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Sheldon "Shelly" Moldoff (born April 14, 1920, New York City, New York) is an American comic book...

Sheldon "Shelly" Moldoff (born April 14, 1920, New York City, New York) is an American comic book artist best known for co-creating such DC Comics characters as Hawkgirl and Poison Ivy, and as one of Bob Kane's primary "ghost artists" (uncredited collaborators) on the superhero Batman. He is not to be confused with fellow Golden Age comics professional Sheldon Mayer. Born in Manhattan but mostly raised in The Bronx, Sheldon Moldoff has two brothers, Sonny and Stan Moldoff. He sold his first cartoon drawing at age 17. "My first work in comic books was doing filler pages for Vincent Sullivan, who was the editor at National Periodicals", one of the three companies, with Detective Comics Inc. and All-American Comics, that eventually merged to form the modern-day DC Comics. Moldoff's debut was a sports filler that appeared on the inside back cover of the landmark Action Comics #1 (June 1938), the comic book that introduced Superman. Moldoff did military service in World War II. During the late-1930s and 1940s Golden Age of comic books, Moldoff became a prolific cover artist for the future DC Comics. His notable covers include issue #16 (July 1940) of All-American's flagship title