Edd Ashe, born Edmund Marion Ashe Jr., (August 11, 1908 – September 4, 1986) was a creator of comic strips and a comic book artist in the United States.[1] He wrote the strip Guy Fortune that ran in the Pittsburgh Courier from August 19, 1950, until October 22, 1955. He also illustrated The American Weekly.[2]
He was born in Norwalk, Connecticut.[2] His father was an artist and head of Carnegie Tech's art department.[3]
He was a white Golden Age comic book artist.[4] He and Nathaniel Nitkin created Bomber Burns.[5]
His second marriage was to Beatrice Bishop in 1941. She was the daughter of a prominent hotelier on Long Island and died February 8, 1983.[2]
Guy Fortune edit
The Guy Fortune comic strip was about a secret agent who was African American. It was pioneering.[6] A 1955 strip features Fortune in Pakistan teaching a young prince baseball.[7]
References edit
- ^ Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov.
- ^ a b c "Catalog". www.pulpartists.com.
- ^ "Edd Ashe". lambiek.net.
- ^ Jackson, Tim (April 21, 2016). Pioneering Cartoonists of Color. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781496804808 – via Google Books.
- ^ Mougin, Lou (10 January 2020). Secondary Superheroes of Golden Age Comics. McFarland. ISBN 9781476638607.
- ^ "Vintage Black Heroes - Guy Fortune | The Museum Of UnCut Funk". museumofuncutfunk.com.
- ^ "1 Jan 1955, Page 31 - The Pittsburgh Courier at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
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