Dennis Neville
| Dennis Neville | |
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| Born | Dennis Neville |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Penciller |
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Notable works
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Hawkman Hawkgirl Hath-Set |
Dennis Neville was an American comic book artist who co-created the original Hawkman, his lover Hawkgirl and nemesis Hath-Set for DC Comics.
Career
Dennis Neville was an American comic book artist who worked for DC Comics in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of Joe Shuster's early assistants on the Superman daily comic strip at the time and the detective comic series on Slam Bradley too.
Neville was also the artist on the original versions of Hawkman, Hawkgirl and Hath-Set characters for DC Comics when they all first appeared in Flash Comics #1 in 1940 during 'Golden Age'.
Hawkman's first three adventures were drawn by Dennis Neville in his first comic appearance's; whose look and appearance were inspired and modeled after the Hawkmen characters from the Flash Gordon comic strip by Alex Raymond.
Dennis Neville left when he was replaced after 3-4 issues of the comic run by Sheldon Moldoff and then later by Joe Kubert, who slightly redesigned his mask in Flash Comics # 85 (Jul 1947) and then, one year later, replaced the winged-hawk-like mask by a much simpler yellow cowl in Flash Comics #98 (Aug 1948).
Afterwards, he returned to the 'Superman' comic. Although not one of the big names in early comics, Dennis Neville did work on some important comic features from the 'Golden Age' of American Comic Books.
