Edd Ashe
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. He was born in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Edd Ashe
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- 1908
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- painter · illustrator · artist
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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. He was born in Norwalk, Connecticut.
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Guy Fortune
His father was an artist and head of Carnegie Tech's art department. He was a white Golden Age comic book artist. He and Nathaniel Nitkin created Bomber Burns. 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.
The Guy Fortune comic strip was about a secret agent who was African American. It was pioneering. A 1955 strip features Fortune in Pakistan teaching a young prince baseball.
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- 1.Congress, The Library of. LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress). id.loc.gov.
- 2.Edd Ashe. lambiek.net.
- 3.Jackson, Tim. Pioneering Cartoonists of Color. Univ. Press of Mississippi. April 21, 2016. 9781496804808.
- 4.Mougin, Lou. Secondary Superheroes of Golden Age Comics. McFarland. 10 January 2020. 9781476638607.
- 5.Catalog. www.pulpartists.com.
- 6.Vintage Black Heroes - Guy Fortune | The Museum Of UnCut Funk. museumofuncutfunk.com.
- 7.1 Jan 1955, Page 31 - The Pittsburgh Courier at Newspapers.com. Newspapers.com. 31. January 1955.
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