Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Today in Comics History, March 12: Happy Birthday, Sy Barry!

Happy 96th birthday today to Seymour "Sy" Barry, comic book and comic-strip artist: he's worked on Strange Adventures, Mystery in Space, All Star Western, Girls Romances, Rex the Wonder Dog, Superboy and many more...but he's best known for being the artist of The Phantom comic strip for 33+ years, which includes the entire period I read it as a wee calf in the newspaper funnies!

"Behind the Mask" from The Phantom: Ghost Who Walks (2009 series) #1 (Moonstone, March 2009), text by Ed Rhoades, pencils and inks by Sy Barry
(Click picture to Skull Cave-size)

Happy birthday, Sy, and many more!


advertisement from The Phantom (1948 series) #1207 (Frew, 1998)

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2 comments:

  1. Manqueman3/16/2024 6:12 AM

    Mandatory footnote.
    Barry had two other accomplishments besides his Phantom work worth noting:
    With Alex Toth, he co-designed what became DC's slick, often anodyne house style in the 1950s and up to when they realized that Kirby, Ditko and Lee were kicking their asses with a style that wasn't slick and certainly not anodyne.
    And Barry drew the famous MLK Jr "Man from Montgomery" comic.

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  2. Bully3/16/2024 1:24 PM

    Thanks again, Manqueman!

    I didn't know about the first (so it's an education for me!) and I should have mentioned the second but forgot. Thanks for adding them here!

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