Fred Kida

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Fred Kida
Fred Kida, late in life
Born(1920-12-12)December 12, 1920
Brooklyn, New York City
DiedApril 3, 2014(2014-04-03) (aged 93)
Area(s)Penciller, Inker
Pseudonym(s)Kid, KID
Notable works
Airboy

Fred Kida (December 12, 1920 – April 3, 2014) was a

Dan Barry on the long-running strip Flash Gordon
from 1958 to 1961 and then again from 1968 to 1971.

Biography

Air Fighters Comics vol. 2, #2 (Nov. 1943): A typically cleavage-baring Valykrie provides the "latest war thrills". Cover art by Kida

Early life and career

Born on December 12, 1920,

penciled and inked his first known credited work, the feature "Phantom Clipper" in Military Comics #9 (April 1942).[5]

Airboy and afterward

In 1942, he joined

Axis aviatrix who soon defected and became his ally.[7]

Atlas Comics' Willie the Wiseguy #1 (Sept. 1957): Cover artist Kida in a cartoony vein.

Kida remained on the feature through 1948, afterward working with writer Biro on such Hillman

Bible stories.[5]

Kida returned to Marvel in the 1970s, primarily as an inker, working on such characters as

Grand Director in Marvel's The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #17 (Aug. 1987).[5]

Comic strips

In addition to his comic-book work, Kida in 1941 was one of writer-artist

The Spirit;[8] and from 1946-47 assisted Fujitani (also known as "Bob Wells") on the comic strip Judge Wright.[9] He also briefly assisted Milton Caniff on the strip Steve Canyon.[8]

Most prominently, Kida assisted

Dan Barry on the long-running strip Flash Gordon from 1958 to 1961 and then again from 1968 to 1971,[5] and under his own byline drew the comic strip The Amazing Spider-Man from August 1981 to July 1986,[10] returning to do the Sunday editions from September 1996 to July 1997.[11]

Personal life

Kida married Elly Ahnert on October 5, 1946, and they had two children, Paul and Peter.[3] An elder in the Port Chester Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, he died on April 3, 2014.[3]

Reprints include

  • Fred Kida's Valkyrie! (Ken Pierce, Inc., 1982)
Black-and-white reprints of selected stories from Air Fighters Comics vol. 2, #2 & 7; and Airboy Comics vol. 2, #12, and vol. 3, #6 & 12. Introduction by Alex Toth.

References

  1. . Signing himself 'Fuje', [artist Bob Fujitani] and his Japanese-American buddy Fred Kida contributed to the war effort by illustrating a flood of comic-book heroes beating up the Nazis and Japanese.
  2. ^ from the original on September 11, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c "Fred Kida Obituary". Greenwich Time. April 9, 2014. Archived from the original on April 13, 2014. Retrieved 2014-04-09.
  4. ^ Bob Fujitani interview in Amash, Jim (April 2003). "Fuje For Thought". Alter Ego. Vol. 3, no. 23. Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 4. (flipside "All the Way with MLJ!" section)
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Fred Kida at the Grand Comics Database
  6. ^ The Iron Ace at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on October 25, 2011.
  7. ^ Airboy at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on October 25, 2011.
  8. ^ a b Leiffer, Paul; Ware, Hames, eds. (1999). "Comic Strip Credits S-Z". The Comic Strip Project. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved May 8, 2013. {{cite web}}: |first2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Main page archived from the original on July 4, 2012.
  9. ^ Leiffer, Ware, "Comic Strip Credits E-K". Archived March 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ^ Cassell, Dewey (October 2010). "One Day at a Time: The Amazing Spider-Man Newspaper Strips". Back Issue! (44). TwoMorrows Publishing: 65.
  11. ^ Sinnott, Mark; Markus Müller. "Spider-Man Newspaper Strips". Joe Sinnott Comics Book Index 1950 - 2005. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011.

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