Ezra Jackson

Ezra Jackson

To be confirmed against the Who's Who entry. Not to be confused with children's book illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. Not to be confused with Myron Fass who supposedly used Ezra Jackson as a pen name, though it is likely the work was actually Jackson's. Jackson used the pen name of Whit I. Jackson and Ezra Whiteman in conjunction with Maurice Whitman. Ezra Jackson's work has been confused with Ezra Jack Keats's work by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Bails has Jackson working for Beck-Costanza Studio in 1943, but according to Jackson's biography in Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books (Yoe Books; IDW Publishing, 2020) by Ken Quattro, Jackson's first comic book work was not until late 1944 after he graduated from the High School of Industrial Art in New York City in June 1944. Ezra Jack Keats has been confirmed to have worked for the Beck-Costanza Studio in 1942 and 1943 before joining the U.S. Army in April 1943. Also, the listing of Jackson using the pen name of Jack Keats by Bails is almost certainly caused by a similar confusion. Bails' lists Jackson working for the Iger Studio during the 1940s, but Ezra Jack Keats's 1940 draft registration card confirms Keats worked for Iger's studio in 1940 and this credit in the Who's Who is likely a similar confusion of names by Bails. The following credits in the Who's Who is likely Keats as well and should be disregarded here for Jackson: Pen name: -Jack Keats Comics Studio (Shop): -Beck-Constanza Studio (pen/ink/) 1943 -Iger Studio (pen/ink/) 1940s Fawcett Comics: -Bulletman (pen/ink/) 1943 Member: -P.E.N.; Author's Guild; Society of Illustrators Other career notes: -Teacher: School of Visual Arts -Teacher: Workshop School [New York City] Fine Arts: -Muralist for WPA during Depression Honors: -Boston Globe Horn Book Award 1970 -Brooklyn Art Books for Children Citation 1973 -Caldecott Medal 1970

Issues Worked On

Has Cover Issue
0 Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1965 Series), #57 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Gespenster Geschichten (1974 Series), #89 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Gespenster Geschichten (1974 Series), #109 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Gespenster Geschichten (1974 Series), #121 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Gespenster Geschichten (1974 Series), #124 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Grimm's Ghost Stories (1972 Series), #26 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1965 Series), #56 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Suspense Comics (1943 Series), #10 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Night of Terror (1980 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Terror Tales (1969 Series), #4 (Click link to Load Image)
0 The Black Legend (1984 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Horror Tales (1969 Series), #2 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Avenging Spirit (1984 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Fiends and Things (1982 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Horror Tales (1969 Series), #1 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Curse of No Return (1983 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Witches Tales (1969 Series), #3 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Horror Tales (1969 Series), #5 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Horror Tales (1969 Series), #1 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Macabre Destiny (1984 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Witches Tales (1969 Series), #5 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Witches Tales (1969 Series), #6 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Witches Tales (1969 Series), #4 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Witches Tales (1969 Series), #3 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Shrouds of Mystery (1979 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Spooks of Terror (1982 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Weird Ghostly Tales (1984 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Weird (1966 Series), #6 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tales from the Tomb (1969 Series), #5 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Reign of Terror (1980 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tales of Voodoo (1968 Series), #3 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tortured Mind (1982 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Orgy of Destruction (1983 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 The Spirits of Misfortune (1983 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Temple of the Dead (1983 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Grip of Death (1983 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Screaming Terror (1983 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Thriller Tales (1984 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Weird Worlds (1970 Series), #2 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Weird Worlds (1970 Series), #3 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Weird Worlds (1970 Series), #4 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Doom Zone (1983 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Beware! (1983 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Charons of Hell (1983 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Crypt of Creatures (1976 Series), #5 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Deeds of the Diabolical (1980 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Devil's Doom (1977 Series), #2 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Edge of Fear (1984 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Spells of Blackness (1982 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 The Empty Tombs (1985 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tales of Horror (1975 Series), #8 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Mad Fear (1983 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Pit of Evil (1975 Series), #10 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Pit of Evil (1975 Series), #14 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Shuddering Fear (1978 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Monstrosities (1982 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Spirits from the Unknown (1978 Series), #1 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Hell Pit (1984 Series), #0 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Voodoo (1975 Series), #2 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Wicked Witchs' Tales [sic] (1978 Series), #1 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tales of Voodoo (1968 Series), #1 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tales of Voodoo (1968 Series), #2 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tales of Voodoo (1968 Series), #4 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tales of Voodoo (1968 Series), #2 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tales of Voodoo (1968 Series), #6 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tales of Voodoo (1968 Series), #4 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tales of Voodoo (1968 Series), #3 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tales of Voodoo (1968 Series), #5 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tales of Voodoo (1968 Series), #6 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tales of Voodoo (1968 Series), #7 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Tales of Voodoo (1968 Series), #6 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Airboy Comics (1945 Series), #11 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Airboy Comics (1945 Series), #6 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Contact Comics (1944 Series), #5 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Airboy Comics (1945 Series), #2 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Suspense Comics (1943 Series), #9 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Power Comics (1945 Series), #1 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Power Comics (1945 Series), #2 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Witches Tales (1969 Series), #3 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Airboy Comics (1945 Series), #12 (Click link to Load Image)
0 Airboy Comics (1945 Series), #12 (Click link to Load Image)