1. Soloman "Sol" Brodsky was an American comic book artist who, as Marvel Comics' Silver Age production manager, was one of the key architects of the small company's expansion to a major popular culture conglomerate.
14 Facts About Sol Brodsky
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Sol Brodsky later rose to vice president, operations; and vice president, special projects.
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Sol Brodsky's accomplishments include co-creating, with letterer Artie Simek, the long-familiar logo of The Amazing Spider-Man, as well as other Marvel logos still in use in the mid-2000s.
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Sol Brodsky's earliest confirmed comics credit is inking a six-page Volton story in Holyoke Publishing's Cat-Man Comics vol.
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Sol Brodsky served in the US Army Signal Corps during World War II, advancing to the rank of corporal.
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Sol Brodsky was stationed on the USS Fairfax, but that destroyer was decommissioned to become the British Royal Navy ship HMS Richmond on November 26,1940, more than a year before the US entered the war.
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Stan was a one-man department, and with Sol Brodsky it became a two-man department.
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Sol Brodsky teamed with friend and fellow comic artist Mike Esposito to attempt launching a publishing company.
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Sol Brodsky had much more success with a series of promotional comic books he created and produced for the Big Boy restaurant chain.
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Sol Brodsky produced promotional comics for Bird's Eye frozen foods, featuring talking vegetables.
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In 1958, Sol Brodsky became founding editor of the satirical magazine Cracked.
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Sol Brodsky spent some time away from Marvel in the early 1970s.
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Occasional 1970s Marvel writer Allyn Sol Brodsky, who served as assistant to editor-in-chief Stan Lee, following Al Hewetson, is not related.
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Sol Brodsky is the man in the Hawaiian shirt at lower right, gesturing to the police.