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EARLY LIFE AND CAREER After attending art school, Mooney, circa 1941, left was working there, Nick Cardy (but at that time it was Nick Viscardy and on and on, and Eisner himself. I was beginning to feel that I was way, way in beyond my depth...." [http://www.adelaidecomicsandbooks.com/mooney.htm Mooney went on staff at Fiction House for approximately nine months, working on feature including "Camilla" and "Suicide Smith" and becoming friends with colleagues George Tuska , Ruben Moreira (a future '' Tarzan '' comic-strip artist), and Cardy. He began freelancing for Timely Comics , the 1940s predecessor of Marvel, on that company's "animation" comics of Funny Animal and movie-cartoon tie-in comics. He also wrote and drew a funny-animal feature, "Perky Penguin and Booby Bear", in 1946 and 1947 for '' Treasure Chest '', the Catholic -oriented comic book distributed in Parochial Schools . SUPERGIRL AND THE DC YEARS Mooney then began a 22-year association with the company that would evolve into DC. From 1946 to 1968 , he drew for such titles as '' Batman '' and '' Superboy '' and such features as " Dial H For Hero " in '' House Of Mystery '' and "Tommy Tomorrow" in '' Action Comics '' and '' World's Finest Comics '', and, most notably, the backup feature "Supergirl" in ''Action Comics''. (He also contributed to Atlas Comics , the 1950s iteration of Marvel, on at least a handful of 1953-54 issues of ''Lorna the Jungle Queen''.) By the late 1960s , Mooney recalled, DC was "getting into the illustrative type of art then, primarily Neal Adams , and they wanted to go in that direction. Towards the end there I picked up on it and I think my later ''Supergirl'' was quite illustrative, but not quite what they wanted. I knew the handwriting was on the wall, so I was looking around.... The reason I hadn’t worked at Marvel for all those years was because they didn’t pay as well as DC. ... I think at that time was $30 [a page when I was getting closer to $50 at DC." [http://www.adelaidecomicsandbooks.com/mooney.htm] SPIDER-MAN AND MARVEL By now, however, the rates were closer, and Mooney jumped ship. Marvel editor 's pencils on many issues of '' The Mighty Thor ''. As a penciler, Mooney did several issues of ''Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man'', as well as Spider-Man stories in '' Marvel Team-Up '', and he both penciled and inked issues of writer Steve Gerber 's '' Man-Thing '' and the entire 10-issue run of Gerber's cult-hit '' Omega The Unknown '', among many other titles. Mooney left Marvel in the late 1980s to semi-retire in Florida , where he has since worked on '' Star Rangers '' with Mark Ellis and '' Anne Rice's The Mummy '' for Millennium Publications, ''Soul Searchers'', an '' Elvira '' comic book for Claypool Comics , a retro "Lady Supreme" story for Awesome Entertainment, and commissioned pieces. REFERENCES
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