Comic book/comic strip illustrator and writer Larry Lieber was born October 26, 1931, in New York City, growing up in the Bronx and Washington Heights. He is the younger brother of Stan Lee (Lieber), the publisher and creator of many Marvel Comics superheroes. Larry Lieber studied at the Pratt Art Institute, Brooklyn, New York, and the Art Students League, New York City. Beginning in 1951, he spent four years in the Air Force during the Korean War era, two years in Okinawa, before pursuing his chosen field. While also teaching, Lieber wrote and drew stories about monsters, heroes, cowboys and love.

In 1962, Lieber's first super-hero work was Thor in Journey into Mystery, #83, but he also wrote and drew stories for characters like The Human Torch; Tales of the Watch; the Was; Tales to Astonish; Ant-Man; and Giant-Man; before moving to The Rawhide Kid.

Lieber wanted his Western character, The Rawhide Kid, begun by Stan Lee, to be serious, though it had, in fact, its humorous moments. Attracted to writers like Paddy Chayevsky, Rod Serling and Sterling Siliphant, Lieber wanted readers to respond to the "Rawhide Kid" like they might to the movie, "High Noon."

Lieber liked working on Westerns more than super-heroes like Thor and Spider-Man because the Western was a real story, more grounded in reality than, as Lieber comments, "a guy who could fly."

Westerns had their technical, and, therefore, financial drawbacks. Jack Kirby, the whiz of Marvel Comics for whom Lieber wrote stories from Stan Lee's plots, could draw six pencil pages of monster stories a day, but only five pages of Westerns because of the complications of drawing gunbelts. But, despite the "gunbelt problem," Kirby was very fast, often drawing faster than Lieber could write.

In the mid-1970s, after failing to get enough work at Marvel Comics, Larry Lieber joined Atlas Comics as an editor where, after a career in color work, he had to adapt to black and white comics. When the company went out of business a year or two later, Lieber was back at Marvel Comics, also as an editor.

For the names of some of his characters, Lieber would recombine parts of foreign names from the biography section in the back of the dictionary.

His first daily newspaper comic was The Incredible Hulk. Lieber would later follow illustrator Fred Kida in drawing the daily Spider-Man comic strip, distributed by King Features and written by his older brother. Lieber also wrote and penciled the stories, later inking them as well. Lieber did early inking work before going in the service in 1951 on Millie the Model and Tessie the Typist, but only did "serious" inking on the Spider-Man comic strip.

While the comic field has changed, Lieber has evolved with it. His working relationship with his brother, Stan Lee, is better than ever.

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