A favorite artist of mine from the Golden Age/Pre-Code era is artist Matt Baker. He died in 1959 at the age of 37.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Baker_(artist)But left behind a huge body of work in just 15 years. His professional comics career began in 1944.
I especially love his work for Fiction House on titles like :
JUNGLE COMICS
"Camilla" series in 69, 100-113, 115-116,
"Tiger Girl" series in 152-153, 155-157, 159.
"Wambi" series in 62-67, 74.
FIGHT COMICS
"Kayo Kirby" series in 43-64.
"Tiger Girl" series in 36-60, 62, 64
JUMBO COMICS (not yet available online)
"Sky Girl" series in 69-78, 80-130
WINGS COMICS
"Skull Squad" series in 52-60
"Clipper Kirk" series in 60-61
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And PHANTOM LADY, for the publisher Fox (1947-1949)
13-23 (Not linked, but prominent in Wertham's
Seduction of the Innocent. )
And his one issue of CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED
issue 32, LORNA DOONE Dec 1946, 46 pages!
