Sol Brodsky
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Sol Brodsky (April 22, 1923, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States – June 4, 1984) was an American comic book artist who, as Marvel Comics' Silver Age production manager, was one of the key architects of the small company's expansion to a major pop culture conglomerate. He later rose to vice president, operations and vice president, special projects. "Sol was really my right-hand man for years", described Marvel editor and company patriarch Stan Lee.
Brodsky worked primarily behind the scenes, uncredited. His accomplishments include co-creating, with letterer Artie Simek, the long-familiar logo of The Amazing Spider-Man, as well as other Marvel logos still in use in the mid-2000s. He was belatedly credited after decades as the inker of the legendary Jack Kirby's pencil art for The Fantastic Four #3-4 (March-May 1962) and many other landmark comics. When the famed but troubled artist Bill Everett turned in Daredevil #1 (April 1964) extremely late, Brodsky and Spider-Man artist Steve Ditko inked "a lot of backgrounds and secondary figures on the fly [and] cobbled the cover and the splash page together from Kirby's original concept drawing", per Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada.
So integral was Brodsky to the Marvel phenomenon, and so well-liked, that even after leaving to co-found a rival company, Skywald Publications, he was welcomed back after some months at that eventually defunct firm.
