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Richard Bache Ayers[2] (/ ɛərz /; April 28, 1924 – May 4, 2014) was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby 's inkers during the late-1950s and 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comics, including on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics ' The Fantastic Four.
Richard Bache “Dick” Ayers died May 4, 2014, at his home in White Plains, just six days after passing the nine-decade milestone, reportedly from Parkinson’s disease.
DICK AYERS liked to laugh at the idea of a Marvel “Bullpen” — that would-be physical collective of cartoonists that, readers were led to imagine, happily churned out all those inspired pages of...
On September 29, 2012, Richard “Dick” Ayers (1924–2014), who is best known for co-creating Ghost Rider (the cowboy character), inking Jack Kirby’s pencils, and his long association with the Sgt. Fury character, spoke to Shaun Clancy. (For a more in-depth overview of Ayers’ life and career, see Art Lortie’s obituary.)
Comic readers treasure the classic stories Dick Ayers drew for Marvel Comics in the 1960s, but that’s just one part of a very long career that began shortly after World War II. He also worked for DC, Magazine Enterprises, Harvey, Charlton, and a number of other publishers.
After the Code came in and straight horror died off, Dick became a mainstay of Stan Lee’s pre-Marvel Atlas comics, eventually drawing everything from the brief Human Torch revival to a zillion more cowboy and war stories and the Godzilla-inspired monster tales that followed at the end of the decade.
Richard Ayers. (28 April 1924 - 4 May 2014, USA) Scalphunter (1979) Richard "Dick" Ayers was born in Ossining, New York, in 1924. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, where he published his first comic strip 'Radio Ray' in the Army newspaper Radio Post in 1942.
