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Bill Ward
Bill Ward, who studied at the Pratt Institute, was an acclaimed “good girl” comics artist. He created numerous romance strips for among others Quality. His most famous creation is ‘Torchy’. In the early stages of his career, he has also done pencil work for such famous comic books as ‘Captain Marvel’ and ‘Bullet Man’, when he was part of Jack Binder’s shop. At Quality, he also took over ‘Blackhawk’ from Reed Crandall.
After Dr. Wetham’s ‘Seduction of the Innocent’, Ward moved from comics to his best known works, his countless pin-up cartoons. His best work appeared from 1957 to 1963 in the Humorama line of digest magazines. Throughout the years, Ward’s work became more and more erotic and even pornographic.
John Willie
John Alexander Scott Coutts was born of British parents in Singapore. He studied in England, then moved to Australia. From there, he sent his designs to the US. Most of his work was published (under the pseudonym John Willie) between 1946 and 1959 in Bizarre magazine, which Willie also edited. His most famous stories were ‘The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline’, ‘Pauline’s Peril’ and ‘Hairbreadth Harry’. John Willie was a master of the bondage genre, and he created numerous works for private orders, which unfortunately have never been published. He retired to Guernsey, where he died in 1962.
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