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Lieber is best known for scripting the First Appearance s of the Marvel characters Iron Man and Thor ; for his long stint both writing and drawing the Marvel Western '' The Rawhide Kid ''; and for illustrating the Newspaper Comic Strip '' The Amazing Spider-Man '' for many years. In the mid-1970s, he became editor of rival Atlas/Seaboard Comics , which spurred revolutionary changes in comics-creator rights during its brief existence. EARLY LIFE AND CAREER Larry Lieber attended art school at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and at Manhattan 's Art Students League . He then did Military Service with the U.S. Air Force for four years. SILVER AGE SCRIPTING TK ATLAS/SEABOARD COMICS In 1974, Lieber left Marvel to take on an editorship at Atlas/Seaboard, the term that comic book historians and collectors use to refer to the "Atlas Comics" line published by Seaboard Periodicals, to differentiate it from the 1950s Marvel Comics predecessor Atlas Comics . Marvel Comics founder and longtime publisher Martin Goodman had left Marvel in 1972, having sold the company in 1968, and launched this new company in June 1974 to go head-to-head with Marvel and DC Comics . He hired Lieber to be as editor of the Atlas black-and-white comics- Magazines , and additionally hired Warren Publishing veteran Jeff Rovin to edit the color comic-book line, which soon fell under Lieber's editorship. As Lieber, in a 1999 interview, described his experience as editor {Link without Title} :
Daily Strip from 2004. Art by Larry Lieber (pencils) and Alex Saviuk (inks).]] REFERENCES |
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