RAY BAILEY

According to Lambiek Comiclopedia: "Ray Bailey grew up in a newspaper environment as the son of Ray W. Bailey, a reporter for a New York paper. He started out working for the Fleischer Studios in Manhattan, cooperating on animated cartoons of 'Betty Boop' and 'Popeye'. At the same time he made illustrations for several journals. In the late 1930s Bailey was an assistant on Gus Edson's 'The Gumps' and later on Milton Caniff's comics 'Terry and the Pirates', 'Male Call' and 'Steve Canyon'."