Lee (Leopold) Elias - Artist Info

About Lee (Leopold) Elias

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    Lee Elias (b. 1920 / d.1998)

    Lee Elias was born on May 21, 1920. When he was a young boy, he moved from Manchester, England to New York City where Elias studied first art at the Cooper Union and then the Art Students League.

    In 1943, he started working at Fiction House illustrating comics. In Wing Comics, he succeeded Bob Lubbers working on the feature Captain Wings ; he also worked on the Western hero Firehair.

    When Elias in 1946 left Fiction House and worked for various comic companies such as: Timely Comics, Hillman and National/DC, he worked on the characters Flash, Tommy Tomorrow and Black Canary.

    His best known comic strip was Beyond Mars, ran from 1952 to 1955. Elias' work on com...

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