Adolphe Leslie de Griponne Barreaux, Jr. (Charleston, January 9, 1899New York City, October 23, 1985http://www.pulpartists.com/Barreaux-P.html Adolphe Barreaux claimed the name Adolphe Leslie de Griponne Barreaux, Jr. Pulp Artists – in October 2016), professionally credited as Adolphe Barreaux, was an African-AmericanQuattro, Ken. "Adolphus Barreaux Gripon", Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books. IDW; Yoe Books. 2020. . P 13-20. writer, artist and publisher during the height of pulp magazines in the 1930s and during the Golden Age of Comics.
A graduate of Yale School of Art,"Northport Journal To Issue Clever Comic Section," Northport Journal, June 21, 1935 Barreaux worked for the publisher Harry Donenfeld at National Allied Publications, writing and drawing for magazines such as Spicy Adventure, Spicy Detective and Spicy Mystery. He worked mainly in the detective fiction genre and sometimes under pseudonyms such as Charles Barr. He created properties such as Sally the Sleuth (a successful adult strip later continued by Keats Petree) and The Enchanted Stone of Time, and was the first artist to draw Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective.Spicy Tales Collection, Edited by Tom Mason, Malibu Graphics, Inc., 1989. At his personal studio, Majestic Studios, his team supplied the art for Olga Mesmer,Daniels, Les (2000). Wonder Woman: The Complete History. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. p. 18. ISBN 978-0811829137. a strip credited as an early precursor to modern superheroes.Coogan, Peter, "Comics Predecessors," The Superhero Reader, ed. Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, and Kent Worcester (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013), 13. In 1935, Barreaux created a one-page story for the first title ever published by DC Comics, New Fun Comics #1, a contribution now noted by the company as a milestone for Black comics creators.
During the Golden Age of Comics he created or contributed to titles such as The Black Spider, The Raven, The Magic Crystal of History, Tad Among the Pirates, Enchanted Stone, Flip Falcon, Patty O'Day, The Blazing Scarab, and The Dragon's Teeth. After his comics career he became an editor and illustrator for Fawcett Publications and others.
Bibliography
Goulart, Ron. "Comic Book Culture": An Illustrated History. CollectorsPress, 2000. ISBN 1-888054-38-7. p. 26
External links
Adolphe Barreaux at the Grand Comics Database
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