Comic artist Allen Bellman, who worked at Timely Comics and Atlas Comics during the Golden Age, died on March 9, 2020. He was 95 years old.

Born in Manhattan on June 5, 1924, Bellman attended the High School of Industrial Arts, then became a staff artist at Timely. When he was still a teenager, he did the backgrounds for Syd Shores on Captain America in 1942, making him one of the earliest artists to draw Cap.

Bellman went on to work on titles like The Patriot, The Human Torch, The Destroyer, All Winners Comics, Marvel Mystery, Sub-Mariner Comics, and Young Allies. He created the back-up crime feature Let’s Play Detective. Outside of superhero titles, Bellman worked on pre-Code horror, crime, war, western stories, and jungle adventures.

Along with comics, he worked in the art department of The South Florida Sun-Sentinel at a young age, which ignited an interest in photography. Throughout his career, he won nationwide contests, hundreds of his photos have appeared in books, and have been exhibited in museums in Florida.

Though he retired from comics in the ’60s, he attended comic conventions into his 90s.