Kurt Schaffenberger was an American comics artist.
12 Facts About Kurt Schaffenberger
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Kurt Schaffenberger was best known for his work on Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family during both the Golden Age and Bronze Age of comics, as well as his work on the title Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Kurt Schaffenberger served in the US military during World War II, including a stint with the Office of Strategic Services, leaving the military with the rank of Master Sergeant.
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Kurt Schaffenberger returned to the world of professional sequential art soon after war's end.
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Kurt Schaffenberger resumed his work for the Captain Marvel family of titles, and expanded his reach to an even more diverse group of publishing houses, including EC Comics, Gilberton, Premier Magazines, American Comics Group, and Marvel Comics.
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At Gilberton, Kurt Schaffenberger provided the interior art for Classics Illustrated No 119, Soldiers of Fortune.
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Kurt Schaffenberger stayed at DC for the next 30 years, making an especially large contribution to the development of Lois Lane.
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Kurt Schaffenberger was essentially fired from DC in 1970 for helping to organize other artists to protest bad working conditions.
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When, in the 1970s, DC acquired the rights to the Marvel Family, Kurt Schaffenberger was one of the key players in the revival of those characters.
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In 1980, Kurt Schaffenberger was again leading a Superman family title, The New Adventures of Superboy, the final, post-Legion title for the original Superboy.
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Kurt Schaffenberger was a special guest at the 1996 San Diego Comic Con.
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Kurt Schaffenberger's work won him the 1984 National Cartoonists Society Award in the "Comic Book" division.