Al Bryant (b. 1917)
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Biography:
Al Bryant was an artist from the American Golden Age of comics, the 1940s. He worked for the Quality Comics Group on 'Gale Allen' in 1941 and 'Shark Brodie' in 1942. Bryant also produced for Military Comics and Feature Comics. During the Second World War, Bryant continued making comic book covers for Quality Comics while stationed in South Dakota during 1944. After working in comic books, Al Bryant worked as a technical illustrator for General Electric during the late 1950s. From the 1960s to the early 1970s, Bryant was a civil servant at the Naval Propellant Plant (after 1966 known as the Naval Ordnance Station [NOS]) at Indian Head, Maryland.
From 1976 to his retirement in January 1990, Al Bryant worked as a draftsman at the Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Georgia.
Notes:
Al Bryant retired from comic book work sometime during 1948 after a self-induced automobile crash, possibly on the Grand Central Parkway in New York. Afterwards, for about eight years from 1948 to 1955, Bryant was hospitalized, possibly for depression.
Name:
- Al Bryant
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Type: Common Alternative Name
Given name: Al Family name: Bryant
Other Names:
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Allison Brant
Type: Pen Name
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Al S. Bryant
Type: Common Alternative Name
Given name: Al S. Family name: Bryant -
Albert Samuel Bryant
Type: Name at Birth
Given name: Albert Samuel Family name: Bryant
Signatures:
- A. S. Bryant [generic]
- Al Bryant [generic]
- AL BRYANT
- Al. Bryant [generic]
- Alexander [generic]
- Allison Brant [generic]
- Jerry Maxwell [generic]
- Lincoln Ross [generic]
- Noel Fowler [generic]
- Stanley Charbot [generic]
- Stanley Charlot [generic]
Relations:
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Employee of
- Iger Shop
Notes: Byrant did pencil and ink work for the shop circa 1941 to circa 1942.
Schools:
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Pratt Institute [Brooklyn] ? to ?
