Joe Certa
Joe Certa (1919 - 1986) was an American comic artist .
Life and work
Certa was trained as a professional comic artist at the Art Students League in the early 1940s. In the mid-1940s he began working as a draftsman for publishers specializing in humorous comics. For Lev Gleason he drew various crime comic series, for Magazine Enterprises he designed the series Dan'l Boone and The Durango Kid , for Fawcett Comics he shot several issues of the series Captain Marvel Jr. and for Harvey Comics he worked on countless comics that had love and mystery stories as their content.
Certa worked for DC Comics in the 1950s and 1960s . For this he drew stories for the series Captain Compass , Gang Busters and Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'onzz) . Certa helped develop the main character of the last-mentioned series, the Martian John Jones, alias J'onn J'onzz, who lives on earth as a private detective with fantastic superpowers.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Certa switched to drawing mystery and ghost stories for the publisher Dell Comics. Certa also designed some newspaper comic strips such as Straight Arrow .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Certa, Joe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1919 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1986 |