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ARTIST: GRAY MORROW (1934–2001)
Born on March 7, 1934, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Gray Morrow had an accomplished career as a world-class fantasy artists whose work included comic books and comic strips, as well as covers for paperbacks, magazines, and science fiction digests. His eye-popping covers for the Perry Rhodan space opera series showcases his first-rate reputation as one of the best illustrators in the business.
He became an illustrator for such popular paperbacks and comics as Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant, and others. He created many illustrations for Galaxy, IF, and other digests in the science-fiction genre. In 1964, he became one of the regular artists for the Warren magazines, Creepy, Eerie and Blazing Combat.
Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s he worked for DC, Marvel and Archie Publications. He was also hired to assist on syndicated strips Rip Kirby, Prince Valiant, Big Ben Bolt, Secret Agent X-9 and Friday Foster. He took over the Buck Rogers strip in 1979.
GRAY MORROW VISIONARY, AUGUST 22, 2001
Beginning with his early science fiction cover paintings, Gray Morrow set a high standard for detail, technique, and design, and with an incredible run of over 100 cover paintings, he helped to define our vision of the sci-fi heroes. Gray Morrow: Visionary presents a huge sampling of his very best paintings, illustrations, comics and personal works in a high-quality art book that even includes a complete Buck Rogers story, fully painted by Gray.