Claim: On October 16th, 2009, George Tuska passed away.
Evidence: George Tuska -LRB- April 26 , 1916 -- October 16 , 2009 -RRB- , who early in his career used a variety of pen names including Carl Larson , was an American comic book and newspaper comic strip artist best known for his 1940s work on various Captain Marvel titles and the crime fiction series Crime Does Not Pay , for and his 1960s work illustrating Iron Man and other Marvel Comics characters.