Paul Reinman
Paul Reinman | |
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Born | Joseph Paul Reinmann September 2, 1910 German Empire |
Died | September 27, 1988 (aged 78) Lake Worth, Florida, U.S. |
Nationality | Naturalized American (immigrated German) |
Area(s) | Inker |
Paul J. Reinman
Biography
Early life and career
Paul Reinman was born in
Reinman married Dora, an immigrant from Reichelsheim, a city near Worms, in September 1938. The couple had a daughter born circa 1944.[3]
In the 1930s, Reinman entered the field of commercial art in New York, recalling in 1988,
My first job was as assistant to a designer of neon signs. Then the going got tough and I took any kind of job just to make ends meet, and I worked in the check room of an exclusive men's club on New York's East side … but luckily I had a chance to get back to art and I took a job in a studio of a match factory. Here I did designs of match covers and lettering. A few years later I quit and started to freelance in posters, fashion drawings, and package designs. Then I brushed up on my drawing technique and practiced illustration in many mediums. I succeeded in getting assignments for dry brush drawings for pulp mags, and following this I broke into comic-book cartooning.[3]
Golden Age of Comics
This was at
Also during this time, Reinman created or co-created (the writer is unknown) the superhero the Fireball in MLJ's Pep Comics #12 (Feb. 1941),[7] the first known of many characters and stories he would draw for that company throughout the 1940s period known as the Golden Age of Comic Books. Reinman drew for such MLJ titles as Blue Ribbon Comics, Hangman Comics, Jackpot Comics, Shield-Wizard Comics, Top-Notch Comics, and Zip Comics, on such characters as the Black Hood, the Hangman, and the Wizard.[6]
Reinman then began a long stint drawing for
His sporadic later work for Timely included
Atlas and the Silver Age
Comics historian Michael J. Vassallo cites the Atlas
"Atrocity Story" is not really a story at all, but rather a body of exposition in narrative form conveying information.... Chapman starts off with screaming headlines of brutal Communist atrocities done to U.S. and U.N. troops and unarmed civilians. He then draws comparisons to Nazi atrocities perpetrated by the Third Reich.... Paul Reinman renders this broadcast in newsreel fashion starting off with a magnificent full-page splash depicting a score of inhumanly bound and slaughtered U.S. Marines. The tempo picks up and using smaller and smaller panels, Reinman displays one atrocity after another. The panel-to-panel progression is swift and Reinman's art is crisp and starkly grim with dark shadowing in the inks. Page 5 is a disturbing eight-panel review of the atrocities on the Nazi concentration camps depicting dead camp victims and riveting single panels of hollow-eyed, skeletal survivors.[8]
With the late-1950s return of comics legend
In 1965, Reinman left Marvel and with
Reinman afterward returned to Marvel, where he remained active through at least the mid-1970s, penciling
Other work
Outside comic books, Reinman drew the Tarzan syndicated comic strip in 1949 and 1950, and the comic strip Merrie Chase in 1950 and 1951.[9] He taught at the C. & I. Art School for one year.[5] He had a number of exhibits of his fine art paintings in water color and oils.[5]
Personal life
Reinman married wife Dora (born April 18, 1912, Reichelsheim, Germany) in New York City on September 4, 1938. He was naturalized a United States citizen on June 10, 1940, with Dora naturalized the following year.[10]
Reinman's sister Alice and her husband Alex Leopold moved to Boca Raton, Florida, in Palm Beach County, and Reinman, following the death of wife Dora in September 1967 and his leaving comics in the mid-1970s, settled nearby with his second wife, Celia.[3][10] There, Reinman drew courtroom sketches for television-news broadcasts, as well as movie posters and advertising art.[3] Reinman died September 27, 1988, in Lake Worth, Florida.[10]
References
- ^ Social Security Number 127-09-2592, at the Social Security Death Indexvia FamilySearch.or. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
- ^ a b Paul J. Reinman at the Social Security Death Index via GenealogyBank.com
- ^ a b c d e f g Remez, Gideon (November 8, 2012). "A Find Unlocks Comics Mystery". Tablet. Nextbook. Archived from the original on June 13, 2013. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
- ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. Archived September 12, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b c Reinman, Paul (April 1966). "The Mighy Readers (letters to the editor page)". The Mighty Crusaders (4). Radio Comics Inc.
- ^ a b c d e f g Paul Reinman at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ Fireball at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on July 25, 2016.
- ^ Vassallo, Michael J. (May 4, 2013). "A History of Atlas War Comics (1950–1960)". Timely-Atlas-Comics. Archived from the original on August 20, 2013. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
- ^ Paul Reinman entry, The Comic Strip Project, "Who's Who of Comic Strip Producers"", R-1. WebCitation archive.
- ^ a b c Holtz, Allan; Jay, Alex (January 2, 2013). "Ink-Slinger Profiles: Paul Reinman". Stripper's Guide. Archived from the original on October 9, 2015. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
Further reading
- Alter Ego #42, November 2004
External links
- "Paul Reinman". Ask Art: The American Artists Bluebook. Archived from the original on July 16, 2012.
- Vassallo, Michael J. "Esoteric Atlas: Bible Tales for Young Folk", Comicartville Library, 2002, n.d. WebCitation archive.
- WebCitation archive of "Bob Hyde's Odyssey of a Tarzan Fanatic, Chapter XIV", ERBzin-e #621