Dwight Graydon "Gray" Morrow was an American illustrator of comics, magazine covers and paperback books.
17 Facts About Gray Morrow
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Gray Morrow is co-creator of the Marvel Comics muck-monster the Man-Thing and of DC Comics Old West vigilante El Diablo.
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Gray Morrow sold his first comic-book story, a romance tale, to Toby Press, which went out of business before it could be published.
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Gray Morrow then worked for Williamson and Wood doing backgrounds and layouts, and through Williamson began contributing to Atlas Comics, the 1950s iteration of Marvel Comics, drawing several supernatural-fantasy stories plus at least four Westerns and one war story on titles cover-dated July 1956 to June 1957.
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Gray Morrow illustrated several stories for EC Comics in the 1950s, including horror, suspense and science fiction.
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Gray Morrow later did covers and stories for the company's New Trend comics and Picto-Fiction magazines.
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Gray Morrow had a fit and insisted they all be redrawn to 'avoid controversy.
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Concurrently, Gray Morrow illustrated entries in the Bobbs-Merrill juvenile book series "Childhood of Famous Americans", continuing with that publisher after Gilberton ceased production of new titles.
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Gray Morrow's art appears in Henry Clay: Young Kentucky Orator, Douglas MacArthur: Young Protector and other entries.
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Gray Morrow took over the Buck Rogers strip in 1979 and the Tarzan Sunday strip from 1983 to 2001.
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Gray Morrow illustrated and colored each of the several Roger Zelazny stories that the author self-adapted for the 96-page graphic short-story collection The Illustrated Roger Zelazny, produced by Byron Preiss Enterprizes and published by Baronet Publishing in February 1979.
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Gray Morrow did regular interior artwork for Galaxy Science Fiction from 1964 to 1968 including the illustrations for the original Galaxy Science Fiction publication of the Hugo-winning novella Soldier, Ask Not by Gordon R Dickson.
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Gray Morrow drew the comics adaptations of the Sheena and Supergirl movies in 1984.
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Gray Morrow painted or drew the theatrical one-sheet for the Al Adamson horror film Five Bloody Graves, and drew the King Kong cover of the premiere issue of The Monster Times.
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Gray Morrow was living in Kunkletown, Pennsylvania, and suffering from Parkinson's disease when he died November 6,2001, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Gray Morrow was survived by his later wife, Pocho Morrow.
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Gray Morrow was nominated for the Hugo Award for best professional artist in 1966,1967, and 1968.