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Frederick Whitney Ellsworth (November 27, 1908 β September 7, 1980) was an American comic book editor and sometime writer and artist for DC Comics during the period known to historians and fans as the Golden Age of Comic Books. He was also DC's "movie studio contact", becoming both a producer and story editor on the TV series The Adventures of Superman. Whitney "Whit" Ellsworth was born in Brooklyn, New York. He took a cartooning course at the YMCA in Brooklyn and worked on the syndicated features Dumb Dora (for Newspaper Feature Service), Embarrassing Moments (providing plots, pencils and inks for both) and Just Kids (assisting with pencils and inks, for the King Features Syndicate) between 1927 and 1929. In the early 1930s, he began working on another syndicated feature, Tillie the Toiler, for King, as well as writing gag cartoons, articles and features for the Newark Star-Eagle/Ledger newspaper (1931β1934), also finding time to work on a number of pulp magazine stories throughout the 1930s.
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Birthday1908-11-27
Deathday1980-09-07 (71 years old)
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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