Carl T Pfeufer was an American comic-book artist, magazine illustrator, painter, and sculptor.
15 Facts About Carl Pfeufer
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Carl Pfeufer was an early contributor to American comic books; one of the primary early artists of the Marvel Comics superhero the Sub-Mariner; and the longtime artist of Western hero Tom Mix's comic books.
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Carl Pfeufer's father, Alfred Pfeufer, born in Comfort, Texas, died in 1919 after the family settled in New York, where his mother had been born.
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Carl Pfeufer won a Hors Concours award for his life drawings, and later attended the National Academy of Design, where he was compelled to turn down a Prix de Rome scholarship due to family obligations.
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Carl Pfeufer continued his studies at the Grand Central School of Art, the Art Students League of New York, and privately with the American Impressionist painter William Starkweather.
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Carl Pfeufer did magazine illustration, both for pulp magazines and for glossy magazines such as Macfadden Publications' Liberty, for which he painted covers.
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Who's Who lists this as a Watkins Syndicate strip for which Carl Pfeufer drew the daily from 1936 to 1942 and the Sunday strip from 1940 to 1942.
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Carl Pfeufer soon evolved Namor's musculature and vaguely triangular head to almost grotesque proportions, but basically filled Bill's shoes admirably.
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When work dissipated at Timely in 1946, Pfeufer began drawing for Fawcett Comics, illustrating such features as "Mr Scarlet" and "Commando Yank" in Wow Comics.
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Carl Pfeufer drew unspecified "adaptations" for Dell Comics, which often licensed film and television properties, from 1957 to 1959, and did illustrations for magazines including Off Beat Detective Stories, from the Holyoke, Massachusetts-based Pontiac Publishing, as well as for Outdoor Life and Reader's Digest.
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Carl Pfeufer's next known comic-book work appears in a handful of superhero and science-fiction stories published in 1966 and 1967 by Harvey Comics, best known for such children's characters as Richie Rich and Casper the Friendly Ghost.
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Again with Binder, Carl Pfeufer co-created the military superhero character Super Green Beret, which appeared in the two issues published of the namesake series from the short-lived Lightning Comics.
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Carl Pfeufer drew romance comics in 1967 for DC Comics' Girls' Love Stories and Secret Hearts.
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Carl Pfeufer did a set of four GI Joe comics as text for Peter Pan's Book and Record series in 1973.
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Carl Pfeufer was a resident of Kerr County, Texas, at the time of his death at age 69.