1. George Roussos, known under the pseudonym George Bell, was an American comic book artist best known as one of Jack Kirby's Silver Age inkers, including on landmark early issues of Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four.
11 Facts About George Roussos
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George Roussos was born in Washington, DC, the son of Greek-Americans William and Helen Roussos.
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George Roussos was influenced by the art of cartoonist Frank Miller in the aviation comic strip Barney Baxter in the Air.
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George Roussos entered comics in 1939 as letterer of the Spanish-language version of the newspaper panel Ripley's Believe It or Not, despite not being able to read Spanish.
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George Roussos worked on features starring the Vigilante, Johnny Quick, Superman, and Starman.
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George Roussos was the co-creator, along with Jerry Siegel, of Superwoman.
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George Roussos did 16 internationally distributed educational pamphlets for General Electric, receiving a World War II draft deferment to do so.
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George Roussos unsuccessfully pitched syndication companies his own comic strips, such as the science fiction feature 2001 AD in 1945, the archeology strip Azeena in 1967, and Transisto, with Batman creator Bill Finger, in the late 1960s.
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George Roussos was a Renaissance man whose myriad interests included architecture, astronomy, automobiles, gardening, natural medicine, philosophy and photography.
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George Roussos took photographs of various Long Island estates, and his photographs at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park were collected in his book, The Bayard Cutting Arboretum History.
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George Roussos was married twice: to Viola Fink, followed by Florence Lacey.