Seymour "Sy" Barry was born on March 12,1928 and is an American comic-book and comic-strip artist, best known for being the artist of the strip The Phantom for more than three decades.
10 Facts About Sy Barry
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Sy Barry was born in New York City in 1928, and is the brother of comics artist Dan Barry, who drew the Flash Gordon comic strip.
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Sy Barry attended high school at the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan, New York City beginning in 1943.
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Sy Barry began his professional career as his brother's art assistant, and by the late 1940s was working on his own as a freelance comic-book artist, primarily as an inker for publishers including Lev Gleason, the Marvel Comics precursor Timely Comics, and the DC Comics precursor National Comics.
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Sy Barry assisted his brother Dan on the Tarzan comic strip from United Feature Syndicate and the Flash Gordon comic strip from King Features Syndicate.
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Sy Barry was hired by Capp Studio to draw Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, a comics pamphlet published in 1957.
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Sy Barry's signature was visible on the cover of the pamphlet's first edition, but a text box covered it in later printings.
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In 1961, upon the death of The Phantom artist Wilson McCoy, who had succeeded artist Ray Moore, King Features hired Sy Barry to take over that strip.
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Sy Barry remained on it for more than 30 years until his retirement in 1994.
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Sy Barry frequently used pencil artists on the strip, working primarily as an inker, though he often drew entire stories when time permitted.