Bob Lubbers

Bob Lubbers was an American comic artist, who was especially known for his "good girl art". He began his career in the comic book industry during the so-called "Golden Age of Comic Books", drawing for companies like Centaur Publishing and Fiction House. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s he worked on many syndicated comic strips for newspapers, including 'Tarzan' (1950-1954), 'Long Sam' (1954-1962), 'Secret Agent X-9' (1960-1967), 'Li'l Abner' (±1958-1977) and his own creation, 'Robin Malone' (1967-1970). Tarzan By 1950, Lubbers shared a studio with Stan Drake and John Celardo, and switched from comic books to newspaper comics. He was employed by United Feature Syndicate, where he initially worked on the 'Tarzan' newspaper comic from July 1950 through August 1954. He succeeded Nick Cardy on the daily strip, and Burne Hogarth on the Sunday page. Lubbers admitted on a later date that he was only familiar with cartoonist Hal Foster and movie actor Johnny Weissmuller's work with the jungle hero, and never read any of Edgar Rice Burroughs' original novels. He and writer Dick Van Buren managed to fill their stories with a lot of action, jungle animals, colorful backgrounds and exotic girls. 'Tarzan' was continued by Lubbers' studio mate John Celardo in 1954, and Lubbers moved on to work with Al Capp.