Mortimer Leav (July 9, 1916 – September 21, 2005)[1][2] was an American artist best known as co-creator of the influential comic-book character the Heap, and for his advertising art, which included some of the earliest TV commercial storyboards – among them, for Procter & Gamble's venerable Charmin bathroom-tissue character, the grocer Mr. Whipple.
Mort Leav began his professional career in 1936 with New York City's Editors Press Service, supplying illustrations for articles syndicated to South American newspapers.
[3] Leav and writer Harry Stein co-created the World War II aviator character Skywolf in Hillman Periodicals' Air Fighters Comics No.
[5] He drew the bulk of that company's comic-book covers and lead stories, including for the crime title Wanted Comics.
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