Sol Brodsky

SOL BRODSKY 22 April 1923 – 04 June 1984

Avengers Cover Inks: #2, 16

Sol Brodsky began his on / off association with the Marvel in 1942 and at one point in the 1950s the Atlas office staff consisted of only Brodsky and Stan Lee. Brodsky left to form a short lived comic company with Mike Esposito. He began freelancing again for Marvel in the early 60s and like many other artists of the day often inked Jack Kirby’s pencils. By 1964 Brodsky was Production Manager at Marvel however he once again tried his hand outside of Marvel co-founding Skywald Productions. Brodsky returned to Marvel once more and in the late 1970s he had become Vice President, Operations and as VP Special Projects he oversaw Marvel UK, Marvel Books, and other activities with Lee often describing Brodsky as “…my right hand man for years”.

 

Brodsky’s work was often not credited to him or incorrectly credited. For example Brodsky’s inking credits on the landmark Fantastic Four issues 3 and 4 were only publicly recorded many years later. Brodsky created many Marvel logos including perhaps the most recognisable Amazing Spider-man logo which was co-created with Marvel letterer Artie Simek. Brodsky, together with Steve Ditko came to the rescue by inking various backgrounds and secondary characters in Daredevil #1 when Bill Everett was late in delivering the pages. They also produced a cover from Jack Kirby’s sketches. Conversely some work credited to Brodsky is not his. Archie Comics were not happy to have their artists working on similar titles while also working at Archie so while Stan Goldberg was working for Archie, he often used Brodsky’s name at Marvel for his Millie The Model.