Morris Weiss

Morris Weiss
Morris Weiss in 2006
BornMorris S. Weiss
(1915-08-11)August 11, 1915
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedMay 18, 2014(2014-05-18) (aged 98)
NationalityAmerican
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.