Carl Burgos was inducted into comic books' Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1996.
10 Facts About Carl Burgos
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Carl Burgos was born as Max Finkelstein in New York City, the child of Jewish parents.
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Carl Burgos studied at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, where, he recalled in the late 1960s, "I quit after one year because I couldn't learn enough".
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Carl Burgos' character proved a hit, and quickly went on to headline one of comics' first single-character titles, The Human Torch.
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Carl Burgos left for World War II military service in 1942, starting in the US Army Air Corps, for which he took infantry ranger training and was sent overseas as a rifleman before being transferred to the Signal Corps and then to an engineer division.
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Segueing out of full-time comics work, Carl Burgos eased into a career in advertising and commercial art while freelancing frequently for Atlas Comics, the 1950s iteration of Marvel, primarily as a cover artist across all genres from jungle-girl to war comics, though fellow Atlas artist Stan Goldberg, who joined the company in 1949, recalled in 2002 that "Carl Burgos was on staff most of the time I was there".
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Carl Burgos drew himself and writer-editor Stan Lee into the final panel of the Torch story, with Lee adding the avuncular dialog:.
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That same year, Burgos created a short-lived character called Captain Marvel for Myron Fass' M F Enterprises as a result of Fawcett Comics losing its trademark.
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Carl Burgos was quickly ordered to cease by Marvel Comics.
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From 1971 to 1975, Carl Burgos served as an editor for Fass' Eerie Publications line of black-and-white horror-comic magazines, including Horror Tales, Weird, Tales from the Tomb, Tales of Voodoo, Terror Tales, Weird, and Witches Tales.