1. John Francis Rosenberger, occasionally credited as John Diehl, was an American comics artist and painter from after the Second World War until the mid-1970s.
22 Facts About John Rosenberger
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John Rosenberger continued to draw, and took inspiration from such artists as Norman Rockwell, Alex Raymond, Hal Foster, and Milton Caniff.
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In 1938, John Rosenberger enrolled in night classes at the Pratt Institute, where he met and started a romantic relationship with Marguerite "Peggy" Chapellier.
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In 1943 John Rosenberger was sent overseas for the remainder of the war, working on the construction of an oil pipeline in the China Burma India Theater.
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The Rosenbergers' first son John was born while he was away.
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Meanwhile, John Rosenberger painted portraits and spent evenings and free time preparing samples of his art and looking for publishers.
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John Rosenberger had done a bit of work for Dell Comics before the war.
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John Rosenberger started comics work again in 1946, and by 1949 he was working entirely freelance.
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John Rosenberger had left his job at the gallery in April 1948, and was working on crime, western, adventure, and romance stories for several different publishers.
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Robert Bernstein was a writer John Rosenberger met while drawing for Brevity, Inc.
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Indeed, John Rosenberger suffered a nervous breakdown in 1952, after which the family temporarily moved to a small town in Connecticut.
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John Rosenberger soon resumed working on the paperback covers, but was hesitant in going back to work for comics.
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John Rosenberger covered all genres for ACG, and worked in all the company's titles in some part through the mid-1960s, including Adventures into the Unknown, Forbidden Worlds, Unknown Worlds, and Romantic Adventures, all of which had managed to survive the implementation of the Comics Code Authority in 1954.
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John Rosenberger then teamed with Robert Bernstein to create the Jaguar in a similar mold.
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John Rosenberger served as a regular artist on several other titles for the Adventure Series before the group segued into the campy Mighty Comics.
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Meanwhile, John Rosenberger had been working for National since 1963 on romance stories.
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John Rosenberger's style suited the still-popular genre in that he kept up-to-date with fashionable hair and clothing styles.
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John Rosenberger continued with romance work for DC in comic books such as Falling in Love, Girls' Love Stories, Girls' Romances, Secret Hearts, and Young Romance, but the genre's popularity was quickly waning.
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In 1974, John Rosenberger stopped work on DC projects for unknown reasons.
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John Rosenberger started penciling for Sy Barry, the regular artist for The Phantom newspaper strip, whose eyesight was beginning to fail him.
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John Rosenberger continued with this task on-and-off for about a year.
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John Rosenberger suffered a heart attack on April 22,1976, and took about two months off to recover.