Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger (/ˈaɪɡər/; August 22, 1903 – September 5, 1990)[2] was an American cartoonist and art-studio entrepreneur.

[1] The youngest of four children of a peddler who had settled in what was then the pre-statehood Indian Territory, Iger contracted polio as a child and was cared for by his mother.

[9] He entered the fledgling comic-book field 10 years later, contributing such one-page humor strips as "Bobby" (whose eponymous character was based on nephew Arthur),[1] "Peewee" and "Happy Daze" to Famous Funnies, one of those seminal American comic books that reprinted black-and-white newspaper strips in color.

Turning a profit of $1.50 a page, Eisner claimed that he "got very rich before I was 22",[12] later detailing that in Depression-era 1939 alone, he and Iger "had split $25,000 between us",[13] a considerable amount for the time.

Iger also started the small Phoenix Features newspaper syndicate, which in the early 1950s distributed a comic strip of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.