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Edd Ashe

American cartoonist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Edd Ashe, born Edmund Marion Ashe Jr., (August 11, 1908 – September 4, 1986) was a creator of comic strips and a comic book artist in the United States.[1] He wrote the strip Guy Fortune that ran in the Pittsburgh Courier from August 19, 1950, until October 22, 1955. He also illustrated The American Weekly.[2]

He was born in Norwalk, Connecticut.[2] His father was an artist and head of Carnegie Tech's art department.[3]

He was a white Golden Age comic book artist.[4] He and Nathaniel Nitkin created Bomber Burns.[5]

His second marriage was to Beatrice Bishop in 1941. She was the daughter of a prominent hotelier on Long Island and died February 8, 1983.[2]

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Guy Fortune

The Guy Fortune comic strip was about a secret agent who was African American. It was pioneering.[6] A 1955 strip features Fortune in Pakistan teaching a young prince baseball.[7]

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