Paul Murry

Paul Murry ( born November 25, 1911 in Stanberry, Missouri; † August 4, 1989 in Palmdale, California ) was an American comic book and animation artists. He became famous especially by working for Disney, most of which dealt with Mickey Mouse.

Biography

Paul Murry was born on November 25, 1911 in Stanberry, Missouri. Up to the age of 26, he worked as a farmer. After that, he worked for nearly a year in the advertising department of a print shop in St. Joseph, after the owner of the company had seen a drawing of him, with which he had adorned the answer to a contest. The end of 1937, he applied to a display at the Walt Disney Studios as an animator. After he had made some sample drawings, he was taken in early June 1938 in the studios. There he worked on several short films with Mickey Mouse, as well as, inter alia, to the long- movies Dumbo and Pinocchio under Fred Moore.

Beginning of 1943 was Bob Grant, who drew comic strips for the Sunday pages at the time, was called up for military service. In its place, Murry took over the Strip, the first José Carioca and Panchito Pistoles later had a hero. In parallel, Murry supported Floyd Gottfredson 1944 at the drawings of Mickey Mouse daily strip. Among other things, Murry was involved in the story The House of Mystery. 1945 and 1946 he finally drew a few Sunday pages with Hansi hare.

From 1946 to 1949 Murry worked as a farmer again. Then he returned shortly back to the Walt Disney Studios. In early 1950, published his first stories with Donald Duck in Dell Walt Disney 's Comics and Stories. His first story with Mickey Mouse appeared in July 1950 in Vacation Parade 1 parallel, Murry drew cartoons for humor magazines such as gags, Pepper and Charley Jones ' Laugh Book Magazine. Following this, the artist is trying to use its own newspaper strip together with lyricist Dick Huemer. The strip, titled Buck O'Rue was published from January 1951 to December 1952.

1953 Murry began a long-standing fruitful collaboration with the lyricist Carl Berg case. Prominent here especially their long histories with Mickey Mouse, which were published in the book series Walt Disney 's Comics and Stories and Mickey Mouse. The stories in Walt Disney 's Comics and Stories were distributed as a miniseries on mostly three issues. This division into several parts was retained in the German version. In addition to these long stories with Mickey Mouse Murry recorded but also many shorter stories with almost all the Disney characters, such as the small bad wolf. From 1959 Murry also recorded a few stories with Woody Woodpecker.

The 1960s were characterized for Murry particular of three events. In the miniseries The Return of the Phantom Blot ( Walt Disney 's Comics and Stories 284-287 ) the Black Phantom celebrated his return, which had previously been brought to the 1930s in the newspaper strips the reader to shudder. In parallel, Gold Key launched the book series, The Phantom Blot, a total of seven issues, which were all designed by Murry. Murry was also the inventor of drawing Supergoof. This figure was so successful that the published named after her book series for 20 years.

It is worth noting, finally, the collaboration with Dan Murry Reflect for the three -part series Mickey Mouse Super Secret Agent. This appeared in Mickey Mouse 107 - 109 Mickey and Goofy work in this series as secret agents. They then act in a real world drawn, surrounded by human-looking characters. While Murry Mickey and Goofy recorded, the rest of Reflect was drawn. None of these three stories have been published in German.

The 1970s saw the slow decline of Disney comics in the United States. In the various publication series less and less new material was printed. Instead, recourse was had to reprint. However, sporadic new stories, including those of Murry emerged. The last Mickey Mouse story of Murry for the book series Mickey Mouse appeared in 1980 and for the book series Walt Disney 's Comics and Stories 1982. His last years were spent Murry with "music, natural history, farming and sometimes just plain doing nothing ". He died on 4 August 1989 in Palmdale, California.

Style

Murry was known for his long Mickey Mouse stories and coined this figure next to Floyd Gottfredson by far the most. He was known also for being able to draw a large number of different characters perfectly, like no other.

The Mickey Mouse figure he drew from two sides. Once, in the WDC, as a courageous, ever-ready adventurer, and on the other side in the Mickey Mouse Magazine helpless, confused and a little goofy. He especially likes to let Pluto also occur, which is not important in Adventure Comics from the side of his master, and intervened in crucial situations. Likewise, Goofy, the best friend of Rich's mice, which was always clumsy gradually. Just coined by Murry especially since he let him contort in an incomparable way to and folding.

The artist was also known for his expansive, detailed backgrounds and his careful work. His drawings are rather rough.

Paul Murry's outfits for Walt Disney 's Comics and Stories

The following list contains the miniseries that Paul Murry usually together with Carl Berg case for Walt Disney 's Comics and Stories (hereinafter: WDC ) designed. They were printed from 1953 to 1973 in WDC.

• The Last Resort ( WDC 152-154 )

• The Lens Hunters ( WDC 158-160 )

• The Case of the Vanishing Bandit ( WDC 161-163 )

• The Mysterious Crystal Ball ( WDC 164-166 )

• The Magic Rope ( WDC 170-172 )

• Ridin 'the Rails ( WDC 173-175 )

• Yesterday Ranch ( WDC 179-181 )

• The Marvelous Magnet ( WDC 182-184 )

• The Vanishing Railroad ( WDC 185-187 )

• The Case of the Hungry Ghost ( WDC 188-190 )

• The Pirates of Tabasco Bay ( WDC 191-193 )

• The Great Stamp Hunt ( WDC 194-196 )

• The Legend of Loon Lake ( 197-199 )

• The Phantom Fires ( WDC 200-202 )

• The Crystal Ball Quest ( WDC 203, 204)

• The Sunken City ( WDC 205-207 )

• The Mystery of Lonely Valley ( WDC 208-210 )

• The Castaways of Whale Bay ( WDC 211-213 )

• The Idol of Moaning Iceland ( WDC 214-216 )

• The Threat of the Stone - Eaters ( WDC 217-219 )

• The Monster of Sawtooth Mountain ( WDC 220-222 )

• Alaskan Adventure ( in WDC 223-225 )

• The Fantastic Fog ( WDC 226-228 )

• The Bar None Ranch ( WDC 229-233 ); Remake of Gottfredson's eponymous story

• Pineapple Poachers ( WDC 234-236 )

• An Education for Thursday ( WDC 237-241 ); Remake of Gottfredson's eponymous story

• Mickey's Strange Mission ( WDC 243-245 )

• The Moon - Blot Plot ( WDC 246-248 )

• The Golden Touch ( WDC 249-251 )

• The Great Giveaway Mystery ( WDC 252-254 )

• The Mystery of Misery Mesa ( WDC 255-257 )

• The Missing Merchantman ( WDC 258-260 )

• The Incredible Box Top Box ( WDC 261-263 )

• The Treasure of El Dorado ( in WDC 264-266 )

• The Secret of the Ancient Incas ( WDC 274-276 )

• Undercover Mountie ( WDC 277-279 )

• The Return of the Phantom Blot ( WDC 284-287 )

• The Phantom Ship ( WDC 290-292 )

• Trapped on Wreckers Reef ( WDC 296-298 )

• The Treasure of Oomba Loomba ( WDC 313-316 )

• The Red Wasp Mystery ( WDC 317-319 )

• Lair of the Zoomby ( WDC 320-322 )

• Trapped in Time ( WDC 323-326 )

• The Case of the Dazzling Hoo- Doo ( WDC 330-332 )

• The River Pirates ( WDC 336-338 )

• The Strange Case of Professor Zero ( WDC 339-341 )

• The Secret of Shipnappers ' Cove ( WDC 342-344 )

• The Sinking City ( WDC 345-347 )

• The Sorcerer of Donnybrook Castle ( WDC 351-353 )

• Chief Bigfoot and the Ghost Warriors ( WDC 354-356 )

• Journey to No-No country ( in WDC 357-359 )

• The Sign of the Scorpion ( WDC 360-362 )

• The Mystery of the Counterfeit Masters ( WDC 363-365 )

• Kingdom in the Clouds ( WDC 366-368 )

• The Viking Stone Mystery ( WDC 370-372 )

• The Pirates of Port Placid ( WDC 374-376 )

• The Golden Helmet ( WDC 377-379 )

• Message in a Nutshell ( WDC 380-382 )

• The Mystery Monster from Smoggy Bog ( WDC 383-385 )

• The Old Pirate 's Mansion ( WDC 386-388 )

• The Case of the Talking Tooth ( WDC 389-391 )

• Flight of the Dragon ( WDC 392-394 )