Larry Ivie

Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to biologist Wilton Ivie and his wife Aleen,^[1][2] he moved to New York City in the mid 1950s to attend the School of Visual Arts, and with a large personal library of comic books and correspondence via fanzines became a prominent part of New York comics fan culture.^[1] He also made amateur films of superheroes, influencing the amateur films of Donald F. Glut and appearing in two of his films.^[3]

He provided painted covers and other editorial material for early issues of Castle of Frankenstein magazine, then self-published the seven issues of his own newsstand magazine Monsters and Heroes, for which he drew comic stories of his own superhero Altron Boy, in the mid-to-late '60s; had his art published in the magazines Galaxy Science Fiction and If, co-created the comic book T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and wrote several stories for Marvel Comics and the horror magazines Creepy and Eerie.^[4]

Ivie died of lung cancer in January 2014, aged 77.^[4]

• Larry Ivie at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Larry Ivie at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Larry Ivie at IMDb

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