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Matt Baker

Matt Baker

The first (known) African American Comic Book Artist.

Name:
Matt Baker
Aliases:
Birth date:
December 10th, 1921
Death date:
August 11th, 1959
Home town:
Washington D.C.
Country:
United States
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Clarence Matthew Baker worked during the Golden-Age, co-creator of The Phantom Lady at Fox Feature Syndicate, he was noted for his "Good Girl Art" and for being the artist on St. John's "It Rhymes With Lust". It`s called by many, the first graphic novel. It`s also called the precussor to the first graphic novels.

Issues

February 1957

May 1957

January 1959

March 1959

January 2003

November 2014

January 2016

December 2017

February 2018

Volumes

1951

1952

1959

2003

2012

2014

Characters