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Allen Bellman was
born in Manhattan and studied at the High School of Industrial Arts.
He eventually became a staff artist at Timely during the Golden
Age of comics. While still a teenager, he did the backgrounds for
Syd Shores' Captain America in 1942, and eventually worked on titles
such as: The Patriot, The Destroyer, The Human Torch, Jap Buster
Johnson and Jet Dixon of the Space Squadron, All Winners Comics,
Marvel Mystery, Sub Mariner Comics, Young Allies and so much more.
His
self-created back-up crime feature Let's Play Detective. He also
contributed to pre-Code horror, crime, war and western tales for
Atlas. He worked in the comics field until the early 1950s.
After
the publishing business Allen became a successful businessman, and
after 18 years he moved down here to South Florida where he joined
the art department of a major daily newspaper, The South Florida
Sun-Sentinel. After that he went into photography. He won many nationwide
photography contests, winning out more than 20,000 entries. Photography
is the way he now creates. Hundreds of his photos have appeared
in hardcover books, have been on exhibit in museums in Florida and
received great reviews in numerous newspapers. He still attends
comic books shows, and is still available for commissions. In one
of his most recent interviews in the Miami Herald, he was described
as an artist who now paints with his camera.
Please contact Allen at allen@allenbellman.com or click here to read is open letter to his fans. |
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