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, Roy he emigrated to the United States where he studied at the
School of Industrial Art
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and Pratt Institute. He was a co-founder of a museum of Native American and Eskimo art.
Early work
Roy got his first job in comics in 1940, as an assistant to ''Sub-Mariner'' artist
Bill Everett
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. At
Timely Comics
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, the 1940s forerunner of
Marvel Comics
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, he drew the only appearance of the superhero the Young Avenger, in '' U.S.A. Comics'' #1 (Aug. 1941), under the pseudonym Michael Robard. This story was previously incorrectly ascribed to
Howard Purcell
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Roy is best known for his work on comic strips. His first strip, for the
New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
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, was an adaptation of the
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'' for Columbia Features in the 1950s, and worked as a ghost artist for'' Flash Gordon.''
In 1964, he created his Indian character
Akwas
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in a Sunday strip by the same name (also for Columbia Features).
Screaming Eagle
Roy's final work was a hardcover graphic novel, ''Screaming Eagle'', published posthumously in 1999 by Discovery Comics.