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Jack Abel

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Jack Abel

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Jack Abel
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  • Jack Abel has credits at Marvel using the name "Gary Michaels". Gary Michaels is the first and middle name of Jack Abel's son.


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Jack Abel a.k.a. "Gary Michaels" (born July 15, 1927; died March 6, 1996) is an American comic book artist best known as an inker for leading publishers DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He was DC's primary inker on the Superman titles in the late 1960s and early '70s, and inked penciler Herb Trimpe's introduction of Wolverine in The Incredible Hulk #181.

Abel's published work stretches to 1951, when he penciled and inked horror stories for such anthology series as Fiction House's Ghost, Mr. Publications' Mister Mystery, and Atlas Comics' Journey into Mystery. He inked Westerns, science fiction, and war comics for Atlas, American Comics Group, Harvey Comics, and Prize Comics, and later in the decade became a prolific penciler for the DC war titles Our Fighting Forces, Our Army At War, Star Spangled War Stories and All-American Men of War.

After a reshuffling at DC c. 1970, Abel went to Marvel. He had already inked Gene Colan there on a long stretch of "Iron Man" stories beginning with Tales of Suspense #73 (Jan. 1966), under the pseudonym "Gary Michaels". Now, under his own name, he would embellish Colan on some issues of Daredevil and Tomb of Dracula (including the introduction of Blade, in #10); Trimpe on The Incredible Hulk; George Tuska on Iron Man; and Paul Gulacy on Master of Kung Fu, among other work.

Years later, when in his sixties, became a proofreader in the Marvel bullpen before being partially debilitated by a stroke.

Outside comic books, he inked John Celardo from 1967-1969 on the syndicated comic strip Tales of the Green Beret, written by author Robin Moore.

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Gene Colan [1]: "He did a lot of 'Iron Man' with me. He had a very slick line, which was okay on 'Iron Man', of course. Iron Man was made of iron, so you want it to look like metal. But when it came to stone and dark corners and garbage [laughs], he wasn't the man for that."

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