1. Morris S Weiss was an American comic book and comic strip artist and writer.
13 Facts About Morris Weiss
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Morris Weiss worked as a writer or illustrator on numerous other strips, including Joe Palooka.
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Morris Weiss was born in 1915 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in New York City, New York, where he studied sign-painting as a vocational elective in high school.
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Morris Weiss broke into the comics field in 1934 with brief stints as the letterer for the comic strip Minute Movies by Ed Wheelan, and as an assistant on the Joe Jinks comic strip; in the early 1940s, United Features Syndicate hired him to draw Joe Jinks.
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Morris Weiss was the inker and assistant on cartoonist Lank Leonard's Mickey Finn from 1936 to 1943, and again from 1960 on.
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Morris Weiss took over the strip following Leonard's retirement in 1968, continuing through the final Sunday strip on December 21,1975, and the daily strip's finale on July 31,1976.
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Morris Weiss went on to do numerous stories featuring Tessie and her friend Skidsy, and created the teen-humor feature "Margie", which ran in Margie Comics, Georgie Comics and Patsy Walker.
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About this time Morris Weiss was contacted separately by both Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, the creators of Superman, each of whom were interested in collaborating with him on a comic strip.
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At various times Morris Weiss turned down opportunities to continue strips such as Terry and the Pirates and Nancy after the departure of their creators.
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Morris Weiss occasionally assisted Al Smith on Mutt and Jeff.
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Morris Weiss wrote the dramatic continuity for Joe Palooka from about 1962 to 1970, with Tony DiPreta drawing the strip.
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Morris Weiss befriended a host of notable artists, including James Montgomery Flagg, who drew Morris Weiss's portrait, Charles Voight, Milton Caniff, Ernie Bushmiller, and Edwina Dumm.
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Morris Weiss died at his home in West Palm Beach, Florida, on May 18,2014.