22 Facts About Jim Mooney

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James Noel Mooney was an American comics artist best known for his long tenure at DC Comics and as the signature artist of Supergirl, as well as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist, both during what comics historians and fans call the Silver Age of Comic Books and what is known as the Bronze Age of Comic Books.

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Jim Mooney was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles.

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Kuttner encouraged the teenaged Jim Mooney to submit art to Farnsworth Wright, the editor of the pulp magazine for which Kuttner was writing, Weird Tales.

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Jim Mooney's first professional sale was an illustration for one of Kuttner's stories in that magazine.

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Jim Mooney went on staff at Fiction House for approximately nine months, working on features including "Camilla" and "Suicide Smith" and becoming friends with colleagues George Tuska, Ruben Moreira, and Cardy.

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Jim Mooney began freelancing for Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel, working on that company's "animation" line of talking animal and movie-cartoon tie-in comics.

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Jim Mooney wrote and drew a talking animal feature, "Perky Penguin and Booby Bear", in 1946 and 1947 for Treasure Chest, the Catholic-oriented comic book distributed in parochial schools.

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In 1946, Jim Mooney began a 22-year association with the company that would evolve into DC.

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Jim Mooney began with the series Batman as a ghost artist for credited artist Bob Kane.

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Jim Mooney branched out to the series Superboy, and such features as "Dial H for Hero" in House of Mystery, and Tommy Tomorrow in both Action Comics and World's Finest Comics.

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For much of this run on his signature character, Jim Mooney lived in Los Angeles, managing an antiquarian book store on Hollywood Boulevard and sometimes hiring art students to work in the store and ink backgrounds on his pencilled pages.

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Jim Mooney first worked on Spider-Man by inking The Spectacular Spider-Man magazine's two issues.

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Jim Mooney would go on to ink a run of Amazing Spider-Man, which he recalled as "finalising it over John's layouts".

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Jim Mooney embellished John Buscema's pencils on many issues of The Mighty Thor.

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Jim Mooney named his collaborations with Gerber as being among his personal favorites.

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In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Gerber and Jim Mooney's run on Omega the Unknown tenth on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels".

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Jim Mooney worked on Marvel-related coloring books, for the child-oriented Spidey Super Stories, and for a Spider-Man feature in a children's-magazine spin-off of the PBS educational series The Electric Company, which included segments featuring Spider-Man.

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In 1975, Jim Mooney, wanting to move to Florida, negotiated a 10-year contract with Marvel to supply artwork from there.

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In Florida, Jim Mooney co-created Adventure Publications' Star Rangers with writer Mark Ellis, and worked on Superboy for DC Comics, Anne Rice's The Mummy for Millennium Publications, and the Creepy miniseries for Harris Comics.

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When Harris editor Richard Howell left to co-found Claypool Comics in 1993, Jim Mooney produced many stories for the 166-issue run of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and became the regular inker on writer Peter David's Soulsearchers and Company, over the pencils of Amanda Conner, Neil Vokes, John Heebink, and mostly Dave Cockrum.

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In 1996, Jim Mooney was one of the many creators who contributed to the Superman: The Wedding Album one-shot wherein the title character married Lois Lane.

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Jim Mooney died March 30,2008, in Florida after an extended illness.