In 1938, BIll took a job as Art Editor for Radio News Magazine, owned by Teck
Publications (which later became Ziff-Davis). Bill went to Chicago, working under Herm Bollin.
The pair did not get along, Bill was let go, and returned to New York.
Bill met former
Teck employee, Walter Holze, who got Bill his first comics-related job at John Harley
Productions, who produced the CENTAUR line of books. Here, Bill worked on 'Skyrocket Steele'
and 'Amazing Man'.
From there, Bill started an art service, Funnies, Inc. with a
group of people including Lloyd Jacquet (editor at Centaur), Carl Burgos (Human Torch creator),
Paul Gustafson, Ben Thompson. They took a small loft office on 45th Street in New York.
Here, Bill produced Motion Pictures Funnies Weekly, the comic which had the
Sub-Mariner's first appearance. Funnies, Inc. produced the work for MARVEL
COMICS #1 ('39) for Martin Goodman's TIMELY COMICS.
It wasn't until 1940 that Timely owner, Martin Goodman, dropped
Bill's account to set up his own production staff. This started Bill's lengthy run at
the company known as Timely, then Atlas, then Marvel. Now, witness Bill's earliest work...
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