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Dick Ayers | |
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Dick Ayers at the April 2008 New York Comic Con | |
Born | Richard Bache Ayers April 28, 1924 Ossining, New York, U.S. |
Died | May 4, 2014 White Plains, New York, U.S. | (aged 90)
Area(s) | Penciller, Inker |
Notable works | Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos 1950s Ghost Rider Jack Kirby inker |
Awards | National Cartoonists Society Award, 1985 Inkpot Awards (2007)[1] Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, 2007 Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame (2013) |
Richard Bache Ayers[2] (/ɛərz/; April 28, 1924 – May 4, 2014) was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the late-1950s and 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comics, including on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four. He is the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, drawing it for a 10-year run, and he co-created Magazine Enterprises' 1950s Western-horror character the Ghost Rider, a version of which he would draw for Marvel in the 1960s.
Ayers was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2007.