George Tuska was best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1960s and 1970s, where he illustrated the Iron Man title for over a decade.
Tuska was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on April 26, 1916, and began working in New York’s comic book industry in the late 1930s. He illustrated comics for such publishers as Fiction House, Fawcett, and Quality. Tuska became noted for his work on crime fiction comics after World War II, including Lev Gleason’s Crime Does Not Pay. He also began working for Timely Comics (which later became Marvel) in 1949. He drew crime, war, western, and horror titles there over the next several years.
He also worked in comic strips, writing and drawing “Scorchy Smith” from 1954 to 1959, and illustrating the classic science fiction strip “Buck Rogers” from 1959 to 1967.
He also returned to Marvel in the early 1960, where he 
illustrated such titles as Ghost Rider, Luke Cage, Sub-Mariner, X-Men, and Planet of the Apes. Tuska was lead artist for Iron Man from 1968 to 1978.
He subsequently moved to DC, where he drew the characters Superman, Superboy, and the Challengers of the Unknown. He also illustrated the long running comic strip The World’s Greatest Superheroes Present Superman from 1978 to 1993.
Tuska died in Manchester, New Jersey, on October 15, 2009, at the age of 93.
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