Arthur Peddy

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Arthur Peddy

Arthur F. Peddy

penciler of the superhero team the Justice Society of America for what later became DC Comics
.

Peddy began his art career during the late-1930s and 1940s that period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books and remained active in the medium into the 1970s, when he began concentrating on commercial art and advertising.

Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein
's 1965 painting Sound of Music is based on a Peddy comic-book panel.

Early life and career

Arthur Peddy entered the fledgling

Merlin the Magician, a descendant of Arthurian Merlin, in Quality's National Comics #8 (Feb. 1941). On his own he initially used the pseudonym Kenneth Julian for the police feature "Rookie Rankin" in Quality's Smash Comics before reverting to his real name.[5]

With an unknown writer, Peddy co-created the female superhero Phantom Lady in Quality's Police Comics #1 (Aug. 1941) and continued to draw her adventures through issue #13 (Nov. 1942).[5][6]

Peddy enlisted in the

European Theater of Operations through 1945, rising to the rank of technical sergeant.[7] His comics work, perhaps stockpiled, continued to appear in Quality and Fiction House comic books through at least cover-date August 1943.[5]

Postwar through 1960s

After the war, for Hillman Periodicals, Peddy had runs penciling the aviator hero Airboy and the muck-monster the Heap variously from 1946 to 1948.[5][8]

In 1947, Peddy additionally began penciling for

Avon Comics and others.[5]

Peddy and fellow comics artists

labor union in 1952, The Society of Comic Book Illustrators. Peddy served as vice president under Krigstein, with Harry Harrison as secretary, Larry Woromay as treasurer, and Ross Andru, Ernie Bache, John Celardo, Morrie Marcus and Bernard Sachs as members-at-large. The organization went defunct shortly after publication of its third and final newsletter in June 1953.[12]

The following year, Peddy and writer

Jann of the Jungle in Jungle Tales #1 (Sept. 1954).[13] He was among several comic-book artists who contributed to the short-lived, black-and-white, satiric-humor magazine Lunatickle, published by Whitestone Publishing and edited by Myron Fass, in 1956,[14] but otherwise continued to pencil standard color comics across a number of genres. He gradually specialized in war comics and romance comics for publisher DC Comics through 1957, and thereafter drew almost exclusively romance comics for DC's Falling in Love, Girls' Romances, Heart Throbs and Secret Hearts through at least 1968. His romance work continued on in reprints into the mid-1970s.[5]

Commercial and advertising art

Throughout the 1960s, Peddy began adding commercial and advertising art to his workload, primarily

Quaker Oats, and DuPont.[15] From 1970 to 1979, he worked for the advertising firm BBDO.[4]

Personal life

Peddy married the widowed Joanne Posner in April 1987, becoming stepfather to her sons Michael and Bruce Posner.[16]

He died May 15, 2002, in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut.[17]

Legacy

Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's 1965 painting Sound of Music is based on a Peddy comic-book panel.[18][19]

References

  1. from the original on April 7, 2016.
  2. ^ Arndt, Richard J. (May 2015). "Remembering Arthur Peddy: A Talk with the Godlen Age Artist's Stepson, Michael Posner". Alter Ego. No. 152. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 31. First two pages online.
  3. U.S. Social Security Death Index
    via FamilySearch.com. Retrieved on March 10, 2017. Click on subject's name for full record with birthplace.
  4. ^ a b Bails, Jerry; Ware, Hames (eds.). "Art Peddy". Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999. Archived from the original on March 12, 2017. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Arthur Peddy and Art Peddy at the Grand Comics Database.
  6. ^ Phantom Lady at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March 10, 2017.
  7. ^ Posner in Arndt, p. 32.
  8. ^ "Arthur Peddy Checklist" in Arndt, p. 42.
  9. ^ Bails, Jerry; Ware, Hames. "Esposito, Mike". Archived from the original on May 11, 2007. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
  10. ^ Bails, Ware, Who's Who, "Peddy and Sachs Studio.
  11. ^ "Arthur Peddy Checklist" in Arndt, p. 41.
  12. ISBN 978-1604732672. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help
    )
  13. ISBN 978-0785150121, some reference sources had credited artist Jay Scott Pike
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  15. ^ Posner in Arndt, p. 37.
  16. ^ Arndt, pp. 31-32.
  17. ^ "Arthur F. Peddy". Crestleaf.com. Archived from the original on March 12, 2017. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  18. ^ Barsalou, David (2000). "Arthur Peddy". Deconstructing Lichtenstein. Archived from the original on March 10, 2017.
  19. ^ "Sound of Music". The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. Archived from the original on July 12, 2016. Retrieved March 10, 2017.

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