Marvin Stein

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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.

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	Appearance Type	Appearance Information	Issue	Cover Date
Larger Image	story	F-587 Yvette 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Journey Into Mystery 23	March 1955
	story	F-680 Something About a Soldier! 6pg art pencils attributed	Secret Story Romances 12	April 1955
	story	H-963 The Missing Man! 3pg art pencils guess	Journey Into Mystery 34	May 1956
Larger Image	story	J-875 The Man In The Tattered Suit! 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Caught 1	August 1956
Larger Image	story	K-15 No One Will Ever Know! 4pg art pencils and inks signed	Mystic 51	September 1956
	story	K-178 What Lurks In The Fog? 4pg art pencils attributed	Spellbound 30	October 1956
	story	K-178 What Lurks In The Fog? 4pg art inks unsigned	Spellbound 30	October 1956
	story	L-424 Four Empty Chairs! 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Mystery Tales 51	March 1957
	story	L-696 The Man Who Was Replaced 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Marvel Tales 157	April 1957
	story	L-647 The Door That Wouldn't Open! 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Strange Tales 57	April 1957
	story	L-637 The Fish Men! 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Mystery Tales 52	April 1957
	story	L-552 Your Life for Mine! 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Journey Into Unknown Worlds 56	April 1957
	story	L-919 I Died Too Soon 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Mystery Tales 53	May 1957
	story	L-718 The Man Who Stole The Sun! 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Journey Into Unknown Worlds 57	May 1957
	story	L-858 Outlaws' Ambush! 5pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Western Trails 1	May 1957
	story	L-706 The Watcher! 4pg art pencils attributed	Adventure Into Mystery 7	May 1957
Larger Image	story	L-879 Captured! 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Navy Action (2nd - Jan 57) 17	June 1957
	story	M-290 Ambush! 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Western Gunfighters 26	June 1957
	story	M-191 The Night Rider 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Wild Western 56	July 1957
	story	M-115 The Night I Lost My Body! 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	World Of Mystery 7	July 1957
	story	M-162 Stay Off the Streets! 5pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Two-Gun Western 11	July 1957
	story	M-335 Ex-Sheriff! 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Western Trails 2	July 1957
	story	M-139 The Phony! 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Journey Into Mystery 48	August 1957
	story	M-472 Machine-Gun Nest! 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Marines at War 7	August 1957
	story	M-431 Duel in Dorago! 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Wyatt Earp 13	August 1957
	story	M-868 The Last Command! 5pg art pencils attributed	Battleground 20	September 1957
Larger Image	story	M-570 The End of a Deputy! 5pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Quick-Trigger Western 19	September 1957
	story	M-890 Bandit 5pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Gunsmoke Western 43	November 1957
Larger Image	story	O-272 The Revenge of Will Larrame 5pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Gunsmoke Western 44	January 1958
	story	O-349 The Golden Palomino! 4pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Wyatt Earp 15	February 1958
	story	O-5 Come And Get Us 5pg art pencils and inks unsigned	Marines in Battle 22	March 1958
	story	O-236 The Silent Stalker! 5pg art pencils attributed	Navy Combat 17	April 1958
	story	O-236 The Silent Stalker! 5pg art inks unsigned	Navy Combat 17	April 1958
	story	O-47 The Man Who Beat the Hun! 5pg art pencils attributed	Battle 60	October 1958
Larger Image	story	T-122 I Was the Miracle Man 5pg art inks unsigned	Strange Worlds 2	February 1959
	story	M-905 The Trapped Patrol! 5pg art pencils attributed	Battle 65	August 1959
Larger Image	story	V-377 The Thing in the Black Box! 7pg art inks guess	Journey Into Mystery 74	November 1961
Larger Image	story	V-378 Midnight in the Wax Museum! 6pg art inks guess	Journey Into Mystery 74	November 1961