RIP Dick Ayers

Another legend has passed. I say we give Mr. Ayers a ten rocket salute as another legend of comicdom has passed. I enjoyed his work, and his work ethic. You will never be forgotten Dick Ayers, you were a true legend and a master.

Richard "Dick" Ayers (April 28, 1924 – May 4, 2014) was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the late 1950s and 1960s  area more specifically know as the Silver Age, he inked some of the earlier issues of The Fantastic Four. He was the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, drawing it for a 10 year run, and he co-created Magazine Enterprises' 1950s Western-horror character the Ghost Rider, a version of which he would draw for Marvel in the 1960s.

Ayers was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2007.

Jake Estrada

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