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{{Short description|American illustrator}}
{{Infobox comics creator
| image         = Gray Morrow photo.jpg
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| birth_name    = Dwight Graydon Morrow
| birth_date    ={{Birth date|1934|3|7}}
| birth_place   = [[Fort Wayne, Indiana]]
| death_place   = [[Kunkletown, Pennsylvania]]
| nationality   = American
| area          =
| pencil        = y
| ink           = y
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| notable works = [[Tarzan (comics)|Tarzan]], [[Buck Rogers]], [[Flash Gordon]], ''The Illustrated Roger Zelazny''
| awards        = Nominated for [[Hugo Award]] in 1966, 1967, and 1968
| death_date={{Death date and age|2001|11|6|1934|3|7}}
}}
'''Dwight Graydon''' "'''Gray'''" '''Morrow'''<ref name=bails>{{cite book|author-link=Jerry Bails|last1=Bails|first1=Jerry|first2=Hames|last2=Ware|chapter-url=http://www.bailsprojects.com/%28S%28wzmaet45amy5x3u3cjtqvs45%29%29/bio.aspx?Name=MORROW%2C+GRAY|title=Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999|chapter=Morrow, Gray|access-date=March 24, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617190729/http://www.bailsprojects.com/%28S%28wzmaet45amy5x3u3cjtqvs45%29%29/bio.aspx?Name=MORROW%2C+GRAY|archive-date=June 17, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> (March 7, 1934 &ndash; November 6, 2001)<ref name=ssdi>[http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ssdi/doc/ssdi/v1:11306727954B9D48 Gray Morrow] at the [[Social Security Death Index]]. Retrieved March 24, 2012.</ref> was an [[Americans|American]] illustrator of [[comics]], magazine covers and [[paperback books]]. He is co-creator of the [[Marvel Comics]] muck-monster the [[Man-Thing]] and of [[DC Comics]] [[Old West]] vigilante [[El Diablo (comics)|El Diablo]].

==Biography==

===Early life and career===
Morrow was born March 7, 1934, in [[Fort Wayne, Indiana]],<ref name=poconoobit>{{cite news|last=Applegate|first=Aaron|title=Comic book legend and Kunkletown resident dies at 67|work=Pocono Record|date=November 14, 2001|accessdate=January 29, 2024|url=https://www.poconorecord.com/story/news/2001/11/15/comic-book-legend-kunkletown-resident/51072604007/}}</ref><ref name=lam>[http://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/morrow_g.htm Gray Morrow] at the [[Lambiek Comiclopedia]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131110205202/http://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/morrow_g.htm Archived] from the original on November 10, 2013.</ref> and he attended [[North Side High School (Fort Wayne, Indiana)|North Side High School]].<ref name=collector27p40>{{Cite journal|title=An Interview with Gray Morrow|journal=The Collector|publisher=Bill G. Wilson|location= [[Clairton, Pennsylvania]]|issue=27|date=Winter 1973|page=40}}</ref> He recalled in 1973 that, "Comic art was certainly the first artform I remember being impressed with ... [T]hose gorgeous gory newsstand spreads ..."<ref name=collector27p40 /> After serving as editor of his high-school yearbook, for which he did cartoons and illustration,<ref name=warren72>{{cite book | year=2001 | last1=Roach|first1= David A.|first2=Jon B. |last2=Cooke | title=The Warren Companion|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ofd-XudNAcC&dq=%22b-and-w+world%22+%22gray+morrow%22&pg=PA72 72]| publisher=[[TwoMorrows Publishing]]|location=Raleigh, North Carolina|isbn=978-1893905085}}</ref> and working a number of odd jobs including "soda jerk, street repairman, tie designer, exercise boy on the race track circuit, etc.," he enrolled in the [[Chicago Academy of Fine Arts]] in Chicago, Illinois, in late summer 1954, studying two nights a week for three months under Jerry Warshaw for "the total of my entire formal art training."<ref name=collector27p40 /> His first formal commission "was something like a bank ad or a tie design when I was still in my teens."<ref name=collector27p41>''The Collector'', p. 41</ref> He joined the city's Feldkamp-Malloy art studio, later being fired. Feeling encouraged by a meeting with [[comic-strip]] artist [[Allen Saunders]], Morrow submitted strip samples to various syndicates with no luck.<ref name=collector27p40 />

Undaunted, he moved to New York City in winter 1955 and by the following spring had met fellow young comics artists [[Al Williamson]], [[Angelo Torres]], and [[Wally Wood]]. He sold his first [[comic-book]] story, a [[romance comics|romance tale]], to [[Toby Press]], which went out of business before it could be published. Morrow next did two stories for another company &mdash; a [[Western comics|Western]] with original characters and an adaptation of [[pulp-fiction]] writer [[Robert E. Howard]]'s "[[The Tower of the Elephant]]", but this company, too, went defunct. He then worked for Williamson and Wood<ref name=collector27p40 /> doing backgrounds and layouts, and through Williamson began contributing to [[Atlas Comics (1950s)|Atlas Comics]], the 1950s iteration of [[Marvel Comics]],<ref name=warren73>Roach, Cooke, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ofd-XudNAcC&dq=%22inchon%22+%22walmedo%22+%22gray%22&pg=PA73 73]</ref> drawing several [[supernatural]]-[[fantasy]] stories plus at least four Westerns and one [[war comics|war story]] on titles [[cover-date]]d July 1956 to June 1957.<ref name=gcd>[http://www.comics.org/credit/name/gray%20morrow/sort/chrono/ Gray Morrow] at the [[Grand Comics Database]]</ref>

Morrow illustrated several stories for [[EC Comics]] in the 1950s, including horror, suspense and science fiction. He later did covers and stories for the company's New Trend comics and Picto-Fiction magazines.<ref name=gcd />

In late 1956, Morrow was drafted<ref name=warren73 /> into the [[U.S. Army]].<ref name=Jones217>{{cite book|last= Jones|first=William B. Jr. |title=Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, Second Edition|publisher=[[McFarland & Co.]]|year=2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=cGSAJrIxS34C&dq=%22Gray+Morrow%22+Korea&pg=PA217 217]}}</ref> Stationed at [[Incheon, South Korea|Incheon]] and [[Wolmido Island, South Korea|Wolmido Island]], South Korea, with Fox Company, he did "illustrations and paintings for the officers' club, day rooms, insignias on helmets for their parades ... you know, anything and everything. That was my official duty."<ref name=warren73 /> After being discharged in 1958, "My friend Angelo Torres took me around to a couple of his clients, one being 'Classics' [i.e., the [[Gilberton Company]], publisher of the ''[[Classics Illustrated]]'' comic-book series of literary adaptations], and I was given a script. One thing led to another and I was soon working on a regular basis.<ref name=Jones217 />

Prior to his Gilberton stint, Morrow contributed to one of the first black-and-white [[horror-comics]] magazines, the [[Joe Simon]]-edited ''Eerie Tales'' #1 (Nov. 1959) from Hastings Associates, [[penciler|penciling]] and [[inker|inking]] two four-page stories by an unknown writer, "The Stalker" and "Burn!"<ref name=gcd />

===1960s to 1970s===
In the early 1960s, Morrow anonymously<ref name=lam /> illustrated three literary adaptations for ''[[Classics Illustrated]]'': ''The Octopus'' by [[Frank Norris]] (#159, Nov. 1960); ''Master of the World'' by [[Jules Verne]] (#163, July 1961); and ''The Queen's Necklace'' by [[Alexandre Dumas]] (#165, Jan. 1962),<ref>Jones, pp. 333, 334.</ref> which he said he penciled and inked at the rate of "eight pages a day ... as fast as I've ever been able to go" since "I'd moved to California and needed those checks badly."<ref name=Jones221>Jones, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=cGSAJrIxS34C&dq=%22Gray+Morrow%22+%22eight+pages%22&pg=PA221 221].</ref> Morrow also supplied drawings for chapters in ''Classics Illustrated Special Issue'' #159A, ''Rockets, Jets and Missiles'' (Dec. 1960), and in 13 ''World Around Us'' issues ranging from ''Prehistoric Animals'' (Nov. 1959) to ''Famous Teens'' (May 1961).<ref>Jones, pp. 343, 346-348.</ref> One of those, #W28, ''Whaling'' (Dec. 1960), resulted in unexpected controversy when he accurately depicted [[African-American]] [[whaling|whalers]]:

{{blockquote|[T]he page rate [at Gilberton in general] wasn't much for the accuracy and authenticity they expected, but it was a challenge to 'do it right.' Roberta and Len Cole were demanding but genial editors. One job I do remember ... something about whaling, got me in dutch [i.e. trouble] with Roberta. My research indicated that many of the whalers were black &mdash; so that's what I drew. She had a fit and insisted they all be redrawn to 'avoid controversy.'<ref name=Jones217 />}}

In the end, the problematic chapter, "The Long Voyage", retained what one comics historian called "a respectable number of African-American whalemen."<ref name=Jones217 /> Morrow, however, recalled, "[T]hey had me make them all white. I had to change their features."<ref name=warren73 />

Concurrently, Morrow also illustrated entries in the [[Bobbs-Merrill Company|Bobbs-Merrill]] juvenile book series "Childhood of Famous Americans", continuing with that publisher after Gilberton ceased production of new titles. Morrow's art appears in ''[[Henry Clay]]: Young Kentucky Orator'' (1963), ''[[Douglas MacArthur]]: Young Protector'' and other entries.<ref name=Jones221 /> Some, including ''[[Crispus Attucks]], Black Leader of Colonial Patriots'',<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13644101 ''Crispus Attucks, Black Leader of Colonial Patriots'']. WorldCat. Retrieved March 25, 2012.</ref> ''[[Teddy Roosevelt]], Young [[Rough Riders|Rough Rider]]'',<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20260384  ''Teddy Roosevelt, Young Rough Rider'']. WorldCat. Retrieved March 25, 2012.</ref> and ''[[Abner Doubleday]]: Young Baseball Pioneer'',<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1862653 ''Abner Doubleday: Young Baseball Pioneer'' (1965)] and [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29548977 1995] editions. WorldCat. Retrieved March 25, 2012.</ref> were reprinted by successor publishers in the 1980s and 1990s.

Morrow next began a three-year association with [[Warren Publishing]]'s line of black-and-white horror-comics magazines in 1964, starting with the six-page story "Bewitched!," written by [[Larry Ivie]], in ''[[Creepy (magazine)|Creepy]]'' #1, and contributed over a dozen stories to that magazine and its sister publication ''[[Eerie (magazine)|Eerie]]'', as well as to the [[war-comics]] magazine ''[[Blazing Combat]]'', through 1967.<ref name= gcd /> He also painted four horror covers for Warren. For competitor [[Skywald Publications]], he drew the eight-page "The Skin And Bones Syndrome" for ''Psycho'' #1 (Jan. 1971), and co-created the muck-monster [[Man-Thing]], with writers [[Roy Thomas]] and [[Gerry Conway]], in [[Marvel Comics]]' first entry into the adult-oriented comics-magazine market, the black-and-white ''[[Savage Tales]]'' #1 (May 1971).<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1 = Sanderson|editor-first1 = Peter|editor-link1 = Peter Sanderson|editor-last2= Gilbert|editor-first2= Laura|chapter= 1970s|title = Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History|publisher = [[Dorling Kindersley]]|date= 2008|location= London, United Kingdom|page = 149|isbn =978-0756641238|quote= ''Savage Tales'' ... was more notable for the debut of Marvel's mindless swamp monster, the Man-Thing, in an origin story written by Gerry Conway and illustrated by Gray Morrow.}}</ref> 
[[File:Gray-Morrow.jpg|Gray Morrow by [[Michael Netzer]]|thumb]]

By 1970, Morrow was married to Betty Morrow, who wrote a story he drew, "The Journey", in the early [[independent comic]] ''[[witzend]]'' #7 (1970).<ref name=warren74>Roach, Cooke, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ofd-XudNAcC&dq=%22betty+morrow%22+%22gray%22&pg=PA74 74]</ref> That same year he returned to color comics, drawing several supernatural-fantasy stories for [[DC Comics]]' ''[[The Witching Hour (DC Comics)|Witching Hour]]'', ''[[House of Secrets (DC Comics)|House of Secrets]]'' and ''[[House of Mystery]]'', as well as a smattering of romance and superhero tales.<ref name= gcd /> He also drew Western stories, and with writer [[Robert Kanigher]] co-created the [[Old West]] vigilante [[El Diablo (comics)|El Diablo]] in ''[[All-Star Western]]'' #2 (Oct. 1970).<ref name="dc-ency">{{Citation|last= Greenberger|first= Robert|author-link= Robert Greenberger|contribution = El Diablo I & II|editor-last= Dougall|editor-first= Alastair|title= The DC Comics Encyclopedia|page= 113|publisher= [[Dorling Kindersley]]|location= London, United Kingdom|year= 2008|isbn = 978-0-7566-4119-1|oclc = 213309017}}</ref> He did a small amount of work for Marvel during this time, with the cover and a romance story for ''My Love'' #14 (Nov. 1971), a Man-Thing cover and story in ''[[Adventure into Fear]]'' #10 (Oct. 1972), two "[[Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation#In other media|Gullivar Jones, Warrior of Mars]]" stories in ''[[Creatures on the Loose]]'' #20-21 (Nov. 1972 - Jan. 1973), and virtually his only Marvel superhero story, a 10-page [[Falcon (comics)|Falcon]] feature in ''[[Captain America (comic book)|Captain America]]'' #144 (Dec. 1971).<ref name= gcd />

By 1973, Morrow had served as an uncredited [[ghost writer|ghost artist]]<ref name=collector27p41 /> or art assistant<ref name=lam /> on the syndicated comic strips ''[[Rip Kirby]]'' by [[John Prentice (cartoonist)|John Prentice]], ''[[Secret Agent X-9]]'' by [[Al Williamson]] and ''[[Big Ben Bolt]]'' by [[John Cullen Murphy]]. He took over the ''[[Buck Rogers]]'' strip in 1979 and the ''[[Tarzan (comics)|Tarzan]]'' Sunday strip from 1983 to 2001.<ref name=lam /> He recalled trying out for ''[[Prince Valiant]]'', saying he provided a sample "when [strip creator] [[Hal Foster]] decided to go into semi-retirement. It was done in August and published in October or November of '71. It was done as a sample when Foster interviewed [me] and a couple of others ([[Wally Wood]] and John Cullen Murphy) to take over."<ref name=collector27p43>''The Collector'', p. 43</ref>

Through 1974 and early 1975, he edited and frequently drew stories for [[Archie Comics]]' [[imprint (trade name)|imprint]] of non-teen-humor titles, [[Red Circle Comics]], including ''Chilling Adventures in Sorcery'', its successor ''Red Circle Sorcery'', and the single-issue ''The Super Cops'', based on two real-life [[New York City Police Department]] detectives.<ref name= gcd /> Following this, he specialized in covers and stories for such black-and-white Marvel magazines as ''Masters of Terror'', ''[[Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction]]'' and ''[[Marvel Preview]]''. Afterward, through 1976, he was [[art director]] of [[Charlton Comics]]' black-and-white magazine ''Space: 1999'', based on the [[Space: 1999|TV series of that name]].<ref name= gcd /> Active in the early independent comics of the 1970s, Morrow contributed mostly spot illustrations, covers and pinups rather than stories to titles including publisher David Jablin's ''Imagination'' #1 (1971); Mark Feldman's ''I'll Be Damned'' #4 (1971); John Carbonaro's ''Phase'' #1 (Sept. 1971); Doug Murray & Richard Garrison ''Heritage'' #1A and 1B (1972); and Gary Berman & Adam Malin's ''Infinity'' #2, 3B, 4-5 (1970?-1973).<!--question mark as per original source--><ref name=early-indie>{{cite web|url=http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Richard%20Arndt/The%20Early%20Independents.htm | first=Richard J.|last=Arndt| title=The Early Independents|date=August 20, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716140648/http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Richard%20Arndt/The%20Early%20Independents.htm | archive-date=July 16, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Gray Morrow Perry Rhodan.jpg|thumb|left|[[Perry Rhodan]] #20: ''The Thrall of Hypno'' ([[Ace Books]], 1972). Cover art by Morrow]]
In 1978, he began publishing, in ''[[Heavy Metal (magazine)|Heavy Metal]]'' magazine, a series of stories that would be collected in  2012 as chapters of the [[sword and sorcery]] [[graphic novel]] ''Orion''.<ref>{{cite book|title= ''Orion''|year= 1985|url= https://archive.org/details/orion00benb_0|url-access= registration|publisher= [[WorldCat]], [[Online Computer Library Center]]|location= Dublin, Ohio|oclc = 769472763}}</ref><ref name=orion /><ref>Per Arndt, ''Orion'' had originated with a six-page story in original publisher Wally Wood's ''witzend'' #2 (1967), with chapters two and three premiering in publisher Sal Quartuccio's ''Hot Stuf<nowiki>'</nowiki>'' #2 (Winter 1975) and #4 (1977), respectively.</ref> Likewise, his ''[[Playboy (magazine)|Playboy]]'' feature "Amora", which he both wrote and drew,<ref name=bails /> was collected as ''Heritage presents ... Amora'', from the [[Forest Park, Georgia|Forest Park]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] publisher Heritage in 1971.<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11515571 ''Heritage presents ... Amora'']. WorldCat. Retrieved March 24, 2012.</ref> He illustrated and colored each of the several [[Roger Zelazny]] stories that the author self-adapted for the 96-page graphic short-story collection ''The Illustrated Roger Zelazny'', produced by [[Byron Preiss|Byron Preiss Enterprizes]] and published by Baronet Publishing in February 1979.<ref name= gcd />
 
In addition to comics, Morrow in the 1960s and 1970s was an illustrator for many [[science-fiction]] magazines, with examples of his work gracing most of the covers of the American version of the [[Perry Rhodan]] [[paperback-book]] series.<ref name=collector27p41 /> He did regular interior artwork for ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]'' from 1964 to 1968 including the illustrations for the original Galaxy Science Fiction publication of the [[Hugo Award|Hugo]]-winning novella ''[[Soldier, Ask Not]]'' by [[Gordon R. Dickson]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}}  Additionally, he drew for [[satire|satirical-humor]] magazine ''[[National Lampoon (magazine)|National Lampoon]]''<ref name=collector27p41 />

===Later career===
In the 1980s, he wrote and drew [[Pacific Comics]]' three-issue ''Edge of Chaos'' (July 1983 - Jan. 1984), a science-fiction retelling of the story of the [[Greek gods]]. Through the decade he did sporadic but diverse work for Marvel and DC, ranging from stories of [[Lois Lane]]<ref>{{cite journal|last = Zeno|first = Eddy|title = In Search of Social Issues The Real and Fictional Heroes of DC Comics|journal= [[Back Issue!]]|issue = 57|page = 57|publisher = TwoMorrows Publishing|date = July 2012|location= Raleigh, North Carolina}}</ref> to those of [[Mark Hazzard: Merc]], as well as horror and science-fiction  stories for [[Eclipse Comics]]; [[satire|satirical humor]] for ''[[Cracked (magazine)|Cracked]]''; "The Sex Vampires from Outer Space" and other stories for the same publisher's black-and-white comics magazine ''Monsters Attack''; and ''Marvel Graphic Novel: Dreamwalker'' (1989), a 63-page [[superhero]]/[[espionage]] thriller written by actors [[Miguel Ferrer]] and [[Bill Mumy]].<ref name=gcd /> He drew the comics adaptations of the ''[[Sheena (film)|Sheena]]'' and ''[[Supergirl (1984 film)|Supergirl]]''<ref>{{cite journal|last= Wells|first= John|title= Supergirl in Bronze|journal= Back Issue!|issue= 84|page= 22|publisher= TwoMorrows Publishing|date= October 2015|location= Raleigh, North Carolina
|quote= When the ''Supergirl'' movie made its US premiere on November 21, 1984, the only comic book on the stands in support of it was a one-shot adaptation written by Joey Cavalieri and drawn by Gray Morrow.}}</ref> movies in 1984. Morrow briefly drew DC's ''[[Spectre (DC Comics character)|Spectre]]'' series in 1988.<ref>{{cite journal|last= Powers|first= Thomas|title= Ghostly Reflections: Doug Moench and the Spectre|journal= Back Issue!|issue= 106|pages=60–70 |publisher= TwoMorrows Publishing|date= August 2018|location= Raleigh, North Carolina}}</ref>

The following decade, continuing his trend of wide-ranging work, he drew the superhero feature "Powerline", by writers [[D. G. Chichester]] and Margaret Clark, in several issues of the Marvel/[[Epic Comics]] anthology ''[[Shadowline (Epic Comics)|A Shadowline Saga: Critical Mass]]''; inked [[Michael Davis Lawrence]] on writer [[Mike Grell]]'s DC Comics miniseries ''[[Shado (comics)|Shado]]: Song of the Dragon'' #1-4; contributed to DC's "[[The Big Book Of|The Big Book of ...]]" [[Trade paperback (comics)|trade paperback]] line of non-fiction vignettes on a variety of topics; drew the Historical Souvenir Co.'s 40-page, non-fiction ''Epic Battles of the Civil War #2 - Shiloh'' (1998); drew children's [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]] adventurers for [[Hamilton Comics]] and adult-oriented stories for ''[[Penthouse Comix]]''; and did work for such [[independent comics]] publishers as [[Clifford Meth|Aardwolf Publishing]], [[Dark Horse Comics]] and [[NBM Publishing|NBM]], and the [[underground comix]] publisher [[Rip Off Press]]. His last new work was his posthumously published contribution, with four other artists, to the 10-page story "Letters From a Broken Apple", written by Neil Kleid, in Alternative Comics' benefit [[one-shot (comics)|one-shot]] ''[[List of comics about the September 11 attacks|9-11 Emergency Relief]]'' (Jan. 2002).<ref name=gcd />

===Other work===
Morrow worked in [[television animation]], including on a ''[[Spider-Man (1967 TV series)|Spider-Man]]'' TV series,<ref name=collector27p41 /> and was a member of [[The Animation Guild, I.A.T.S.E. Local 839]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://animationguild.org/in-memoriam/#M|title=In Memoriam|publisher=The Animation Guild, I.A.T.S.E. Local 839|access-date=March 24, 2012|archive-date=February 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220155207/http://animationguild.org/in-memoriam/|url-status=live}}</ref>

He painted or drew the theatrical [[one-sheet]] for the [[Al Adamson]] horror film ''[[Five Bloody Graves]]'' (1970), and drew the [[King Kong]] cover of the premiere issue of ''[[The Monster Times]]''.<ref>''The Collector'', p. 43 and inside back cover.</ref>

===Personal life===
By 1973, when he was living in Brooklyn,<ref name=warren73 /> Morrow was married with a family that included adopted children.<ref name=warren75>Roach, Cooke, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ofd-XudNAcC&dq=%22gray+morrow%22+%22adopted+children%22&pg=PA75 75]. Question: "Did you have children?" Morrow: "Adopted children."</ref>

He was living in [[Kunkletown, Pennsylvania]], and suffering from [[Parkinson's disease]]<ref name=orion /> when he died November 6, 2001,<ref name=poconoobit/><ref name=ssdi /> from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<ref name=lam /> He was survived by his later wife,<!--first wife Betty Morrow noted in biography section above; don't know if Pocho was second or possibly third--> Pocho Morrow.<ref name=orion>{{cite press release|url=http://www.majorspoilers.com/nycc11-hermes-press-to-publish-gray-morrows-orion|title=NYCC '11: Hermes Press to publish Gray Morrow's Orion|publisher=Hermes Press|date=October 17, 2011|access-date=March 24, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324223835/http://www.majorspoilers.com/nycc11-hermes-press-to-publish-gray-morrows-orion|archive-date=March 24, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Awards==
Morrow was nominated for the [[Hugo Award]] for [[Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist|best professional artist]] in 1966,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1966-hugo-awards/|title=1966 Hugo Awards|publisher=World Science Fiction Society|access-date=April 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507072919/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1966-hugo-awards/|archive-date=May 7, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> 1967,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1967-hugo-awards/|title=1967 Hugo Awards|publisher=World Science Fiction Society|access-date=April 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507164603/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1967-hugo-awards/|archive-date=May 7, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> and 1968.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1968-hugo-awards/|title=1968 Hugo Awards|publisher=World Science Fiction Society|access-date=April 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507164606/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1968-hugo-awards/|archive-date=May 7, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2005, he was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Associates Hall of Fame in [[Pauls Valley, Oklahoma]], located in the [[Toy and Action Figure Museum]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.actionfiguremuseum.com/Gray%20Morrow%20bio.pdf|title=Gray Morrow (1934-2001)|publisher=Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110908071306/http://www.actionfiguremuseum.com/Gray%20Morrow%20bio.pdf|archive-date=September 8, 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=March 25, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url= http://www.cbgxtra.com/comics-in-the-media/new-cartoonists-hall-of-fame-collection-museum|title= New Cartoonists Hall of Fame Collection & Museum!|last= Bru-Hed|date= December 12, 2005|location= Iola, Wisconsin|magazine= [[Comics Buyer's Guide]]|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130617152238/http://www.cbgxtra.com/comics-in-the-media/new-cartoonists-hall-of-fame-collection-museum|archive-date= June 17, 2013|url-status= dead|access-date= March 25, 2012}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
===Books===
*{{cite book|title=Dark Domain|first1=Gray|last1=Morrow|first2=Phil|last2=Seuling|author-link2=Phil Seuling|publisher=Screen Facts Press|location=[[Kew Gardens, Queens|Kew Gardens]], New York|year=1970}}<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/045950815 ''Dark Domain'']. WorldCat.org. Retrieved March 24, 2012</ref>
*{{cite book|title=Babes & Bimbos: The Unseen Art of Gray Morrow|last=Morrow |first= Gray|year=1994| publisher = C.T. Ltd. Editions|location=[[Morristown, New Jersey]]}}<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/056626590 ''Babes & Bimbos: The Unseen Art of Gray Morrow'']. WorldCat.org. Retrieved March 24, 2012</ref>

===Comics===
====Alternative Comics====
* ''[[List of comics about the September 11 attacks|9-11 Emergency Relief]]'' #1 (2002)

====Archie Comics====
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* ''Archie's Super Hero Comics Digest Magazine'' #2  (Black Hood) (1979)
* ''Archie's Super Hero Special'' #1 (1978)  
* ''[[Black Hood]]'' #1, 3 (1983)
* ''[[Blue Ribbon Comics]]'' vol 2. #8 (1984)  
* ''[[Dark Circle Comics#Red Circle Comics|Chilling Adventures in Sorcery]]'' #3–5 (1973–1974)  
* ''[[Archie's Mad House|Mad House]]'' #97 (1975)  
* ''Red Circle Sorcery'' #6–8, 10–11 (1974–1975)
* ''[[The Super Cops]]'' #1 (1974)
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures]]'' #62, 65–66 (1994–1995)
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====Baronet Publishing====
* ''The Illustrated [[Roger Zelazny]]'' (1979)

====Charlton Comics====
* ''[[List of Space: 1999 books and other media|Space: 1999]]'' #1–3, 5–6, 8 (1975–1976)

====Dark Horse Comics====
* ''[[Dark Horse Presents]]'' #53–55 (1991)
* ''Dark Horse Presents Annual'' (1998)
* ''[[Indiana Jones (comics)|The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'' #3–6 (1992)

====DC Comics====
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* ''[[Adventure Comics]]'' #413–415 (Zatanna); #417, 422 ([[Vigilante (comics)|Vigilante]]) (1971–1972)  
* ''[[All-Star Western]]'' #2–4, 10–11 ([[El Diablo (comics)|El Diablo]]) (1970–1972)  
* ''[[Batman (comic book)|Batman Annual]]'' #13 (1989)  
* ''[[Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight]] Annual'' #3 (1993) 
* ''Christmas with the Super-Heroes'' #2 (1989)  
* ''[[DC Comics Presents]]'' #65 ([[Superman]]/[[Madame Xanadu]]) (1984)
* ''[[G.I. Combat]]'' #159–161 (1973)  
* ''[[Green Arrow]]: The Wonder Year'' #1–4 (1993)  
* ''[[Heroes Against Hunger]]'' #1 (1986)  
* ''[[House of Mystery]]'' #192, 196, 255, 320 (1971–1983)  
* ''[[House of Secrets (DC Comics)|House of Secrets]]'' #86, 89–90 (1970–1971)  
* ''[[Jonah Hex]]'' #90–92 (1985)  
* ''[[Lois Lane]]'' #1–2 (1986)
* ''[[Outsiders (comics)|Outsiders]]'' #12 (1986)  
* ''[[Scarlett (DC Comics)|Scarlett]]'' #5–9 (1993)  
* ''[[Secret Origins]]'' vol. 2 #21 (Jonah Hex) (1987)  
* ''[[Shado (comics)|Shado: Song of the Dragon]]'' #1–4 (1992)  
* ''[[Spectre (DC Comics character)|Spectre]]'' vol. 2 #9–15 (1987–1988)  
* ''[[Star Trek (DC Comics)|Star Trek]]'' #28, 35–36, 56, ''Annual'' #1 (1986–1990)  
* ''[[Supergirl (1984 film)|Supergirl Movie Special]]'' #1 (1985)  
* ''[[Superman (comic book)|Superman]]'' #238 (World of Krypton) (1971)  
* ''[[Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane]]'' #111 ([[Thorn (comics)|Rose and the Thorn]]) (1971)  
* ''[[Tarzan in comics|Tarzan]]'' #208 (1972)  
* ''Who's Who in Star Trek'' #1–2 (1987)
* ''[[Who's Who in the DC Universe|Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe]]'' #4, 7, 25–26 (1985–1987)
* ''Who's Who Update '88'' #4 (1988)
* ''[[The Witching Hour (DC Comics)|The Witching Hour]]'' #10, 13, 15–16 (1970–1971)  
* ''[[World's Finest Comics]]'' #245–248  (Vigilante) (1977) 
* ''[[Young Love (comics)|Young Love]]'' #80, 82 (1970)  
* ''[[Zatanna]] Special'' #1 (1987)

=====Paradox Press=====
* ''[[The Big Book Of|The Big Book Of Bad]]'' (1998)
* ''The Big Book of Hoaxes'' (1996)
* ''The Big Book of Losers'' (1997)
* ''The Big Book of the '70s'' (2000)
* ''The Big Book of the Weird Wild West'' (1998)
* ''The Big Book of Thugs'' (1996)
* ''The Big Book of Vice'' (1999)
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====Eclipse Comics====
* ''3-D Alien Terror'' #1 (1986)
* ''[[Alien Encounters (comics)|Alien Encounters]]'' #10 (1986)
* ''[[Tales of Terror (comics)|Tales of Terror]]'' #3–4 (1985–1986)
* ''[[Twisted Tales]]'' #10 (1984)

====Fantagraphics====
* ''Cosmic Kliti'' #1 (1991)

====[[Apple Comics|Forbidden Fruit]]====
* ''Gray Morrow's Private Commissions'' #1–2 (1992)

====Gilberton Company====
* ''[[Classics Illustrated]]'' #159, 163, 165, 169 (1960–1969)
* ''Classics Illustrated Special Issue'' #159A (1960)
* ''[[The World Around Us (comics)|The World Around Us]]'' #15, 18–19, 23, 25–26, 28, 30, 32 (1959–1961)

====Globe Communications====
* ''[[Cracked (magazine)|Cracked]]'' #228, 241 (1987–1988)
* ''Monsters Attack'' #1–5 (1989–1990)

====Hamilton Comics====
* ''Dread of Night'' #1 (1991)
* ''Grave Tales'' #1 (1991)
* ''Maggots'' #3 (1992)
* ''[[Power Rangers|Saban's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' #1, 4, 6 (1995)

====HM Communications, Inc.====
* ''[[Heavy Metal (magazine)|Heavy Metal]]'' #v1#10, #v1#12–13, #v2#1, #v2#3–8, #v3#1, #v3#3, #v3#5, #v6#8 (1978–1982)

====Marvel Comics====
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* ''[[Adventure into Fear]]'' #10 ([[Man-Thing]]) (1972) 
* ''Astonishing'' #52, 61 (1956–1957) 
* ''[[Barbie]]'' #32 (1993)
* ''Battlefront'' #41 (1956)  
* ''[[Captain America (comic book)|Captain America]]'' #144 (1971)   
* ''[[Tower of Shadows|Creatures on the Loose]]'' #20–21 (1972–1973)
* ''[[The Destroyer (novel series)|Destroyer]]'' #3 (1992)  
* ''Frontier Western'' #8 (1957)  
* ''[[Heroes for Hope]] Starring the X-Men'' #1 (1985)  
* ''[[Hook (film)|Hook Magazine]]'' #1 (1992)  
* ''[[Journey into Mystery]]'' #41–42 (1956–1957)  
* ''[[Journey into Unknown Worlds]]'' #48 (1956)  
* ''[[Kid Colt, Outlaw]]'' #60 (1956)
* ''[[Mark Hazzard: Merc]]'' #1–2, 4, 8, 10–11 (1986–1987)  
* ''[[Marvel Fanfare]]'' #9 (Man-Thing) (1983)  
* ''[[Marvel Graphic Novel]]: The Dreamwalker'' (1989)  
* ''[[Marvel Comics Super Special|Marvel Super Special]]'' #34  ([[Sheena (film)|Sheena]]) (1984)  
* ''[[Marvel Tales (1949–1957)|Marvel Tales]]'' #150, 152, 156 (1956–1957)
* ''[[Monsters Unleashed (comics)|Monsters Unleashed]]'' #3 (1973)  
* ''My Love'' #14 (1971)  
* ''Mystery Tales'' #50 (1957)  
* ''[[Mystic Comics|Mystic]]'' #51 (1956)  
* ''[[Power Pack]]'' #51 (1989)   
* ''Quick-Trigger Western'' #18 (1957)  
* ''[[Savage Tales]]'' #1–2 (1971–1973)  
* ''Savage Tales'' vol. 2 #1–2, 7 (1985–1986)   
* ''Strange Stories of Suspense'' #13 (1957)  
* ''[[Strange Tales]]'' #52, 54, 57 (1956–1957)  
* ''Strange Tales of the Unusual'' #10 (1957)  
* ''Two-Gun Western'' #9–10 (1957)  
* ''[[Uncanny Tales (comics)|Uncanny Tales]]'' #46, 51 (1956–1957)  
* ''[[Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction]]'' #5  (1975)  
* ''[[Western Gunfighters]]'' #26 (1957)  
* ''[[World of Fantasy]]'' #7 (1957)

=====Epic Comics=====
* ''[[Hellraiser (franchise)|Clive Barker's Hellraiser]]'' #8 (1991)
* ''Powerline'' #4–7 (1989)
* ''[[Shadowline (Epic Comics)|A Shadowline Saga: Critical Mass]]'' #1, 3–4, 6–7 (1990)
* ''[[Wild Cards#Comics|Wild Cards]]'' #4 (1990)    
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====Pacific Comics====
* ''[[Alien Worlds]]'' #7 (1984)  
* ''[[Edge of Chaos (comics)|Edge of Chaos]]'' #1–3 (1983–1984)

====Penthouse====
* ''[[Penthouse Comix]]'' #2–7 (1994–1995)

====Valiant Comics====
* ''Nintendo Comics System'' #1 (1991)

====Warren Publishing====
* ''[[Blazing Combat]]'' #1–3 (1965–1966)
* ''[[Creepy (magazine)|Creepy]]'' #1–7, 9–10, 13, 20, 24, 26, 55, 87 (1964–1977)
* ''[[Eerie (magazine)|Eerie]]'' #2, 4, 15, 19 (1966–1968)

====Wonderful Publishing Company====
* ''[[witzend]]'' #6–7 (1969–1970)

== References ==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book|title=Gray Morrow: Visionary|first1=Mark |last1=Wheatley|author-link1= Mark Wheatley (comics)|first2= Allan, eds.|last2= Gross|year=2001| publisher = Insight Studios Group |isbn=978-1889317120}}

== External links ==
*{{cite web|author-link=Mark Evanier|last=Evanier|first= Mark|url= http://www.newsfromme.com/2001/11/08/gray-morrow-r-i-p/|title=A FINE comic book/strip artist named Gray Morrow died on 11/6 ...|publisher= P.O.V. Online|date=November 8, 2001}} (Requires scrolldown.)
*{{cite web |url= http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?383610-Archie-s-foray-into-the-Horror-genre |title= Archie's Foray Into the Horror Genre |first= Brian |last= Gravity |date= September 7, 2011 |website= [[Comic Book Resources]] |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180803014056/http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?383610-Archie-s-foray-into-the-Horror-genre |archive-date= August 3, 2018 |url-status= dead |access-date= March 25, 2011 }}

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