16 Facts About CC Beck

Charles Clarence CC Beck was an American cartoonist and comic book artist, best known for his work on Captain Marvel at Fawcett Comics and DC Comics.

CC Beck's father was a Lutheran minister and his mother was a schoolteacher.

CC Beck studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Minnesota, and took an art correspondence course.

In 1933, CC Beck joined Fawcett Publications as a staff artist, where he created pulp magazines.

Besides Captain Marvel, CC Beck drew other Fawcett series, including the adventures of Spy Smasher and Ibis the Invincible.

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CC Beck favored a cartoony versus realistic rendering of character and setting, which came to be reflected in the whimsical scripting .

CC Beck later expanded his studio, adding one in Englewood, New Jersey.

CC Beck's studio supplied most of the artwork in the Marvel Family line of books.

The result was The Silver Spider, with CC Beck doing rough art from a script by Jack Oleck; Simon used his connections to pitch the property to Harvey Comics but they rejected it.

CC Beck had a short story titled "Vanishing Point" published in the July 1959 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.

CC Beck left after the tenth issue due to "creative differences" regarding plotlines.

CC Beck was guest of honor at the 1973 Comic Art Convention and the 1977 San Diego Comic Book Convention, memorably at the latter he in the evening played guitar serenading fans and guests poolside at the El Cortez Hotel.

CC Beck attended the initial OrlandoCon in 1974 and was a regular attendee into the early 1980s.

CC Beck was a guest at the 1982 Minneapolis Comic-Con.

CC Beck was recognized for his work with a formal nomination as a finalist for the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990, and induction in 1997.

CC Beck was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1993.