Wednesday, November 08, 2023

Today in Comics History, November 8: Happy birthday, Tony DeZuniga!

Born on this day in 1932: comics artist, penciller and inker Tony DeZuniga, co-creator of Jonah Hex and Black Orchid! He's also worked on Weird Western Tales, Weird War Tales, Weird War Tales (notice a theme there?), Archie's Red Circle books, Jonah Hex, Sinister House of Secret Love, Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love/Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion, All-Star Western, The Witching Hour and more, plus inking dozens and dozens of DCs and Marvels!

"[Conan with His Chroniclers]" from Savage Sword of Conan (1974 series) #200 (Marvel, August 1992), pencils and inks by Dave Simons
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Happy birthday, Tony!

5 comments:

Blam said...

Yeah, F Jonah Hex and Black Orchid!
8^)

Bully said...

Considering I posted this at 6:30 in the morning while I was half-asleep, I'm surprised there was only one typo!

(double-checks to make sure the alt-text doesn't read "XXX")

Michael Grabowski said...

I feel like there's a person missing there, what was his name? Smith, or something non-descript like that. I guess his work wasn't that memorable.

Bully said...

Barry's hiding inside the cake!

J W said...

LOVE his work on Jonah Hex!