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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 Publisher s. 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. REFERENCES
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