Sheldon Mayer

Sheldon Mayer ( born April 1, 1917 in New York City; † December 21, 1991 ) was an American comic book writer and signatory.

Life and work

Mayer began in the 1930s for the animation studio of the Fleischer brothers and for the McClure Syndicate to work before he took a job as an editor at the publisher All-American Publications at the beginning of the 1940s. In the following years he took part in All Star Comics with the development of numerous in large part to this day known and popular cartoon characters, including Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman and the Justice Society of America.

After Mayer in 1949 gave up his career as an editor, he began to focus on writing and drawing comic humorous stories for the publisher National Periodicals. His best-known works from this period are The Three Mouseketeers and - in the late 1950s - Sugar and Spike. Added to this was the semi- autobiographical series Scribbly who had the adventure of a young illustrator to content. In the 1970s, Mayer created the character Black Orchid and also contributed drawings for various horror and mystery comics in his own work capacity because of a cataractous eye condition gradually decreased.

• Comic author
• Cartoonist
• Americans
• Born 1917
• Died in 1991
• Man