Richard "Dick" Ayers (born April 28, 1924) is an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the late-1950s and 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comics, including on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four, and as the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos.
Ayers was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hal...
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Richard "Dick" Ayers (born April 28, 1924) is an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the late-1950s and 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comics, including on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four, and as the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos.
Ayers was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2007.
Born in Ossining, New York, the son of John Bache Ayers and Gladys Minnerly Ayers Ayers published his first comic strip, Radio Ray, in the military newspaper Radio Post, in 1942 while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Ayers entered the comic book field in 1947. In a 2005 interview, Ayers recalled his start in the industry, saying, "It was [Superman co-creator] Joe [Shuster] who sent me to [editor] Vin Sullivan of Magazine Enterprises. Joe had me pencil some of his Funnyman stories after seeing my drawings at...
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