This jovial, practical-joking, fun-loving master of the female figure (artistically, that is!) was born in Brooklyn on May 29th, 1920. Jack’s first attempts at art were chalked on the sidewalks of New York when he was a child of five. Then his mother bought him some paper because she was tired of patching the knees in his knickers! Jack’s first exhibited work was a piece of sculpture--a heroic statue of Governor P.H. Bell of Texas--for the Texas Centennial. He was assistant to a famous sculptor on this project, which still stands today in a park built around it.

In order for Jack to pay his tuition to the Art Students League and the Grand Central Art School, where he studied in both day and evening classes, he did sculpture and decorating of fashion mannequins for prominent department stores, as well as window displays and theatrical scenery painting. Finally Jack struck out as a freelancer working for different publishers and agents doing pulp illustrations for detective and cowboy magazines. Inevitably he drifted into comics!

In 1942, Jack was "captured" by Uncle Sam and deposited immediately behind a drawing-board, preparing field-manual illustrations and visual training aids for the army. This lasted two years, after which he was replaced by three WACS and sent into a combat Signal Corps! Jack saw action in Fichhafen, Hollandia, and Biak in New Guinea, and in Leyte, and Manila in the Philippines! After a total of four years in the service, Jack returned to civilian life and comics. The first thing he did was marry "the girl who had waited"--a cute little chick by the name of Evelyn!

After working for various comic organizations for several years, Jack dropped in at EC and we grabbed him! Jack works exclusively for us now, appearing regularly in our science-fiction mags and Crime SuspenStories, and frequently in our three horror mags.

Jack lives with his wife and two sons--Bart and Dean--in a lovely house in Rockville Centre, Long Island. His hobbies include photography and gardening. (He’s real proud of his velvety green lawn!) Jack’s one vice is collecting pipes--can’t pass a pipe-store without picking up a new one! (Once he got caught.) Jack’s subtly clever stories are popular with you EC readers--possibly because they frequently include his ravishing Kamen girls!