Who is Sid Greene?

Not much seems to be known about Sidney Greene's personal life. This artist/inker for many comics was born on June 18, 1906.

Greene began freelancing for Funnies Inc., a comics packager, probably in the late 1930s. His first confirmed work was a "Spark Stevens" story appearing in The Green Mask #5 (1941) for Fox Comics. It's believed he worked on stories for Fiction House's Planet Comics and Fight Comics as early as 1940, but as comics were rarely credited, it's hard to say if he was the artist on them.

His first credited work was for a Patriot story appearing in Timely Comics' The Human Torch #5. As regular readers of this blog will know, it was not unusual for comics artists and writers in the Golden Age to take work where they could get it, so he worked for a variety of comic companies, so he worked on other comics for Timely, including Captain America, and would later freelance for them through the time they went as Atlas Comics before being re-branded as Marvel Comics. He would also work on comics for Novelty Press, Ace Comics, Eastern Color, Hillman Periodicals, Holyoke Publishing, Avon Comics, Orbit Publications, Quality Comics, and Ziff-Davis.

Greene's first known work for National Publications (DC Comics) was in Secret Hearts #18 in 1953. In a little over a year, he began working on stories in Mystery in Space, where he would work with future Elongated Man scribe Gardner Fox in creating the Star Rovers. However, he wouldn't begin working in superhero comics until 1963, when he inked a story in The Atom #8. The next year, he would begin inking the Elongated Man feature in Detective Comics, and the next year would see him put his inking talents toward Batman, both in the character's main title and Detective Comics. He would also begin inking regularly for Justice League of America in addition to various other comics.

Although Greene's work for DC became his claim to fame, in his later years, he freelanced for Marvel, inking a Ka-Zar story in Marvel Super-Heroes #19 and a feature story in Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #12. Greene's final stories were published in March, 1970, in DC's The Unexpected #117 and House of Secrets #84.

Sid Greene died in a hospital in Port Jervis, New York in October, 1972.