Christopher Rule

After driving an ambulance in France during World War I,[2] Christopher Rule in the 1920s worked in comic strips[3] and fashion illustration.

[5] In 1943, Rule was a comic-book inker with the Jack Binder Studio, and also that year inked Fawcett Comics stories featuring the superheroes Mary Marvel and Mr.

He expanded into other forms, including heroic adventure with the mythologically based superheroine Venus, inking Werner Roth on a story in Venus #10 (July 1950); and then into horror, inking penciler Sekowsky's story "Hands of Murder" in Adventures into Terror #4 (June 1951), from Marvel's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics.

[10] Artist Gene Colan, a Marvel mainstay from 1946 on, described Rule as "kind of like a Santa Claus — a roly-poly guy who was very funny".

[13] Atlas Comic colleague Stan Goldberg recalled that Rule's first wife died after having scalded herself.

By this marriage Rule had a stepson, Oliver Hunt Bartine Jr.[14][15] In a rare formal credit in a comic of that period, Rule is listed as "art associate" in the Atlas Comics title Girls' Life #4 (July 1954), under "editorial and art director" Stan Lee.

[9] Rule's last known confirmed credit is inking Kirby on the five-page story "What Was the Strange Power of Simon Drudd?"