Morris Weiss | |
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Born | Morris S. Weiss August 11, 1915 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | May 18, 2014 | (aged 98)
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Artist, writer |
Pseudonym(s) | Ink Higgins |
Notable works | "Margie", Mickey Finn |
Morris S. Weiss (August 11, 1915 – May 18, 2014) was an American comic book and comic strip artist and writer. Active from the 1930s through the mid-1970s, he created the teen-comedy character Margie for Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, and was the final cartoonist on the comic strip Mickey Finn. He also worked as a writer or illustrator on numerous other strips, including Joe Palooka.