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Bob Oksner passes away at age 90

Posted by Alan Gardner
February 21, 2007

Bob Oksner, who created the comic strip Miss Cairo Jones in 1945 and a couple other minor strips (I Love Lucy, Soozi) in the 50s and 60s passed away on Sunday at the age of 90. Bob was mostly known for his work in the comic book field working on titles such as Green Lantern, The Flash, Shazam, Superman adn Supergirl to name a few. Bob won a NCS Award in 1960 and 1961, the Shazam Award in 1970 for Best Pencil Artist.

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#1 jim taylor
May/7/2007
@ 2:57 am

sad to read about the death of a person that made others laugh [ i have never heard of this man ] but my comment still applies.

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