1. Ross Andru was an American comics artist and editor whose career in comics spanned six decades.
23 Facts About Ross Andru
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Ross Andru is best known for his work on The Amazing Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and The Metal Men, and for having co-created the character called The Punisher.
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Ross Andru was born in Highland Park, Michigan on June 15,1927, the third of Alexander and Glafire Androuchkevitch's three children.
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Ross Andru grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, raised by Russian emigre parents who came to the US in 1926.
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Ross Andru joined the US Army in 1945, and was discharged in 1946.
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In 1947, Ross Andru attended the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, studying under Burne Hogarth.
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In 1946, Ross Andru worked for an animation studio in Manhattan drawing artwork for Chiclets chewing gum commercials.
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Ross Andru would lay it out then Burne would ink it with his approach.
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Ross Andru came to me when I started publishing and we more or less teamed up'.
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Ross Andru drew early issues of Rip Hunter, Time Master in 1961, and the Sea Devils.
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In 1976, Andru penciled the first large-scale comic book Intercompany crossover, Superman vs the Amazing Spider-Man, in a story written by Conway and co-published by Marvel and DC.
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In 1978, Ross Andru returned to DC to work as an editor, a position he held until 1986.
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In 1981, Ross Andru contributed to the DC Super Heroes Super Healthy Cookbook, illustrating various Justice League characters as they explained food recipes to a 4th to 6th grade audience.
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Ross Andru was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series in 1986.
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In 1992, the graphic novel Spider-Man: Fear Itself, pencilled by Ross Andru, inked by Esposito, plotted by Conway and scripted by Stan Lee was published.
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Ross Andru's last published work was for Archie Comics' Zen, Intergalactic Ninja in 1992, on which he was teamed with Esposito.
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The project fell apart after Ross Andru's passing but was revived years later in song by a band called Fling Lois.
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Ross Andru had a terrific sense of spatial relations; he could track a battle easily across rooftops, from panel to panel.
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Ross Andru drew some great sequences where he maintained the same stationary background, a rooftop or a street, across an entire page, but move the characters from panel to panel.
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Ross Andru used to go around New York City taking pictures of the buildings so he could be accurate about where he put Spider-Man.
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Ross Andru suffered a brain aneurysm and died on November 9,1993, in Jamaica Bay, Queens County, New York.
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Ross Andru's body was cremated and interred at the Fresh Pond Crematory and Columbarium, Middle Village, Queens County, New York.
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Ross Andru was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2007.