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Marvin Stein
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Creator Profile
- Creator Name
- Marvin Stein
- Date of Birth
- February 11, 1925
- Date of Passing
- February 11, 2010
- Biography
- Obituary published February 17, 2010: Marvin Stein, comic book illustrator, dies at 85. For a man who spent his career illustrating comic books during their shoot-'em-up, pulpy heyday, Marvin Stein was a remarkably upbeat man, his family said. "He was always positive, always happy," said his daughter Audrey Leonard, 47, of Wantagh. Stein, an illustrator of the McGurk's Mob comic strip and previously from Massapequa Park, died Thursday of a heart attack at a hospital in Florida. It was his 85th birthday. Stein was born in Brooklyn and grew up in the same neighborhood as his future wife, Florence Lennowitz. When Stein was 12, his mother died, and Lennowitz's father died soon thereafter. Stein's widowed father married Lennowitz's widowed mother. The two teenagers were step-siblings but also fell in love and later married, their daughter said. Stein studied art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and taught at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He was ineligible to serve in the military because he had poor eyesight. Art was his passion, and he worked on comic books, cartoons, advertisements and illustrated books, Leonard said. "He was drawing since he was a little kid. He always studied art," she said. "He was always drawing and cartooning. He worked on animation as well." Some examples of his work can be seen in vintage Archie, Superman and Captain Valiant comic books. From about 1964 to 1969, Stein illustrated the syndicated McGurk's Mob with Bernard Wexler for Newsday. The comic strip was based on Wexler's seven children, Leonard said. Stein also worked for years illustrating children's books for a Baldwin-based publishing company, and retired after the company was sold. He and his wife moved to Boynton Beach, Fla., where they enjoyed the temperate climate and Stein practiced yoga. Florence Stein died in 2007. On Feb. 6, Stein's family gathered in Florida, Leonard said. "We had gone down to celebrate his birthday," she said. The next day, "He wasn't feeling well, so that's when we took him to the hospital." Stein took a positive attitude toward death, Leonard said. "He always looked at death as a graduation," she said. "He never looked at death as a negative thing." His remains will be cremated and spread on Zach's Bay at Jones Beach State Park - the same bay where his wife's ashes were spread, Leonard said. In addition to Leonard, Stein is survived by another daughter, Nicki Herman, of Roswell, Ga.
F-587 Yvette 4pg art
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F-680 Something About a Soldier! 6pg art
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H-963 The Missing Man! 3pg art
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L-424 Four Empty Chairs! 4pg art
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L-637 The Fish Men! 4pg art
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L-552 Your Life for Mine! 4pg art
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L-647 The Door That Wouldn't Open! 4pg art
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L-696 The Man Who Was Replaced 4pg art
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L-858 Outlaws' Ambush! 5pg art
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L-706 The Watcher! 4pg art
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L-919 I Died Too Soon 4pg art
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L-718 The Man Who Stole The Sun! 4pg art
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L-879 Captured! 4pg art
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M-290 Ambush! 4pg art
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M-115 The Night I Lost My Body! 4pg art
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M-162 Stay Off the Streets! 5pg art
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M-191 The Night Rider 4pg art
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M-472 Machine-Gun Nest! 4pg art
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M-139 The Phony! 4pg art
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M-570 The End of a Deputy! 5pg art
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M-868 The Last Command! 5pg art
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M-890 Bandit 5pg art
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O-272 The Revenge of Will Larrame 5pg art
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O-349 The Golden Palomino! 4pg art
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O-5 Come And Get Us 5pg art
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T-122 I Was the Miracle Man 5pg art
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V-377 The Thing in the Black Box! 7pg art
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V-378 Midnight in the Wax Museum! 6pg art
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Creator Checklist
Marvin Stein
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Journey Into Mystery 23
March 1955
pencils and inks unsigned
F-587 | 4pg
Caught 1
August 1956
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J-875 | 4pg
Mystic 51
September 1956
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K-15 | 4pg
Navy Action (2nd - Jan 57) 17
June 1957
pencils and inks unsigned
L-879 | 4pg
Western Trails 2
July 1957
pencils and inks unsigned
M-335 | 4pg
Quick-Trigger Western 19
September 1957
pencils and inks unsigned
M-570 | 5pg
Gunsmoke Western 44
January 1958
pencils and inks unsigned
O-272 | 5pg
Strange Worlds 2
February 1959
inks unsigned
T-122 | 5pg
Journey Into Mystery 74
November 1961
inks guess
V-377 | 7pg
Journey Into Mystery 74
November 1961
inks guess
V-378 | 6pg