Dick Ayers (b. 1924)

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Name:

Dick Ayers Type: Common Alternative Name

Other Names:

1. D. A. Type: Pen Name
   
2. Arby Airz Type: Pen Name
   
3. R. Ayers Type: Common Alternative Name
   Given name: R. Family name: Ayers
4. Richard Bache Ayers Type: Name at Birth
   Given name: Richard Bache Family name: Ayers
5. Joe Shuster Type: Ghost Name
   

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Schools:

1. Art Career School [NYC] ? to ?

2. School of Visual Arts [NYC] ? to ?

3. Cartoonists and Illustrators School 1947 to 1948

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Signatures:

1. A [generic]
2. A+A [generic]
3. Ayers [generic]
4. Ayers (box)
5. D.A.
6. Dick Ayers
7. Dick Ayers
8. Dick Ayers [generic]
9. Dick AYERS (circle) [generic]
10. Dick Ayers [circle]
11. R B AYERS [generic]
12. R. Ayers [generic]
13. RBA [generic]
14. Rye [generic]

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Awards:

1. 1985: National Cartoonist Society Awards (NCS Awards) - Comic Book Division
2. 1997: Inkpot Award - [no name]
3. 2007: Eisner Award - Hall of Fame - Voter's Choices
4. 2013: Inkwell Awards - The Sinnott Hall of Fame Award

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Awards for Issues:

1. 1963: Alley Awards - Favorite Annual
   Fantastic Four Annual (1963 series) #1

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Awards for Stories:

1. 1963: Alley Awards - Favorite Short Story
   The Human Torch Meets... "Captain America" (Human Torch) comic story, 18p

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Art Influences:

Dick Ayers (b. 1924) stated influences by:

1. Burne Hogarth
2. Julie Howard Mahl
3. Sol Korby
4. Milton Caniff (b. 1907)

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Memberships:

1. National Cartoonists Society Type: member

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Relations:

1. Parent of - Dick Ayers Jr.
2. Ghosted for - Joe Shuster (b. 1914)