Ray Moore
| Raymond S. Moore | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Born: | February 27, 1905 |
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| Died: | January 13, 1984 |
| Nationality: |  American
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| Occupation: | Artist |
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Ray Moore assisted Phil Davis (with some of the inking ?) on the Mandrake the Magician comic strip a short periode before he, together with Lee Falk, created The Phantom in 1936.
Life and career
David Yearly Moore married Martha S(tephens) in 1898 and the first years they lived with David's family at Bedford. David and Martha moved to St Louis before 1910 and had three children: Mary A, Raymond S and David Yearly jr. (Ray is said to have been born in Oklahoma or Montgomery City (Mo)). In St Louis David worked as a jeweler.
Little is known about Ray Moore's life before (and after) he started his career as artist on The Phantom. It is written that he originally intended to become an engineer, before he realised that he could live off his job as an artist. And it is written that he attended Washington University Art School in St. Louis, but according to United States census 1940 he had only one year at college.
Ray in 1934. Two years before he started as artist for the newspaper comic strips The Phantom he married Claire Lydia Moehlenbrock. During his WW II duty Ray was involved in an accident, which made him unable to keep on drawing The Phantom and his assistant Wilson McCoy became the artist for the ongoing strips. Ray and Claire bought a house on a remote hill in West County in 1949.
Ray Moore died in 1984 of natural causes. He was survived by his wife, Claire, who passed away in 2005.
Note
Sometime one read that Ray's middle name S is Schettler, after his mothers family name. But Schettler are the family name of Alwin H Schettler who married Meta C Moehlenbrock, the sister of Ray's wife. The S is more likly his mothers maiden name, Stephens.
References
- Ancestry.com; United States Census