Paul Norris
| Paul Norris | |
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| Born | Paul Leroy Norris April 26, 1914 Greenville, Ohio, United States |
| Died | November 5, 2007 (aged 93) Oceanside, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Inker |
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Notable works
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Aquaman, Brick Bradford |
Paul Leroy Norris (April 28, 1914 – November 5, 2007) was an American comic book artist best known as co-creator of the DC Comics superhero Aquaman, and for a 35-year run as artist of the newspaper comic strip Brick Bradford.
Paul Norris was born in Greenville, Ohio. Beginning 1934, during the Great Depression, he spent two years at Midland Lutheran College in Fremont, Nebraska at the behest of his cousin, Dr. Emerson Reck, a journalism professor and director of the school's news bureau. Self-described as having been "drawing pictures from the first time I could hold a pencil," Norris became art director of The Warrior, the college yearbook, and also performed in plays, served as president of the campus YMCA, and painted signs for businesses.
After two years, Norris left college in an aborted attempt to pursue a career as comic strip cartoonist. He recalled in 2006,
Norris worked on his grandmother's farm before obtaining a job at an electric-motor assembly plant in Dayton, Ohio. He also enrolled at the Dayton Art Institute School, where met his wife of 61 years, Ann, whom he married in 1939. He went on to become an illustrator and cartoonist for the Dayton Daily News.
In 1940, Norris and his wife moved to New York City, New York, where he created the features "Power Nelson, Futureman", and "Yank & Doodle" for the comic-book publisher Prize Publications. Historians tentatively identify Norris' comic-book debut as penciling and inking the cover of Prize Publications' Prize Comics #6 (Aug. 1940), with his first confirmed credit the Power Nelson story "Introducing Gene West" two issues later. Norris' first confirmed credit for DC Comics (then National Comics) is the story "The Sandman at Sea", starring DC's original Sandman, Wesley Dodds, in Adventure Comics #65 (Aug. 1941). Norris and writer Mort Weisinger revamped that character in superhero attire and introduced sidekick Sandy the Golden Boy in issue #69 (Dec. 1941).
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