Marvin Stein

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Marvin Stein (February 11, 1925 – February 11, 2010)^[1]^[2] was an American comic book artist, who also worked in animation, advertising, illustration and television broadcast graphics.

He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a sign painter. Stein graduated from Pratt Institute, and went to work for the Chesler Studio, which supplied comic stories and art to the comic book industry. He worked on Captain Valiant for Croyden Publications between 1944 and 1946 and the Funnyman daily and Sunday syndicated strip and Superboy^[3] and Boy Commandoes for National Comics/DC. Stein joined the Simon & Kirby Studio and worked on myriad titles, Black Magic, Headline, Justice Traps the Guilty, Young Love and Young Romance,^[4] while freelancing for several other publishers, Atlas, Feature, Prize, Ziff Davis. In 1958, he left comics to work in advertising and broadcast news graphics. From 1964 to 1969, he illustrated the syndicated McGurk's Mob with Bernard Wexler for Newsday. Stein also worked illustrating children's books.

References

↑ "Marvin Stein Clomic Book illustrator Dies at 85". Newsday.
↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JGTV-WX9 : accessed 04 Mar 2013), Marvin Stein, 11 February 2010.
↑ "Superboy".
↑ "Simon and Kirby". Jack Kirby Museum.

Persondata
Name	Stein, Marvin
Alternative names
Short description	Comics artist
Date of birth	February 11, 1925
Place of birth	Brooklyn, New York
Date of death	February 11, 2010
Place of death

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