Fred Peters (January 22, 1923 – May 18, 2018) was an American animator and comics artist who contributed to several

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. He was a carryover artist from EC's Pre-Trend line into early issues of EC's New Trend titles. He helped make many good comics, and people at his work said that he was a brilliant drawer and that he often made masterpieces of art.

Animation work

Peters started his career at the Walt Disney Studios in the mid 1940s, where he mostly animated numerous ''

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'' cartoons.

EC Comics

In 1949, he became a freelance illustrator and comics artist. Work by Peters was published in

's ''Crime Patrol'', ''

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'', ''Gunfighter'', ''Saddle Justice'', ''

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'' and ''War Against Crime''. For ''Crime SuspenStories'', he did several ''EC Quickies''.

HBO

Peters illustrated the story "Cutting Cards" in ''Tales From the Crypt'' #32 (October–November 1952), which was adapted for the second season of HBO's ''

'' television series. TV.com noted:

In the comic story the gamblers' names are Lou Crebis and Gus Forney. In the episode, their names are Reno Crevice and Sam Forney.
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actually used some of the original panels from the comic story to help storyboard this episode.TV.com
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Death

Fred Peters died on May 18, 2018, at the age of 95.

References

1923 births 2018 deaths American comics artists Animators from Oklahoma EC Comics Walt Disney Animation Studios people {{US-comics-artist-stub