Irwin Hasen, Golden Age Artist, Dies At 96

Posted on | by Rich Johnston

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Irwin Hasen, artist on Green Lantern, Justice Society, Flash, Johnny Thunder, creator of the character Wildcat with Bill Finger, and the newspaper strip Dondi, has died at the age of 96, reported by the New York Daily News.

Michael Uslan calls Hasen "DC's last surviving artist from World War II. So DC's 'Golden Age of Comics' has come to a close, 77 years after it began."

You can see a little of his legacy here. His strip Dondi about a war orphan, created with Gus Edson, ran from 1955 to 1986.

IrwinHasen6.13.09ByLuigiNovi
Photo © Luigi Novi / Wikimedia Commons.

About Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.

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