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D. Bruce Berry

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D. Bruce Berry
BornDouglas Bruce Berry
January 24, 1924
Oakland, California
DiedSeptember 30, 1998(1998-09-30) (aged 74)
Long Beach, California
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Penciller, Inker, Letterer
Notable works
Kamandi
OMAC
Awards1964 Alley Award "Best Fan Comic Strip"

Douglas Bruce Berry[1] (January 24, 1924[2] – September 30, 1998)[3] was an American comic book artist who is best known as the inker of several of Jack Kirby's comic book series in the 1970s.

Biography

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D. Bruce Berry was born in Oakland, California and served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.[3] He worked in the advertising industry for 29 years[1] and drew for various fanzines including Bill Spicer's Fantasy Illustrated in 1963–1964.[4] Berry and Spicer collaborated with Eando Binder on an Adam Link story which won the 1964 Alley Award in the category "Best Fan Comic Strip".[5] In the late 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles.[3] He began inking and lettering Jack Kirby's Kamandi series as of issue #16 (April 1974) and worked with Kirby for the next two years.[4] In 2019, TwoMorrows Publishing released Jack Kirby's Dingbat Love, a collection of previously unpublished work which Kirby had drawn for DC Comics in the 1970s. This included a "Dingbats of Danger Street" story inked by Berry.[6]

Bibliography

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Bill Spicer

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  • Fantasy Illustrated #1–2 (1963–1964)

DC Comics

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Marvel Comics

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Pacific Comics

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Texas Trio

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  • Star-Studded Comics #6 (1965)

TwoMorrows Publishing

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References

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  1. ^ a b Bails, Jerry (n.d.). "Berry, D. Bruce". Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928–1999. Archived from the original on January 2, 2017.
  2. ^ Morrow, John (November 1997). "D. Bruce Berry Speaks". The Jack Kirby Collector (17). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 36.
  3. ^ a b c "Berry, D. Bruce. D. Bruce Berry drawings of space ships, 1958: Guide". Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton Library, Harvard University. February 17, 2015. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  4. ^ a b D. Bruce Berry at the Grand Comics Database
  5. ^ "1964 Alley Awards". Hahn Library Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on June 16, 2016.
  6. ^ Carlson, KC (February 28, 2020). "Jack Kirby's Dingbat Love: Unpublished '70s Stories by the King of Comics!". Comicsworthreading.com. Archived from the original on August 2, 2020.
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Preceded by Kamandi inker
1974–1976
Succeeded by
Mike Royer
Preceded by
Mike Royer
OMAC inker
1974–1975
Succeeded by
Mike Royer
Preceded by Captain America inker
1975–1976
Succeeded by