Dick Ayers
Richard Bache Dick Ayers was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirbys inkers during the late1950s and 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comics, including on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics The Fantastic Four. He is the signature penciler of Marvels World War II comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, drawing it for a 10year run, and he cocreated Magazine Enterprises 1950s Westernhorror character the Ghost Rider, a version of which he would draw for Marvel in the 1960s.
Ayers was born April 28, 1924 in Ossining, New York, the son of John Bache Ayers and Gladys Minnerly Ayers. He was in the 13th generation, he said, of the Ayers family that had settled in Newbury, Massachusetts in 1635. He 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.
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