Sidney Check, also known as Sid Check, (August 2, 1930 – June 19, 2002) was an American comic book artist best known for his stories in

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. __NOTOC__ Sidney Charles Check was born on August 2, 1930, in Newark, New Jersey. His parents Abraham Check and Ida Applebaum-Check were Polish immigrants who had come to the United States in 1926. By 1940 he was living in Coney Island, Brooklyn where he befriended

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with whom he would collaborate in comic books a decade later. In 1948 Check graduated from the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan, and the following year he broke into comic books, working with

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, as well as on solo assignments. Sid Check was often compared to

because of a stylistic resemblance. His work appeared in EC's New Trend titles: ''

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'', ''

The Haunt of Fear ''The Haunt of Fear'' was an American bi-monthly horror comic anthology series published by EC Comics, starting in 1950. Along with '' Tales from the Crypt'' and '' The Vault of Horror'', it formed a trifecta of popular EC horror anthologies. ''T ...

'', '' The Vault of Horror'' and '' Weird Science''. He drew for several

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series, including ''Weird Wonder Tales'', ''Battle Action'', ''Journey into Unknown Worlds''. For Magazine Enterprises he contributed to ''White Indian''. He also drew for ''

Classics Illustrated ''Classics Illustrated'' is an American comic book/magazine series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as ''Les Misérables'', '' Moby-Dick'', ''Hamlet'', and '' The Iliad''. Created by Albert Kanter, the series began publication ...

'' and for Harvey Comics' ''Tomb of Terror''.Lambiek
/ref> Apocolytes's ''World of Comics'' commented: When Check left comic books in 1958 he took up work with the United States Postal Service, though he drew a few stories in the early 1970s for DC Comics' war titles, and spot illustrations for ''

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'' during the mid-1970s. He died on June 19, 2002, in Coney Island.

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