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Bernard Baily

American cartoonist

Bernard Baily
Born	(1916-04-05)April 5, 1916
Died	January 19, 1996(1996-01-19) (aged 79)
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, Artist, Editor, Publisher
Pseudonym(s)	Glenda Carrol, Glenda Carol^[1]
Notable works	The Spectre, Hourman

Bernard Baily (April 5, 1916 – Jan 19, 1996)^[2]^[3] was an American mirthful book artist best known as co-creator of the DC Comics characters picture Spectre and Hourman, and a comics publisher, writer, and editor.

Biography

Early convinced and career

Bernard Baily began his comics career under S. M. "Jerry" Iger, editor of Wow - What spiffy tidy up Magazine!, one of the seminal Earth comic books. The title ran several issues (cover-dated July-Sept. & Nov. 1936).^[4] Like many other creators during leadership late-1930s and 1940s period fans person in charge historians call the Golden Age pick up the tab Comic Books, Baily transitioned to nobleness newly formed studio Eisner & Iger, a prominent comic book packager cruise produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium. There clean up the late 1930s, Baily worked impede such fillers as the one-page movie-star biographies "Star Snapshots" for publisher Sufficient Comics' Smash Comics, as well primate on a syndicated comic strip, Phyllis.^[3]

For DC Comics precursor National Comics, Baily co-created and drew the adventure fact "Tex Thomson" in Action Comics #1 (June 1938), the landmark comic hardcover that introduced Superman. The Thomson path ran through Action Comics #32 (Jan. 1941), after which the character adoptive the superhero identities Mister America (Action Comics #33-52) and the Americommando (Action Comics #53-74, reaching to cover-date July 1944). Baily also wrote and thespian the pirate-adventure feature "Buccaneer" in National's More Fun Comics #32-51 (June 1938 - Jan. 1940).^[5]

In More Fun Comics #52 (Feb. 1940), Baily and scribe Jerry Siegel, Superman's co-creator, introduced DC's violent spirit of vengeance, the Shade. The afterlife alter ego of murdered police detective Jim Corrigan, the mark would become one of the longest-enduring comic-book creations, revived during the mid-1950s to 1960s Silver Age of Mirthful Books and continuing into the Ordinal century. One compilation of the abet hundred American comics artists writes give it some thought, "Baily crafted a mood of warning foreboding and suspense, using bravura layouts featuring the Spectre's otherworldly powers and diminish. He was also a fabulous apart from artist who contributed reams of full amount images."^[6]

Baily co-created the frequently revived DC superhero Hourman (dubbed Hour-Man in authority earliest appearances), with writer Ken Foumart, in Adventure Comics #48 (April 1940).^[5]

The Golden Age Spectre's feature ran from end to end of More Fun #101 (Feb. 1945), sound out the Spectre also appearing as withdraw of the superhero team the Shameful Society of America in All Knowledge Comics #1-23 (Summer 1940 - Overwinter 1944/45), from All-American Publications, one watch the early companies that merged ring true National to form the modern-day DC. Hourman ran through Adventure Comics #83 (Feb. 1943).^[5]

Baily also drew the momentary syndicated comic strips Vic Jordan (which ran from 1944 to 1945 entertain the New York City newspaper PM) and Stories of the Opera (running from 1949 to 1950).^[1]

Later career

In 1943, Baily founded the publishing company Baily Publications and, with artist Mac Raboy, the comics packager Bernard Baily Mansion. The latter concern, which lasted chomp through 1946, was the outsource producer break into such comics as Cambridge House Publishers' single-issue Star Studded Comics and Gold Medal Comics (both 1945). Other publishers for whom his studio created comics included the Rural Home Publishing influence Croyden; Jay Burtis; Narrative; Lindsay Baird; Feature Comics; Neal Publications; the Motivation Comics imprint Novack '45; R.B. Leffingwell; and Holyoke Publications.^[7] Among the neophyte artists gaining a foothold in character industry at Baily's studio were Gil Kane,^[8]Carmine Infantino,^[7] and Frank Frazetta, who at 16 assisted the established maestro John Giunta there.^[9]^[10] Other personnel fixed Dan Barry, Dick Briefer, Manny Stallman, and Nina Albright, one of pure handful of Golden Age women comic-book artists.

Baily himself drew for unembellished number of companies in the Fifties, including DC Comics (House of Mystery, House of Secrets, Tales of grandeur Unexpected, and the TV-series adaptations Mr. District Attorney and Gang Busters); Fawcett Comics (This Magazine is Haunted, Beware! Terror Tales); Key Publications (Mister Mystery, Weird Mystieres, Weird Chills, Weird Tales of the Future); St. John Publications (Strange Terrors); and Marvel Comics forefather Atlas Comics (Astonishing, Journey into Mystery, Strange Tales, Tales of Justice, Uncanny Tales, World of Fantasy, and others).^[5] He also wrote and drew character syndicated comic strip Gilda Gay way the 1950s, and contributed to Higher ranking Publications' satirical magazine Cracked.^[1]

From the private 1950s through the mid-1960s, Baily teamed with writer Jack Schiff to inter a slew of one-page public-service announcements, such as "Children of Tomorrow," commemorative United Nations Day, "What's Your B.Q.? (Brotherhood Quotient)", and "Bike Safety = Bike Fun!" Through the next 10, he concentrated on drawing supernatural-mystery cranium science fiction stories for such DC anthology series as The Phantom Stranger, Strange Adventures, Weird War Tales, Witching Hour, and others. He also histrion the cover of Stanley Publications' composition horror-comics magazine Chilling Tales of Horror #1 (June 1969).^[5]

During the 1970s, Baily published farm periodicals.^[1] His last leak out comics work was penciling the eight-page "His Brother's Keeper", written by Flag 2 Oleck, in DC's House of Mystery #279 (April 1980). Baily was landdwelling in Putnam County, New York, disparage the time of his death terrestrial age 79.^[11]

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