Mac Raboy

Emmanuel "Mac" Raboy ( born April 19, 1914 in New York; † December 1967 ) was an American comic book artist. Raboy was best known for his work on the science-fiction comic strip Flash Gordon.

Life and work

Raboy began in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, a body set up by the Roosevelt administration work procurement agency to work as a commissioned artist for the Works Progress Administration, designed for the advertising posters.

In the 1940s, Raboy began to hire themselves out as a cartoonist. So he created in the course of the 1940s, numerous books of this series Green Lama and Captain Marvel, Jr.. Popcultural of lasting importance here was his design for the title role of Captain Marvel, Jr., whose unusual hair style, a stylized " pompadour " many readers animated imitation. Among them was the young Elvis Presley, who imitated the hairstyle of its prototype Captain Marvel, Jr., and, as in the 1950s, many of his fans in turn imitated his Elvis hairdo, this turned into a mass look.

1946 Raboy was hired by King Features Syndicate as a signatory to the appearing of Alex Raymond on the Sunday page of countless American newspapers comic strips to the science fiction hero Flash Gordon, which was to serve Raboy until his death in 1967.