Paul Gustavson née Karl Paul Gustafson (born August 16, 1916, Åland, Finland; died 1977) was an American-immigrant comic-book writer and artist. His most notable creations during the Golden Age of Comic Books were The Human Bomb for Quality Comics, and the Angel, who debuted in Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), the first publication of Marvel Comics forerunner Timely Comics. The Angel would star in more than 100 stories in the 1940s. The Human Bomb would later be acquired by DC Comics and make sporadic appearances as late as 2005. August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... Motto: None Anthem: Ã…länningens sÃ¥ng Capital Mariehamn Largest city Mariehamn Official language(s) Swedish Government Governor Premier Autonomous Province Peter Lindbäck Roger Nordlund Autonomy 1920 Area  â€¢ Total  â€¢ Water (%)   6,784 km² (n/a) 77. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing sequential art in the form of a narrative. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. ... Superman, the catalyst of the Golden Age, from Superman #14, January-February 1942. ... The Human Bomb (center) on the cover of Freedom Fighters #1 (April, 1976) The Human Bomb is a fictional superhero from the Golden Age of Comic Books. ... Crack Comics #1 (May, 1940), featuring the Clock, previously introduced as the first masked comic book superhero. ... The Angel (Golden Age) The Angel is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, created by writer-artist Paul Gustavson in Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. ... The first cover appearance of Namor the Sub-Mariner on Marvel Mystery Comics #4, February, 1940. ... It has been suggested that Felicia (pseudonym) be merged into this article or section. ... Timely Comics is the 1940s comic book publishing company that would evolve into Marvel Comics. ... The current DC Comics logo, adopted in May 2005. ...

Early life and career

Centaur Publications' Amazing Man Comics #22 (May 1941), cover art by Paul Gustavson

Emigrating to the U.S. with his family at age five, Gustavson (who modified his name when he entered comics) graduated from Quentin High School in New York City, and studied civil engineering at Manhattan's Cooper Union. Seguing to art at about age 17, he spent two to three years apprenticing under cartoonist Frank Owen, the husband of one of Gustavson's childhood friends in Finland. Gustavson assisted on Owen's Collier's Magazine humor spot, "Filbert". Image File history File links AmazingMan22. ... Image File history File links AmazingMan22. ... NYC and New York, New York redirect here. ... The Falkirk Wheel in Scotland. ... Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a privately funded college in Lower Manhattan of New York City. ... If youre looking for the TV show, see The Apprentice. ... A cartoonist at work. ... Colliers Weekly was a United States magazine that was published between 1888 and 1957. ...

Gustavson began working in the studio of the quirkily named Harry "A" Chesler, a "packager" of comic books for publishers testing the waters of the emerging medium. "I started at $12 a week", he told historian Jim Steranko, who interviewed him in the early 1970s. "It wasn't much but in those days it was enough for me. I stayed with Chesler for about two years and, during that time, worked with people like Jack Cole, Mort Meskin, Gill Fox, Fred Guardineer, Charlie Biro, and Bob Wood"¹. Harry A. Chesler, Jr. ... 1. ... Mass media is the term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). ... Captain America #111 (March 1969): Sterankos signature surrealism. ... The following persons are known under this name. ... Morton Meskin (May 1916 - May 1995) was a prolific comic book artist who worked on many recognizable characters through the Golden Age of Comics, well into the Silver Age of Comics. ... Gilbert T. Gill Fox (November 29, 1919-May 15, 2004) was an American political cartoonist, comic book artist and editor, and animator. ... Charles Biro is an American comic book writer, chiefly known for creating the wartime comic Airboy. ...

Creating characters

After getting married and beginning a family, Gustavson began working for another comics packager, Funnies, Inc., which supplied publisher Martin Goodman with the contents of Marvel Comics #1. The packager also supplied Centaur Publications, for which Gustavson created A-Man, the Arrow, Fantom of the Fair, and Man of War. Other notable work includes humor features in five early issues of DC's Action Comics, starting with issue #5 (Oct. 1938), and the two-page humor piece "Major Bigsbee an' Botts" in the oft-reprinted Batman #1 (Spring 1940). Funnies, Inc. ... Martin Goodman (born January 18, 1908, New York City; died June 6, 1992, Palm Beach, Florida) was an American publisher of pulp magazines, paperback books and comic books, launching the company that would become Marvel Comics. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Cover of Action Comics #1, which featured the debut of Superman. ... The DC Comics hero Batman (originally and still sometimes referred to as The Batman or The Bat-Man) is a fictional character who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ...

He later joined Quality Comics, one of DC's predecessors, where publisher "Busy" Arnold offered $25 a page. There Gustavson created the Human Bomb (premiering in Police Comics #1, Aug. 1941), aigning the earliest episodes with the pseudonym 'Paul Carroll. He wrote and drew the feature through September 1946. Gustavson also wrote/drew characters including Magno (premiering in Smash Comics #13, 1940); the Spider (premiering in Crack Comics #1, 1940); the Jester (in Smash Comics); and Rusty Ryan (in Feature Comics), whose uniform strongly evoked that of Captain America. Everett M. Busy Arnold (born May 20, 1890, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; deceased) was an early comic book entrepreneur and the publisher of Quality Comics during the 1930s and 1940s Golden Age of comic books. ... A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to his or her legal name. ... Writing is the process of inscribing characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other larger language constructs. ... Captain America, the alter ego of Steve Rogers (in some accounts Steven Grant Rogers), is a Marvel Comics superhero. ...

Gustavson, whose delicate, fine-line art resembles that of fellow Golden Age cartoonist Lou Fine, also worked on Blackhawk, Kid Eternity, Uncle Sam and other characters. Louis Kenneth Fine (born 1914, New York City; died July 24, 1971) is an American comic book artist known for his work during the 1940s Golden Age of comic books, where his quality draftsmanship became a highly influential model to a generation of fellow comics artists. ... The term Blackhawk can refer to: a native American leader (Black Hawk) the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter Blackhawk, a comic book Blackhawk is a make of car. ... Hit Comics #41 (July, 1946), Quality Comics Kid Eternity is a comic book superhero who first premired in Hit Comics #25, published by Quality Comics in December, 1942. ... In the Golden Age of Comic Books of the 1940s, Will Eisner created a superhero version of Uncle Sam for Quality Comics. ...

From 1942 to 1945, Gustavson did his World War II military service in the Air Tech Training Command, concurrently studying aerodynamics at Rutgers University. He returned to work for Quality afterward, and in early 1950s for the American Comics Group (AGC), doing humor features. Later that decade, he left the field to become a surveyor and civil engineer for New York State. Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 7 million military deaths World War II, also known as the Second World War (sometimes WW2 or WWII), was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as... Military service is service in the armed forces of a nation or the military arm of a political organization. ... Aerodynamics is a branch of fluid dynamics concerned with the study of gas flows, first analysed by George Cayley in the 1800s. ... Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is the largest institution for higher education in the U.S. state of New Jersey. ... American Comics Group (ACG) was a small publisher during the Golden and Silver Age of comic books that published several well-remembered characters and titles. ... Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. ... Surveying is concerned with the application of mathematics and physics in obtaining accurate measurements for the determination of the position of points on the Earths surface. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ...

His brother Nils collaborated with him on Centaur's Man of War.

Footnotes

• Note 1: The Steranko History of Comics 2 by Jim Steranko (Supergraphics, 1972), p. 99

References

• [www.lambiek.net/gustafson_paul.htm Lambiek Comiclopedia: Paul Gustafson (Paul Gustavson, Paul Earrol)]
• Don Markestein's Toonpedia: The Angel
• Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection: "Gus" to "Guvreaux"
• Alias the Spider
• The Grand Comics Database