[4] Following his parents into show business, he performed as a youth in a song-and-dance act with his sister and younger brother, starting around 1927.
[3] In 1940, he was drafted and served in the Army Air Corps as an aircraft radio operator at Scott Field, Illinois.
After washing out as a pilot, Brown, a commissioned officer, trained in Hondo, Texas, as a bombardier and a navigator, serving on a B-29 bomber in the Pacific theater of World War II.
[5] He began working exclusively for Atlas sometime in 1954, with the supernatural story "The Time Is Now" in Mystery Tales #25 (Jan. 1955), signed W. R. Brown, the first of many he would draw in genres including Westerns and jungle adventures.
[5] With plotter Gardner Fox and scripter Edmond Hamilton, Brown co-created the feature "Space Ranger" in Showcase #15 (Aug.
[7][8][9] He would continue drawing that science fiction adventure after it became a feature in Tales of the Unexpected and Mystery in Space, through issue #103 (July 1965) of the latter.
[10] Brown drew stories as well for DC's The Brave and the Bold, House of Secrets, Superboy, and World's Finest Comics.
[12] Brown first drew for the modern Marvel Comics as co-penciler of the feature "The Beast" in Amazing Adventures vol.
New adversaries for the title character introduced during his tenure include the Silver Samurai in issue #111 (July 1974)[15] and Bullseye in #131 (March 1976).
They'd say, "This is what we want now," but Brown couldn't grasp just what it was he was supposed to learn from the examples, which often struck him as displaying weak anatomy, poor perspective and other fundamental errors.
Sometime after returning from World War II in September 1945, Brown and Dot married and had three daughters, Marilyn Kay, Constance and Virginia Lou.