James Winslow "Win" Mortimer (May 1, 1919 – January 11, 1998) was a comic book and comic strip artist best known as one of the major illustrators of the DC Comics superhero Superman. He additionally drew for Marvel Comics, Gold Key, and other publishers.
Mortimer was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Trained as an artist by his father, who worked for a lithography company, and at the Art Students League of New York, Win Mortimer found work as an...
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James Winslow "Win" Mortimer (May 1, 1919 – January 11, 1998) was a comic book and comic strip artist best known as one of the major illustrators of the DC Comics superhero Superman. He additionally drew for Marvel Comics, Gold Key, and other publishers.
Mortimer was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Trained as an artist by his father, who worked for a lithography company, and at the Art Students League of New York, Win Mortimer found work as an illustrator after a short stint in the Canadian Army during World War II. Discharged in 1943, Mortimer found work designing posters.
Mortimer began working for DC Comics in 1945 and quickly became a cover artist for comics featuring Superman, Superboy and Batman. His first known comics work is as the uncredited penciler and inker of the 12-page lead Batman story, "The Batman Goes Broke" by writer Don Cameron, in Detective Comics #105 (Nov. 1945).
He succeeded Wayne Boring on the Superman newspaper strip in 1949, leaving it in 1956 to create...
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