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Featuring artist (July 1920 - December 1984, USA)

Alfred Avison was a prolific figure in the Golden Age of , creating The for the debut of USA Comics, with fellow artist Al Gabrielle and he very soon developed a talent for terror. His initiation to comic books came in 1940, when he was assigned as ’s on the title Comics #4 while still studying at the in . During this fledgling period he was in the gainful employ of and actually worked alongside his father George, a fellow commercial artist, on the first and only issue of the slick magazine Man’s Home Companion (October 1942).

He was also known to have phenomenon. was freelanced for between indeed one of the champions of the 1941 and 1942 working on the original vaunted golden age of comics, but his Captain and was title was plagued by a host of chilling busily supplying artwork to Harvey adversaries. When Al and Comics on a wide range of characters, assumed the role as Cap’s regular team including The Red Blazer in Pocket of artists following the departure of Comics #1 (August 1941), Casper the Jack Kirby and with issue Friendly , Captain Freedom, Joe #10 early in 1942, the tone of this title Palooka and The . became somewhat darker. The covers As early as Captain America now enticed with graveyards, ghouls, Comics #4 (June 1941), while once again vampires, killer robots and murderous inking Jack Kirby’s pencils—this time on hillbillies. The heroic dynamics espoused ‘Captain America in Hospital Horror’—he by Jack Kirby thankfully continued to demonstrated an affinity for the more pulsate across the cover and each and macabre elements of this burgeoning every page, for this was a country in a Image kindly supplied by Heritage Auctions (HA.com) Image kindly supplied by Heritage Auctions (HA.com) Image kindly supplied by Heritage

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