Martin Nodell
Martin Nodell (* November 15, 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † December 9, 2006 in Waukesha, Wisconsin) (pseudonym: Mart Dellon ) was an American comic book artist.
Life and work
Nodell grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, he moved to de 1930s to New York City. There he furthered his education at Pratt Institute and began in 1938 as a professional artist to work.
After Nodell first place had some time working as a freelancer, he found a permanent job with the publisher All- American Comics. For All American Comics, one of three publishers should merge later DC Comics, Nodell created in 1940 the original version of the superhero character Green Lantern. According to the company inspired by Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung ( magic ring motif) and the sight of an employee of the New York City art, the one, alternately green and red light, lantern around was in a subway shaft ( Lantern motive and character name), Nodell developed the plot premise of today successful science fiction series. At the instigation of Nodells superior editors of the author Bill was involved fingers later, the compacted Nodells ideas and fashioned into workable scripts.
The first story of the jobs created by Nodell and finger new character finally appeared in July 1940 in the comic book All-American Comics # 16 After that was the Green Lantern series to 1947 continuously a fixed feature of the series. Nodell oversaw the Green Lantern stories in the All- American Comics and in the series All Star Comics until 1941. Subsequently he was the cartoonist job for the eponymous series Green Lantern, the only stories about " his character " were published and he to issue # 25 recorded in May 1947.
Since his work as a cartoonist he then still was embarrassing - in an obituary in Newsday from 2006 Nodell is quoted as saying " culturally unaccapable " - hid Nodell at this time behind the pseudonym Mart Dellon.
1947 moved Nodell of All- American Comics to the publisher Timely Comics. There he was in the years stories for serial Captain America (or two issues long, # 74 and 75, under the title Captain America's Weird Tales ), Human Torch and Sub-Mariner.
In the 1950s Nodell began working as an illustrator for advertising agencies. For the company Leo Burnett Agency, he created in 1965 as an art director, the figure of the " Pillsbury Dougboy ", which was for decades the Werbemaskotchen an American flour manufacturer.
After Nodell was retired in 1976, he spent in New York City, Palm Beach and Detroit, he contributed occasionally comic stories for various series in the program of DC Comics at. So drew parts of the booklets Super Friends Special # 1 (1981 ) or Green Lantern # 19 (1991).
Family and private life
In December 1941, married Nodell Carrie? († 2004), whom he had met two months earlier at Coney Iceland. The marriage had two sons, Spencer and Mitchell Nodell Nodell that Nodell bestowed six grandchildren and three great- grandchildren.
- Cartoonist
- Americans
- Born in 1915
- Died in 2006
- Man