Paul Reinman

Paul J. Reinman was an American comic book artist best known as one of Jack Kirby's frequent inkers during the period comics fans and historians call the Silver Age of Comic Books. This included the first issues of The Incredible Hulk and The X-Men. Paul Reinman (1910-1988) perhaps best known as a frequent inker of Jack Kirby's Silver Age work, Reinman immigrated to the U.S. from Worms, Germany in 1934 and broke into the comics field in 1940. He did work for MLJ and Timely, including Timely's All Winners Comics and Human Torch Comics. Moving to DC-predecessor All-American Publications, he drew stories featuring the original Green Lantern and Wonder Woman and drew the Atom from 1947 to 1949. Reinman drew the Tarzan daily newspaper strip from 1949 to 1950 and the strip Merry Chase, also in 1950. Freelancing for Atlas, Reinman contributed to all genres, including religious-themed comics such as Bible Tales for Young Folk, but his most notable work came in Atlas war comics of 1952-1953. "Atrocity Story" in Battlefeld #2 (1952) showed how Reinman's strong, unsparing imagery could carry a story, as panel after panel of war atrocities play out in front of the reader. As Atlas became Marvel, his inking proved to be a good fit with Kirby's muscular dynamism (The Incredible Hulk, The Avengs, and X-Men). In the 1970s, he drew Ka-zar #1 and did coloring work for Marvel, as well as contributing art to Tower Comics and Gold Key.