1. Graham John Ingels was a comic book and magazine illustrator best known for his work in EC Comics during the 1950s, notably on The Haunt of Fear and Tales from the Crypt, horror titles written and edited by Al Feldstein, and The Vault of Horror, written and edited by Feldstein and Johnny Craig.
Graham Ingels was 16 when he entered the art field drawing theater displays.
Graham Ingels studied at New York's Hawthorne School of Art Graham and Gertrude Ingels married when he was starting as a freelancer at age 20.
Graham Ingels entered the US Navy in 1943, and he began working that same year for Fiction House Publications, both in their pulp magazines and their comic book division.
Black and white illustrations signed G Ingels appeared in Planet Stories, Jungle Stories, North-West Romances and Wings.
Graham Ingels contributed one painted cover to a 1944 issue of Planet Stories as well.
Graham Ingels painted a mural at the United Nations building.
Graham Ingels became an art director at Better Publications, where he gave early comic book assignments to George Evans, with whom he would form a long friendship, and a young Frank Frazetta, who credited Ingels as the first in the business to recognize his talent.
In 1948, Graham Ingels was hired by Al Feldstein, the editor of EC Comics, to provide artwork for their titles which included Gunfighter, Saddle Justice, Saddle Romances, War Against Crime, Modern Love and A Moon, A Girl.
When EC introduced Tales From the Crypt, The Vault of Horror and The Haunt of Fear, it soon became apparent to both Gaines and Feldstein that Graham Ingels was an ideal choice as an illustrator of horror.
Graham Ingels later contributed to EC's short lived Picto-Fiction line.
Graham Ingels took a teaching position with the Famous Artists correspondence school in Westport, Connecticut.
Graham Ingels later left the Northeast and became an art instructor in Lantana, Florida, refusing to acknowledge his work in horror comics until a few years before he died.
Ghastly Graham Ingels was the first Hall of Fame inductee.
In 2024, Graham Ingels was posthumously awarded the Inkwell Awards Stacey Aragon Special Recognition Award.