Fred Ray

Fred Ray was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,[3] to a Jewish family,[4][5] and began his career while still in high school, influenced by the works of such artists as Howard Pyle, W. H. D. Koerner, Frederick Gruger, and N.C.

He penciled and inked his first feature with the six-page Radio Squad story "Murder in the Street", by writer Jerry Siegel, in More Fun Comics #62 (Dec. 1940).

[7] His redesign of the "S" symbol on Superman's costume became one of the defining features of the character's look during the 1930s to 1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books.

As well, for a time in 1946, he briefly drew the Sunday edition of the Batman newspaper comic strip distributed by the McClure Syndicate.

Ray's last known comics work was the eight-page anthological story "The Lost Battle", written by Bob Haney, in Tomahawk #139 (April 1972).