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

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the next two years.[4] In 2019, TwoMorrows Publishing released Jack Kirby's Dingbat Love, a collection of previously unpublished work which Kirby had drawn for DC Comics in the 1970s.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

Bill Spicer

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

Pacific Comics

Texas Trio

TwoMorrows Publishing

References

  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 "Jack Kirby's Dingbat Love: Unpublished '70s Stories by the King of Comics!".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 byMike Royer Kamandi inker 1974–1976 Succeeded byMike Royer Preceded byMike Royer OMAC inker 1974–1975 Succeeded byMike Royer Preceded byVince Colletta Captain America inker 1975–1976 Succeeded byFrank Giacoia
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