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American illustrator

Dwight Graydon "Gray" Morrow (March 7, 1934 – November 6, 2001) was an American illustrator of comics, magazine covers and paperback books. He is co creator of the Marvel Comics muck monster the Man Thing and of DC Comics Old West vigilante El Diablo.

Morrow was born March 7, 1934, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and he attended North Side High School. He recalled in 1973 that, "Comic art was certainly the first artform I remember being impressed with [T]hose gorgeous gory newsstand spreads " and working a number of odd jobs including "soda jerk, street repairman, tie designer, exercise boy on the race track circuit, etc.," he enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago, Illinois, in late summer 1954, studying two nights a week for three months under Jerry Warshaw for "the total of my entire formal art training." He joined the city's Feldkamp Malloy art studio, later being fired. Feeling encouraged by a meeting with comic strip artist Allen Saunders, Morrow submitted strip samples to various syndicates with no luck. drawing several supernatural fantasy stories plus at least four Westerns and one war story on titles cover dated July 1956 to June 1957. Morrow illustrated several stories for EC Comics in the 1950s, including horror, suspense and science fiction. He later did covers and stories for the company's New Trend comics and Picto Fiction magazines. Stationed at Incheon and Wolmido Island, South Korea, with Fox Company, he did "illustrations and paintings for the officers' club, day rooms, insignias on helmets for their parades you know, anything and everything. That was my official duty." which he said he penciled and inked at the rate of "eight pages a day as fast as I've ever been able to go" since "I'd moved to California and needed those checks badly." Morrow also supplied drawings for chapters in Classics Illustrated Special Issue #159A, Rockets, Jets and Missiles (Dec. 1960), and in 13 World Around Us issues ranging from Prehistoric Animals (Nov. 1959) to Famous Teens (May 1961). One of those, #W28, Whaling (Dec. 1960), resulted in unexpected controversy when he accurately depicted African American whalers:

blockquote|[T]he page rate [at Gilberton in general] wasn't much for the accuracy and authenticity they expected, but it was a challenge to 'do it right.' Roberta and Len Cole were demanding but genial editors. One job I do remember something about whaling, got me in dutch [i. e. trouble] with Roberta. My research indicated that many of the whalers were black — so that's what I drew. She had a fit and insisted they all be redrawn to 'avoid controversy.' Teddy Roosevelt, Young Rough Rider, and Abner Doubleday: Young Baseball Pioneer, were reprinted by successor publishers in the 1980s and 1990s. Morrow next began a three year association with Warren Publishing's line of black and white horror comics magazines in 1964, starting with the six page story "Bewitched!," written by Larry Ivie, in Creepy #1, and contributed over a dozen stories to that magazine and its sister publication Eerie, as well as to the war comics magazine Blazing Combat, through 1967. By 1970, Morrow was married to Betty Morrow, who wrote a story he drew, "The Journey", in the early independent comic witzend #7 (1970). That same year he returned to color comics, drawing several supernatural fantasy stories for DC Comics' Witching Hour, House of Secrets and House of Mystery, as well as a smattering of romance and superhero tales. He did a small amount of work for Marvel during this time, with the cover and a romance story for My Love #14 (Nov. 1971), a Man Thing cover and story in Adventure into Fear #10 (Oct. 1972), two "Gullivar Jones, Warrior of Mars" stories in Creatures on the Loose #20 21 (Nov. 1972 Jan. 1973), and virtually his only Marvel superhero story, a 10 page Falcon feature in Captain America #144 (Dec. 1971). Through 1974 and early 1975, he edited and frequently drew stories for Archie Comics' imprint of non teen humor titles, Red Circle Comics, including Chilling Adventures in Sorcery, its successor Red Circle Sorcery, and the single issue The Super Cops, based on two real life New York City Police Department detectives. In 1978, he began publishing, in Heavy Metal magazine, a series of stories that would be collected in 2012 as chapters of the sword and sorcery graphic novel Orion. Likewise, his Playboy feature "Amora", which he both wrote and drew, He illustrated and colored each of the several Roger Zelazny stories that the author self adapted for the 96 page graphic short story collection The Illustrated Roger Zelazny, produced by Byron Preiss Enterprizes and published by Baronet Publishing in February 1979. to those of Mark Hazzard: Merc, as well as horror and science fiction stories for Eclipse Comics; satirical humor for Cracked; "The Sex Vampires from Outer Space" and other stories for the same publisher's black and white comics magazine Monsters Attack; and Marvel Graphic Novel: Dreamwalker (1989), a 63 page superhero/espionage thriller written by actors Miguel Ferrer and Bill Mumy. movies in 1984. Morrow briefly drew DC's Spectre series in 1988. The following decade, continuing his trend of wide ranging work, he drew the superhero feature "Powerline", by writers D. G. Chichester and Margaret Clark, in several issues of the Marvel/Epic Comics anthology A Shadowline Saga: Critical Mass; inked Michael Davis Lawrence on writer Mike Grell's DC Comics miniseries Shado: Song of the Dragon #1 4; contributed to DC's "The Big Book of " trade paperback line of non fiction vignettes on a variety of topics; drew the Historical Souvenir Co.'s 40 page, non fiction Epic Battles of the Civil War #2 Shiloh (1998); drew children's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers adventurers for Hamilton Comics and adult oriented stories for Penthouse Comix; and did work for such independent comics publishers as Aardwolf Publishing, Dark Horse Comics and NBM, and the underground comix publisher Rip Off Press. His last new work was his posthumously published contribution, with four other artists, to the 10 page story "Letters From a Broken Apple", written by Neil Kleid, in Alternative Comics' benefit one shot 9 11 Emergency Relief (Jan. 2002). He painted or drew the theatrical one sheet for the Al Adamson horror film Five Bloody Graves (1970), and drew the King Kong cover of the premiere issue of The Monster Times.

Morrow was nominated for the Hugo Award for best professional artist in 1966, 1967, and 1968. In 2005, he was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Associates Hall of Fame in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, located in the Toy and Action Figure Museum.