Davis, Phil

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Born: Mar 04, 1906 AD
Died: 1964 AD, at 57 years of age.

Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Cartoonists


1906 - born on the 4th of March in St. Louis, Missouri.

         - Davis became interested in drawing when he was six years old. "I had a mania for parades," he recalled. "I drew every parade I could see.

         - His first professional artwork was for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and he left the newspaper to do magazine illustrations and advertising art before eventually landing at King Features Syndicate.

1934 - He met Lee Falk, the two collaborated on Mandrake the Magician.

         - One of Davis' assistants was Ray Moore, who later became the first artist on Falk's other comic strip, The Phantom.

1964 - Davis died.
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