Alexander A Schomburg, born Alejandro Schomburg y Rosa, was a Puerto Rican commercial artist and comic-book artist and painter whose career lasted over 70 years.
10 Facts About Alex Schomburg
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Alex Schomburg was born on May 10,1905, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, as the son of Guillermo Schomburg, a civil engineer and land surveyor of German ancestry and Jewish ancestry, and Francisca Rosa.
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Alex Schomburg moved to New York City in 1917, where he joined his older brothers and attended public school.
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In 1928, the brothers' partnership ended and Schomburg found work with the National Screen Service, creating lantern slides and working on movie trailers there through 1944.
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Alex Schomburg provided covers for Pines Publications, for titles including Exciting Comics and America's Best Comics, featuring such superheroes as the Black Terror and the Fighting Yank, as well as for Harvey Comics, including the licensed radio-series crimefighter star of Green Hornet Comics.
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Alex Schomburg penciled and inked a six-page chapter featuring the Golden Age Human Torch.
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Late in life, Alex Schomburg resided in Hillsboro, Oregon, and died in Beaverton, Oregon, on April 7,1998.
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I've always felt that Alex Schomburg was to comic books what Norman Rockwell was to The Saturday Evening Post.
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Alex Schomburg was totally unique, with an amazing distinctive style.
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You could never mistake a Alex Schomburg cover for any other artist's.