Syd Shores (1913-1973) was best known to Silver Age fans as a regular inker on Marvel titles, but he was also a Golden Age penciler who drew Marvel’s earliest superheroes. He began as an assistant to Mac Raboy in the Harry Chesler shop and drew his first story for Marvel/Timely’s Mystic Comics #5 in 1941. He was initially an inker on Captain America Comics but took over as penciler when Jack Kirby and Joe Simon left in 1942. He was a co-creator of Blonde Phantom. Shores drew a range of titles through the 1950s and 1960s, and his inking, whether for himself or other pencilers, had a gritty quality that also lent itself to Westerns (Red Wolf, Two-Gun Kid), war comics (Battle) and horror stories (Tower of Shadows). He was inducted into the Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame in 2023.
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