About Ross Andru

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    Ross Andru (1927-1993)

    Working in animation, he eventually decided to focus on comics and attended courses at the School of Visual Arts. His first job was doing the weekly Tarzan page for Burne Hogarth starting in 1948. Three years later he started a long-time cooperation with Mike Esposito, who inked most of Andru's artwork from then on. They started out creating Mister Universe and Mister Mistery for Media Publications, and cooperated on Joe Yank for Standard Comics, while also doing romance stories for Ziff-Davis and Fawcett.

    In 1952, they started working for D.C. Comics, which Andru continued until 1971. With Esposito, he co-created Sgt. Rock for Our Army At War, and also cont...

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