Win Mortimer James Winslow Mortimer was a Canadian comic book and comic strip artist best known as one of the major illustrators of the DC Comics superhero Superman . He additionally drew for Marvel Comics , Gold Key Comics , and other publishers. He was a 2006 inductee into the Canadian comics creators Joe Shuster Hall of Fame .Biography Early life and career Win Mortimer was born in Hamilton, Ontario , Canada. Trained as an artist by his father, who worked for a lithography company, and at the Art Students League of New York , Mortimer found work as an illustrator after a short stint in the Canadian Army during World War II . Discharged in 1943, Mortimer found work designing posters.DC Comics Mortimer began working for DC Comics in 1945, and quickly became a cover artist for comics featuring Superman, Superboy and Batman . His first known comics work is as the penciler and inker of the 12-page lead Batman story, "The Batman Goes Broke" by writer Don Cameron , in Detective Comics #105 ; contractually credited to Bob Kane , it is also signed "Mortimer." The introduction of Batman's Batboat in Detective Comics #110 was another Cameron/Mortimer collaboration. Mortimer launched a Robin feature in Star-Spangled Comics #65. Calendar. He succeeded Wayne Boring on the Superman newspaper strip in 1949, leaving it in 1956 to create the adventure strip David Crane for the Prentice-Hall Syndicate. Following his run on that series, Mortimer produced the Larry Bannon strip for the Toronto Star beginning in 1960. During the same period, Mortimer returned to DC and worked on a large variety of comics, ranging from humor titles such as Swing with Scooter to superhero features starring the Legion of Super-Heroes and Supergirl . He and writer Arnold Drake co-created Stanley and His Monster in 1965.Later life and career By the early 1970s, Mortimer was also freelancing for other publishers. At Marvel, he drew virtually every story in the TV tie-in children's comic Spidey Super Stories , starring Spider-Man , for its entire 57-issue run as well as the short-lived Night Nurse series. Mortimer's work at Gold Key Comics included Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery and The Twilight Zone . He left comics in 1983 to do advertising and commercial art for Neal Adams' studio, Continuity Associates . Mortimer's last superhero art was the four-issue DC miniseries World of Metropolis , plus some character drawings for the reference Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes #7. His final comics work was penciling the four page "Noble Heart" story for The Big Book of Martyrs .Awards and honors Mortimer is a 2006 inductee into the Canadian comics' creators Joe Shuster Hall of Fame .DC Comics Action Comics #101, 113–114, 117, 119, 129; #378–387, 389–392; #475 Adventure Comics #119; #373–380; #381, 383–389, 391–396, 415; #421 The Adventures of Alan Ladd #2 All-American Men of War #106 Batman #33, 176, 304 The Best of DC #45 The Big Book Of Martyrs #1 Big Town #2–6 Binky #73 Binky's Buddies #5, 7–11 The Brave and the Bold #63–64, 69 Captain Storm #17 DC 100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-5 Detective Comics #105, 107, 109–112, 114–116, 120 Falling in Love #82, 98, 104, 112, 120 Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion #7, 11 The Fox and the Crow #94–98, 100–102, 106–108 Gang Busters #5–6, 9, 28, 47 Ghosts #89, 91, 94 Girls' Romances #141 Heart Throbs #110 House of Mystery #178, 204 Inferior Five #7–10 Leave It To Binky #71 Love Stories #147 Miss Beverly Hills of Hollywood #3–4, 7 Mr. District Attorney #8, 18, 43 My Greatest Adventure #8 Plastic Man #2–7 Real Fact Comics #5, 7–14, 19–20 Secret Hearts #133, 136, 139 Secrets of Haunted House #8 Stanley and His Monster #110 Star-Spangled Comics #65–91 Superman #50–52, 72 The Superman Family #185–188, 190–193; #187; #199–222 Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #150 Swing with Scooter #21, 23–24 The Unexpected #212 Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes #4, 6–7 The Witching Hour #4, 9, 22, 27 Wonder Woman #177 World of Metropolis #1–4 World's Finest Comics #20–26, 29–30, 43–48 Young Love #82–83, 87–88, 111, 114, 123, 126 Young Romance #150, 162, 208Gold Key Comics Battle of the Planets #1–5 Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom #15–27Marvel Comics The Amazing Spider-Man #220 Avengers Spotlight #37 Barbie #53 Dracula Lives #10–11 Giant-Size Chillers #1 Haunt of Horror #3 Journey into Mystery vol. 2 #4–5 Marvel Premiere #59 Marvel Super Special #23 Monsters Unleashed #3, 5 My Love #19, 21 Night Nurse #1–4 Spidey Super Stories #1–57 Spoof #4–5 Supernatural Thrillers #4 Tales of the Zombie #2, 4, 7 Vampire Tales #1, 5 What The--?! #8, 10, 14
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