in ''Jungle Comics''. Robbins, Trina ''A Century of Women Cartoonists''. Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1993. pp. 78, 81 In the late '70s, she "assisted" on the police comic ''

Kerry Drake ''Kerry Drake'' is the title of a comic strip created for Publishers Syndicate by Alfred Andriola as artist and Allen Saunders as uncredited writer. It debuted on Monday, October 4, 1943, replacing Norman Marsh's ''Dan Dunn'', and was syndica ...

''. What exactly that role entailed is unclear, though it is known that the original and credited creator was relying on ghostwriters and artists at that point.Collector's Society, A Month in the Life of the Comics
/ref> Snyder is rumored to have married later in life."David Hajdu: BSS #207,"
The Bat Segundo Show (May 9, 2008). She died on February 27, 1976, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Marcia Snyder entry
Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999 1907 births 1976 deaths 20th-century American women artists American female comics artists Golden Age comics creators LGBT comics creators People from Kalamazoo, Michigan Artists from Michigan {{US-comics-artist-stub