[2] He worked with the character for around forty years, although he did not get any official credit for it until penciller Sy Barry retired and Keith Williams took over as the new inker.
During World War II Olesen served as a B-24 pilot in the Burma campaign.
[1] Olesen retired in 2005, leaving Paul Ryan to take over both the pencilling and inking jobs on The Phantom.
Olesen enjoyed a quiet life with his wife Rigmor, far away from the stressing deadlines he constantly had to face as a cartoonist.
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