holy shit! Matt Baker was a brother?

[three-fifths]

born: clarence matthew baker

fuckin' aye.

no wonder this type of shit was kept on the low.

i'm surprised he was ever allowed to sketch white women.

 

[TheProdigal]

The handsome-looking gentleman at the left is Clarence Matthew Baker, a comic book artist who died in 1959. He attended the Cooper Union School of Engineering, Art, and Design in New York and, in 1944, got himself a job as a background artist with the S.M. Iger Studio. His first published work was in Jumbo Comics #69.

Baker became well-known for his "good girl" art that was popular at the time. In fact, it was his incredible ability which allowed him to break the color barriers that were in place at the time. Baker became the regular artist on "Sky Girl", "Tiger Girl" and "Camilla, Queen of the Jungle Empire." In 1947, Iger asked Baker to redesign Phantom Lady and his more scantily clad version of the character, based off actress Linda Darnell, caught the attention of Fredric Wertham. The cover of Phantom Lady #17 was even highlighted in Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent.

Baker and one of the writers he worked with on Phantom Lady, Ruth Roche, began a newspaper strip in 1952 called Flamingo. That ran two years and was distributed by Iger’s Phoenix Features.

http://kleefeldoncomics.blogspot.com/2011/02/clarence-matthew-baker.html

 

[Megazell]

There is another thread on here about the same exact thing.

 

[Man_Of_STeeL]

good to know...