Irving Samuel Kweskin who sometimes worked under the name Irv Wesley, was an American advertising and comic-book artist. He was best known for his work at Marvel Comics.
Biography
Early life and career
thumb|left|Adventures into Terror #17 (March 1953): Main image by Kweskin, one of his first works of comic-book art
Born on February 24, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, and a father who died when Kweskin was 11, Kweskin learned to draw by copying Sunday newspaper comics, particularly those of Hal Foster, on sheets of grocery wrapping paper. Per differing accounts, he either won a scholarship at 16 to the Studio School of Art, and the following summer enrolled in a course at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and said he was among the Allied troops who helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp. After his discharge, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in early 1949.
He recalled of his Atlas stint that he was: