Marvin Stein (February 11, 1925 – February 11, 2010) was an American comic book artist who also worked in

animation Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...

, advertising, illustration and television broadcast graphics.

Biography

Stein was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a sign painter. Stein graduated from the

Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...

, and went to work for the Chesler Studio, which supplied comic stories and art to the comic book industry. Stein worked on ''Captain Valiant'' for Croyden Publications between 1944 and 1946, and the ''Funnyman'' daily and Sunday syndicated strip, and '' Superboy'' and ''Boy Commandoes'' for National Comics/DC. Stein joined the Simon & Kirby Studio and worked on myriad titles — '' Black Magic'', '' Headline'', ''

Justice Traps the Guilty ''Justice Traps the Guilty'' was an American comic book title, a publication of the crime comics genre created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby and published by Prize Comics from 1947 to 1958. It followed the successful revamping of ''Headline Comics ...

'', '' Young Love'' and '' Young Romance'' — while freelancing for several other publishers, including Atlas, Feature Comics, Prize Comics, and Ziff Davis. In 1958, he left comics to work in advertising and broadcast news graphics. From 1965 to 1969, he illustrated the syndicated ''McGurk's Mob'' with Bud Wexler for ''

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''. Stein also worked illustrating children's books.

References

External links

Lambiek Comiclopedia article.
1925 births 2010 deaths American comics artists American animators American illustrators People from Brooklyn {{US-comics-artist-stub