Dick Dillin

Richard Allen " Dick" Dillin ( born December 17, 1929 in Watertown, New York; † 1 March 1980) was an American comic book artist.

Life and work

After the completion of the Watertown High School Dillin came to Japan, where he was stationed as a member of the 8th U.S. Army in Tokyo, Yokohama and Okinawa. He then studied at Syracuse University and the work as an engineer in a factory for train brakes in Watertown.

End of the 1940s moved Dillin together with his wife Estella Dillin to New York City about where he worked as an illustrator for magazines and Werbemateriaien before he received first jobs as a professional cartoonist from publishers Fawcett Comics and Fiction House. For Fawcett he was published in Whiz Comics series Lance O'Casey and Ibis the Invincible, while he designed for Fiction House Buzz Bennett and Space Rangers. In 1952, he joined Quality Comics, where he worked for the Series Blackhawk, GI Combat, Love Confessions Love Secrets and recorded.

In the 1960s, after Quality Comics had ceased its activities, Dillinger moved to DC Comics, where he continued his work on Blackhawk - continued - who had now been bought out by DC. There was work for World's Finest Comics and some Batman ideas before Dillin the job of master illustrator of the popular series Justice League was he from 1968 to 1980 over a distance of 119 issues (# 64-183 ) recorded with almost no interruption ( only # 153 was by another artist, George Tuska, framed). His most frequent artistic partner was there the inker Joe Giella, while the list of authors with whom Dillin often worked such names as Gerry Conway, Len Wein and Gardner Fox covers.

• Cartoonist
• Americans
• Born in 1929
• Died in 1980
• Man