Alex Kotzky was a very talented comics artist who started out assisting on strips at National Comics while still in art school. Later he did backgrounds and back-ups for Will Eisner on THE SPIRIT and migrated from there to Quality comics where he worked on later episodes of PLASTIC MAN and BLACKHAWK. Add to these credits a long career in newspaper advertising comic strips, ghosting for others, doing one-off stories for smaller companies like this Ziff-Davis horror story from a 1951 WEIRD ADVENTURES and STILL his greatest fame was ahead of him! In 1961, he was the initial artist on the still-running soap strip, APARTMENT 3-G, a gig he held until his death 35 years later!
I've never heard of him before, and this is nice. think I'm gonna have to look into him. not literally, of course. because that would be wrong.
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