1. Danny L Adkins was an American illustrator who worked mainly for comic books and science-fiction magazines.
11 Facts About Dan Adkins
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Dan Adkins was born in West Virginia, in the basement of an unfinished house.
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Dan Adkins left the state "when I was about 7" as his family moved to Pennsylvania; Reno, Nevada; Phoenix, Arizona; New York; Ohio; and New Jersey.
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When he was "about 11" years old, Adkins said, he had a bout with rheumatic fever that left him paralyzed from the waist down for six months.
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In Phoenix, Arizona, Dan Adkins met artist-writer Bill Pearson who signed on as Sata's co-editor.
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Dan Adkins contributed to numerous other fan publications, including Amra, Vega and Xero.
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At 19, Dan Adkins began doing freelance illustration for science-fiction magazines.
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Dan Adkins moved to New York City and when he was "about 24" years old was an art director for the Hearst Corporation's American Druggist and New Medical Material magazines.
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In 1964, during the period comic-book fans and historians call the Silver Age of Comics, Dan Adkins joined the Wally Wood Studio as Wood's assistant.
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Wood and Dan Adkins collaborated on a series of stories for Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazines Creepy and Eerie.
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In 2019, Dan Adkins was inducted into the Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame for his lifetime achievement and outstanding accomplishments.