death_place death_date subcat nationality art name birth_date article_title birth_name
oradell , new jersey 08 august 1989 american american y george papp -- > 20 january 1916 george papp
 george edward papp
george papp

george edward papp -lrb- january 20 , 1916 - august 8 , 1989 -rrb- was an american comic book artist .
best known as one of the principal artists on the long-running superboy feature for dc comics , papp also co-created the green arrow character with mort weisinger and co-created congorilla along with writer whitney ellsworth .
papp began his comic book career with the occasional feature and cartoon in early issues of the superman family of comics .
`` pep morgan '' , `` congo bill '' -lrb- later congorilla -rrb- and `` clip carson '' were the first features he worked on for `` action comics '' .
`` the green arrow '' feature made its first appearance in the `` more fun comics '' # 73 -lrb- november 1941 -rrb- .
papp joined the american army during world war ii .
he drew the `` superboy '' feature from 1958 -- 1967 , working on a variety of memorable characters , including early appearances of the legion of super-heroes .
papp was fired by dc in 1968 along with many other prominent dc writers and artists who had made demands for health and retirement benefits .
