Bill Everett
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Bill Everett, also known as William Blake and Everett Blake (born May 18, 1917, Cambridge, Massachusetts; died February 27, 1973) was a comic book writer-artist best known for creating the Namor the Sub-Mariner and co-creating Daredevil for Marvel Comics.
After studying at Boston's Vesper George School of Art from 1934-35, Everett dropped out to begin freelancing in New York City. In 1939, during what's become known as the Golden Age of comic books, Everett he co-created the character Amazing Man at Centaur Publications, working with company art director Lloyd Jacquet. Jacquet would soon leave to form Funnies, Inc., one of the first comic-book "packagers" that would create comics on demand for publishers. Everett and others came along.
At Funnies, Inc., Everett created the Sub-Mariner for an aborted project, Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1, a planned promotional comic to be given away in movie theaters. When plans changed, Everett used his character instead for Funnies, Inc.'s first client, pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman — expanding the original eight-page story by four pages for Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), the first publication of what Goodman would eventually call Timely Comics, the 1940s precursor of Marvel.
In Marvel's Menace #5, back when the company was known as "Atlas", Everett introduced a one-shot character, Simon Garth, the titular "Zombie!". This character was revived shortly before Everett's death in a black and white magazine, Tales of the Zombie by Steve Gerber (with assistance from Roy Thomas) and Pablo Marcos.
References
- ["A Tribute to Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner's Father" by Monique Pryor]
- "Everett on Everett", originally published in Alter Ego Vol. 1, #11, 1978; reprinted in Alter Ego Vol. 3, #46 (March 2005), pp. 5-34
- "Bill Everett: The Ancient Sub-Mariner — A Tribute by Roy Thomas", Vol. 3, #46 (March 2005), p. 35
- [The Deep Six Project: A Biography of Namor McKenzie, The Sub-Mariner]
- [Jess Nevins' The Timely Comics Story]
- [Marvel Masterworks Resource Pages]
- [Comic Books on Microfiche: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Dept. of Special Collections] Note: The listing for Amazing Man Comics #5 (Sept. 1939) says the comic continues the numbering of the unreleased Motion Picture Funnies Weekly
- [A Timely Talk with Allen Bellman]
- [The Grand Comic-Book Database]
- All in Color for a Dime by Dick Lupoff & Don Thompson ISBN 0873414985
- The Comic Book Makers by Joe Simon with Jim Simon ISBN 1887591354
- Ron Goulart's Great History of Comic Books by Ron Goulart ISBN 0809250454
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