D. Bruce Berry Explained

Birth Name:	Douglas Bruce Berry
Birth Date:	January 24, 1924
Birth Place:	Oakland, California
Death Place:	Long Beach, California
Nationality:	American
Area:	Penciller, Inker, Letterer
Cartoonist:	y
Pencil:	y
Ink:	y
Letter:	y
Notable Works:	Kamandi OMAC
Awards:	1964 Alley Award "Best Fan Comic Strip"

Douglas Bruce Berry^[1] (January 24, 1924^[2] – September 30, 1998)^[3] was an American comic book artist who is best known as the inker of several of Jack Kirby's comic book series in the 1970s.

Biography

D. Bruce Berry was born in Oakland, California and served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He worked in the advertising industry for 29 years and drew for various fanzines including Bill Spicer's Fantasy Illustrated in 1963–1964. Berry and Spicer collaborated with Eando Binder on an Adam Link story which won the 1964 Alley Award in the category "Best Fan Comic Strip".^[4] In the late 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles. He began inking and lettering Jack Kirby's Kamandi series as of issue #16 (April 1974) and worked with Kirby for the next two years. In 2019, TwoMorrows Publishing released Jack Kirby's Dingbat Love, a collection of previously unpublished work which Kirby had drawn for DC Comics in the 1970s. This included a "Dingbats of Danger Street" story inked by Berry.^[5]

Bibliography

Bill Spicer

Fantasy Illustrated #1–2 (1963–1964)

DC Comics

1st Issue Special #1 (Atlas), #5 (Manhunter) (1975)
DC Graphic Novel #4 ("The Hunger Dogs") (1985)
Kamandi #16–37 (1974–1976)
Kobra #1 (1976)
New Gods vol. 2 #6 (1984)
OMAC #2–7 (1974–1975)
Our Fighting Forces #151–152, 154–155, 161–162 (The Losers) (1974–1975)
Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter #3 (1975)

Marvel Comics

Amazing Adventures #33 (Killraven) (1975)
Captain America #191–192, 195–196 (1975–1976)

Pacific Comics

Silver Star #3–6 (1983–1984)

Texas Trio

Star-Studded Comics #6 (1965)

TwoMorrows Publishing

Jack Kirby's Dingbat Love (Dingbats of Danger Street) (2019)

External links

- D. Bruce Berry at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
D. Bruce Berry at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators

Notes and References

Web site: Berry, D. Bruce. Jerry. Bails. Jerry Bails. n.d.. Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928–1999. https://web.archive.org/web/20170102030854/http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BERRY%2C+D.+BRUCE. January 2, 2017. live. mdy-all.
Morrow. John. D. Bruce Berry Speaks. The Jack Kirby Collector. 17. 36. TwoMorrows Publishing. November 1997. Raleigh, North Carolina.
Web site: Berry, D. Bruce. D. Bruce Berry drawings of space ships, 1958: Guide.. February 17, 2015. Houghton Library, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://web.archive.org/web/20161002212421/http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou02209. October 2, 2016. dead. mdy-all. January 2, 2017.
Web site: 1964 Alley Awards. Hahn Library Comic Book Awards Almanac. https://web.archive.org/web/20160616174915/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/alley64.php. June 16, 2016. live. mdy-all.
Web site: Jack Kirby's Dingbat Love: Unpublished '70s Stories by the King of Comics!. KC. Carlson. February 28, 2020. Comicsworthreading.com. https://archive.today/20200802032542/https://comicsworthreading.com/2020/02/28/jack-kirbys-dingbat-love/. August 2, 2020. live. mdy-all.