1. Richard Bache Ayers was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the late-1950s and 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comics, including on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four.
Dick Ayers is the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt.
Dick Ayers was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2007.
Dick Ayers published his first comic strip, Radio Ray, in the military newspaper Radio Post in 1942.
Dick Ayers broke into comics with unpublished work done for Western Publishing's Dell Comics imprint.
Dick Ayers went on to pencil and ink Western stories in the late 1940s for Magazine Enterprises' A-1 Comics and Trail Colt, and for Prize Comics' Prize Comics Western.
Dick Ayers' hands appear onscreen as those of a cartoonist played by actor Don Briggs in "The Comic Strip Murders", a 1949 episode of the CBS television series Suspense.
Dick Ayers drew horror stories in such titles as Adventures into Terror, Astonishing, Journey into Mystery, Journey into Unknown Worlds, Menace, Mystery Tales, Mystic, Strange Tales, and Uncanny Tales.
Dick Ayers first teamed with the highly influential and historically important penciler Jack Kirby at Atlas shortly before Atlas transitioned to become Marvel Comics.
Dick Ayers drew approximately 30 sports-star biographies for Revolutionary Comics between 1990 and 1994.
Dick Ayers died at his home in White Plains, New York on May 4,2014, six days after his 90th birthday.