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Sheldon Mayer (/ ˈ m eɪ. ər /; April 1, 1917 – December 21, 1991) was an American comics artist, writer, and editor. One of the earliest employees of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson 's National Allied Publications , Mayer produced almost all of his comics work for the company that would become known as DC Comics .
- Writer, Penciller, Editor
- December 21, 1991 (aged 74), Copake, New York, U.S.
- April 1, 1917, New York City, U.S.
Sheldon Mayer (1917-1991) was an American comics artist, writer, and editor. One of the earliest employees of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's National Allied Publications, Mayer produced almost all of his comics work for the company that would become known as DC Comics.
Sheldon Mayer died in 1991, at the age of 74. American comic book writer, artist, and editor Sheldon Mayer was born on 1 April 1917, in New York City. Shelly Mayer's first comic artwork was created when he was an assistant for several New York newspaper cartoonists, including Ving Fuller, between 1932 and 1935.
- He went to work in comics as a kid. At the tender age of 18, Shelly got a job at National, the precursor to DC Comics, and produced some of the first, original material for the American industry around 1935.
- He was one of Superman’s champions. Shelly was one of those individuals who saw a piece of work making its rounds of the fledgling industry and went nuts for it.
- He was mentor to the cream of comics’ crop. Shelly’s stable of creators, the guys he helped shepherd to greatness, is an amazing Who’s Who list: Mart Nodell, Gardner Fox, Harry Lampert, Sheldon Moldoff, Bill Finger, Irwin Hasen, Joe Kubert, just to name a fantastic few.
- He oversaw the creation of comic book icons. While editor at All-American, Shelly worked with the aforementioned creators to launch such seminal superheroes as the Green Lantern, the Flash, Hawkman, Johnny Thunder, Wonder Woman, the Atom, and Wildcat.
Jun 18, 2012 · The artist was my Connecticut then-neighbor Gil Kane. Mayer had hired Gil when he was still in his teens, and when the strip started appearing in Mayer’s upstate New York local paper, he’d phone me and talk, in his gravely tough-guy voice, about the feature. Always an editor at heart, Mayer would give me advice for Gil, mostly about his ...
Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Sheldon Mayer. Sheldon Mayer is best remembered as the creator of Sugar & Spike. But his comic book career includes far more than …. continued below. … cartooning of this sort — in fact, more than just cartooning. Mayer has excelled not just as a writer and an artist, with widely varied output. He was also the ...
The Sheldon Mayer collections featuring “Sugar and Spike” comic strips was auctioned for $284,452 last Thursday by Nate D. Sanders Auctions. The highest price realized was an Original "Scribbly" artwork from September 1939, which sold for $29,845. These iconic four pages of Scribbly appeared as four complete stories in the #6 issue ...
