Stan Goldberg was an American comic book artist, best known for his work with Archie Comics and as a Marvel Comics colorist who in the 1960s helped design the original color schemes of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and other major characters.
14 Facts About Stan Goldberg
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Stan Goldberg was inducted into the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame in 2011.
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Stan Goldberg graduated from the School of Industrial Art high school in Manhattan.
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In 1949, when "I think I just turned 17 or I was still 16 at the time, I don't remember," Stan Goldberg began work in the comics field as a staff colorist for Marvel's 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, working under Jon D'Agostino.
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Stan Goldberg went freelance in 1958, and enrolled again in the School of Visual Arts, this time to study TV storyboarding and where one instructor was influential Batman artist Jerry Robinson.
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At the time, Stan Goldberg was doing occasional work for the Archie Comics people, and they didn't like to see their artists drawing in that style for other publishers.
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Stan Goldberg stopped freelancing for Marvel in 1969, and for three years drew the DC Comics teen titles Date with Debbi, Swing with Scooter and Leave It to Binky.
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Stan Goldberg drew the Archie Sunday newspaper comic strip for a time beginning in 1975.
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In 1994, Stan Goldberg was chosen to pencil Archie Comics' portion of the intercompany crossover Archie Meets the Punisher, a one-shot in which the gritty, homicidal Marvel vigilante finds himself pursuing an Archie Andrews look-alike into bucolic Riverdale.
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Stan Goldberg penciled a six-page Betty story, "I'll Take Manhattan", published August 17,2003, in The New York Times' Fashion of the Times magazine supplement.
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Stan Goldberg's posthumously published new work includes an Archie Comics-styled Spider-Man story, "That Parker Boy", written by Tom DeFalco and inked by Scott Hanna, in Marvel's 75th Anniversary Special, scheduled for publication in October 2014.
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Stan Goldberg was the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame inductee for 2011, which is accompanied by the organization's Gold Key Award, presented to Stan Goldberg on May 26,2012.
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Stan Goldberg suffered injuries in an automobile accident in 2013, but made a full recovery.
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Stan Goldberg died at Calvary Hospital in The Bronx at the age of 82 on August 31,2014, the result of a stroke he had suffered two weeks prior.