Carl Pfeufer
[3] He won a Hors Concours award for his life drawings,[3] and later attended the National Academy of Design,[3][5] where he was compelled to turn down a Prix de Rome scholarship due to family obligations.
[9] As comics historian and one-time Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas described, "When Bill Everett joined the army in 1942, his major successor as Sub-Mariner artist was Carl Pfeufer.
Pfeufer soon evolved Namor's musculature and vaguely triangular head to almost grotesque proportions, but basically filled Bill's shoes admirably.
Then, with inker John Jordan, Pfeufer began a four-and-a-half-year stint penciling the licensed Western character Tom Mix in Master Comics #97-122 and 124–133, the final issue (Nov. 1948 - April 1953), as well as very occasionally in other Fawcett titles.
"[11] During this time, Pfeufer also drew three syndicated comic strips: Chisolm Kid, which he also wrote (1950-1956); Alan O'Dare (1951-1954); and, for the New York Herald-Tribune, the daily and Sunday Bantam Prince (1951-1954).
He drew unspecified "adaptations" for Dell Comics, which often licensed film and television properties, from 1957 to 1959, and did illustrations for magazines including Off Beat Detective Stories, from the Holyoke, Massachusetts-based Pontiac Publishing, as well as for Outdoor Life and Reader's Digest.
[5] His next known comic-book work appears in a handful of superhero and science-fiction stories published in 1966 and 1967 by Harvey Comics, best known for such children's characters as Richie Rich and Casper the Friendly Ghost.
[9] Again with Binder, Pfeufer co-created the military superhero character Super Green Beret, which appeared in the two issues published of the namesake series (April–June 1967) from the short-lived Lightning Comics.
[5] These were Pfeufer's last new comic-book works, although an evidently inventoried, five-page standalone horror story, "The House on Brook Street", appeared in Marvel Comics' Giant-Size Chillers #2 (May 1975), with no known previous publication.
