Mac Raboy

Emanuel Raboy was born April 9, 1914 in New York City. He graduated from De Witt Clinton High School, which produced a large number of the artists of comics' 'Golden Age', during the great depression of the 1930's. Raboy was already an accomplished artist, and he immediately landed a job with the Works Progress Administration, a government-sponsored employment program which hired artists to decorate public places.

Raboy's comix career began in 1940 in the Harry "A" Chesler studio, a 'shop' that produced comix material on contract for other publishers. He worked on a variety of assignments for Fawcett Publications, publishers of "Captain Marvel", until he was hired as a permanent staff artist the following year.

Raboy is best known for his work on "Captain Marvel, Jr" which debuted in September of 1941, written by Otto Binder. Raboy was a much-admired artist, but not a fast worker and he required a number of assistants to complete his assignments on time. He was known to be extremely sensitive to criticism and left Fawcett in 1944 to join Spark Publications, where he drew the "Green Lama" until 1946. In the Spring of 1948 he signed on with King features to illustrate the "Flash Gordon" Sunday page, drawing the strip until his death in December of 1967.