Arthur Richard Mather (22 November 1925 – 4 June 2017) was an Australian cartoonist, illustrator, and novelist.
He briefly attended art classes at the Melbourne Technical College night school but was largely self taught.
[3][4] In 1947 he was approached by Jack Bellew, who had recently founded Atlas Publications, to create a comic book series for the fledgling company.
Like Yaroslav Horak and Andrea Bresciani, Mather became a regular artist for Atlas, later working on the company's Sergeant Pat of the Radio Patrol and Flynn of the FBI.
Mainly set in America, they were predominantly thrillers and crime novels with elements of science fiction, particularly The Pawn, The Mind Breaker (1980), and The Duplicate (1985).