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Gene Bilbrew also signed thousands of pieces of art as “Eneg” (Gene spelled backwards). His art was first published in the 1940’s. Gene Bilbrew made his debut in the Los Angeles Sentinel with the series ‘The Bronze Bomber’, together with Bill Alexander. After this, he made the series ‘Hercules’ in Health Magazine. He then became an assistant to Will Eisner on ‘The Spirit’.
Gene Bilbrew (1923-1971?) produced a tremendous quantity of work for Irving Klaw and later publishers, such as Leonard Burtman. Bilbrew, an African-American, met Eric Stanton while both were students at The School of Visual Arts in NYC. Here Bilbrew studied under Burne Hogarth, creator of the famous Tarzan comic strip. It was via Stanton that Bilbrew met and came to work for Klaw in 1951.
