Today in Comics History, October 24: Happy birthday, Leo Morey!

Happy birthday today to Leo Morey, born 1899: pulp magazine illustrator (Amazing Stories, Analog, Astounding, Detective Novel Magazine, Dime Sports, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Science Fiction Quarterly and many more) and comics artist (Outlaws, Sick, Startling Comics, Yellowjacket Comics, Adventures into the Unknown, Exciting Comics, Sinister Tales, Forbidden Worlds, Beware! and much more)!


from "The Biggest Man in the World!" in Unknown Worlds #4 (ACG, December 1960), script by Richard Hughes as Shane O'Shea, pencils and inks by Leo Morey
Don't get him confused with professional buffoon Steve Lombard's college pal (altho' this character might have been named after Leo!):


from Superman (1939 series) #384 (DC, June 1983), script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Dave Hunt, colors by Anthony Tollin, letters by Ben Oda
Happy birthday, Leo!