William Blake "Bill" Everett (May 18, 1917, Cambridge, Massachusetts – February 27, 1973) was a comic book writer-artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner and co-creating Daredevil for Marvel Comics. He was a descendant of the poet William Blake and of Richard Everett, founder of Dedham, Massachusetts.
William Everett was born May 18, 1917 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Everett, a fabulist who spun fanciful stories of his youth, claimed...
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William Blake "Bill" Everett (May 18, 1917, Cambridge, Massachusetts – February 27, 1973) was a comic book writer-artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner and co-creating Daredevil for Marvel Comics. He was a descendant of the poet William Blake and of Richard Everett, founder of Dedham, Massachusetts.
William Everett was born May 18, 1917 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Everett, a fabulist who spun fanciful stories of his youth, claimed at various points to have graduated from high school in Arizona, or instead to have joined the U.S. Merchant Marine from ages 15 to 17, among other tales. In actuality, he was born at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Watertown, Massachusetts, with his parents Robert Maxwell Everett and Elaine Grace Brown Everett, and his sister Elizabeth, born in 1915. His 300-year-old New England family included Everett, Massachusetts' namesake, Edward Everett, who after serving as president of Harvard University became...
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