Win Mortimer

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James Winslow "Win" Mortimer (born May 1, 1919 in Hamilton , Ontario , † January 11, 1998 ) was a Canadian cartoonist.

Life and work

Mortimer was trained as a professional draftsman and illustrator by his father, a lithographer, and at the Art Students League of New York . During the Second World War , Mortimer was briefly a member of the Canadian Army, from which he was discharged in 1943. He then designed advertising posters.

In 1945 Mortimer began working for the US publisher DC-Comics , for which he initially mainly designed the covers of various superhero comics. The earliest story to which Mortimer can definitely be assigned as a draftsman was the story "The Batman Goes Broke" written by Don Cameron , which appeared in Detective Comics # 105 in November 1945. In 1949 Mortimer took over from Wayne Boring the job of the illustrator of the Superman comic strip, which appeared in numerous American newspapers at the time, and which he supervised for a total of seven years until 1956. He then developed his own adventure comic strip David Crane , which was marketed by the Prentice-Hall Syndicate and which he worked on for five years. He then drew the strip Larry Brannon for seven years , which was reprinted in the Toronto Star from 1961 to 1968 .

In 1968 Mortimer returned to DC Comics, where he was employed as a draftsman on numerous series in a wide variety of genres in the following years. He drew for the humor titles Stanley and His Monster , Scooter and Fat Albert and the superhero series and features Legion of Super-Heroes and Supergirl . In the 1970s, Mortimer began working as a freelance draftsman for publishers other than DC. For Marvel Comics he drew the fifty-seven edition Spider-Man series Spidey Super Stories , which appeared from October 1974 to March 1982 and which was the comic book adaptation of the then Spider-Man television series. Mortimer took on comic series such as Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery and The Twilight Zone for Golden Key .

In 1983, Mortimer left the comic industry to create advertising designs and commercial art for Neal Adams Studio Continuity Associates. Mortimer's last comic book work for DC was the drawings for the four-part miniseries World of Metropolis , written by John Byrne , which was released by DC Comics from August to November 1988. His last work at all was the layouts for the June 1989 issue of The Honeymooners # 11 published by Triad Comics .

In 2006, Mortimer was posthumously inducted into the Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame, a kind of hall of fame for outstanding Canadian comic artists.