Dick Dillin

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Richard Allen "Dick" Dillin (born December 17, 1929 in Watertown , New York , † March 1, 1980 ) was an American comic artist .

Life and work

After graduating from Watertown High School, Dillin came to Japan , where he was stationed as a member of the US 8th Army in Tokyo , Yokohama and Okinawa . This was followed by studying at Syracuse University and working as an engineer in a factory for train brakes in Watertown.

At the end of the 1940s, Dillin and his wife Estella Dillin moved to New York City , where he worked as an illustrator for magazines and advertising materials before he got his first job as a full-time comic artist with the publishers Fawcett Comics and Fiction House. For Fawcett he drew the series Lance O'Casey and Ibis the Invincible published in the Whiz Comics , while he designed for Fiction House Buzz Bennett and Space Rangers . In 1952 he moved to Quality Comics, where he drew for the series Blackhawk , GI Combat , Love Confessions and Love Secrets .

In the 1960s, after Quality Comics ceased operations, Dillin moved to DC Comics , where he continued his work on Blackhawk - which had since been bought by DC. This was followed by work for World's Finest Comics and some Batman specials before Dillin got the job of regular draftsman for the popular series Justice League , which he drew from 1968 to 1980 over a stretch of 119 issues (# 64-183) with almost no interruption (only # 153 was designed by another draftsman, George Tuska). His most frequent artistic partner was the Inker Joe Giella , while the list of authors with whom Dillin frequently collaborated includes such names as Gerry Conway , Len Wein and Gardner Fox .

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SURNAME Dillin, Dick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dillin, Richard Allen (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Watertown , New York
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1980