Charles Wojtkoski
Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski (born December 6, 1921 , † June 21, 1985 ; pseudonym Charles Nicholas) was an American comic book author and illustrator. Wojtkoski was best known as the creator of the cartoon character Blue Beetle .
Life and work
Wojtkoski began working as a full-time comic artist in the 1930s. With the development of the series around the cheerful adventurer Blue Beetle , he achieved his greatest artistic success in 1939, at the age of only eighteen: the series that was first published by the Fox Feature Syndicate and later passed into the possession of Charlton Comics and DC-COMics one after the other , dropped a few hundred comic stories as well as a radio drama series and a few other offshoot products over the decades.
After participating in the Second World War, Wojtkowski drew for the Timely Comics publishing house (later Marvel Comics ), for which he had already drawn occasionally in the early 1940s. After the war he drew for the series Captain America Comics , Human Torch Comics , Marvel Mystery Comics and Sub-Mariner Comics . Prior to the war, he had drawn on USA Comics , Young Allioes Comics , Tough Kid Squad Comics, and Comedy Comics . He then moved to Charlton Comics. There he worked for more than twenty-three years in an artistic partnership with the ink pen Vince Alascia and the author Joe Gill , with whom he designed the jungle adventure series Nyoka .
In the 1980s, after the bankruptcy of Charlton Comics, he finally drew for a few years for the satirical magazine Cracked and for the Marvel series The Incredible Hulk . In addition, there were the illustrations for a hardcover book of the science fiction cartoon series Transformers .
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| SURNAME | Wojtkoski, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wojtkoski, Charles Nicholas; Nicholas, Charles (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comic book writer and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1921 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1985 |