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American comic book artist and writer

Lawrence D. Lieber ('/l//iː//b//ər/; born October 26, 1931) is an American comic book writer and artist best known as co creator of the Marvel Comics superheroes Iron Man, Thor, and Ant Man. He is also known for his long stint both writing and drawing the Marvel Western Rawhide Kid and for illustrating the newspaper comic strip The Amazing Spider Man from 1986 to 2018. From 1974 to 1975, he was editor of Atlas/Seaboard Comics. Lieber is the younger brother of the late Marvel Comics writer, editor, and publisher Stan Lee.

Larry Lieber was born in Manhattan, New York City, the second child of Romanian Jewish immigrant parents Celia (née Solomon) and Jack Lieber, and the brother of Stanley Martin Lieber, later known as Marvel Comics editor and impresario Stan Lee. When he was six months old, the family moved to The Bronx, settling at 1720 University Avenue, which Lee described as a one bedroom, "third floor apartment facing out back", with him and Larry sharing a bedroom and his parents using a foldout couch. At "about ten and a half", with his brother in the U. S. Army, Lieber and his parents returned to Manhattan, moving to the Washington Heights neighborhood. Lee elsewhere described that move to a two story, three bedroom home at 1084 West Broadway as occurring in 1949, when Larry would have been 17 or 18. As Lieber recalled it to comics historian Daniel Best, "My mother died when I was 16. My brother was back from the Service, he was just married and he moved out outside of New York to Long Island. I lived with him for a while and it didn't work out so well. I wanted to leave, so I left. I was very young and I had a couple of jobs." At 17, Lieber became a messenger for The New York Times and also found work at the Times Square studio of Sam Furber, a letterer whose work included movie posters. For roughly a year and a half, he lived in the since defunct Hotel Manhattan Towers, a residence hotel at Broadway and West 76th Street in Manhattan.

In 1941, Lee was made the editor of Timely Comics, the future Marvel Comics, then a division of a publishing company owned by a relative, Martin Goodman. There Lieber began illustrating comic books; his first known credit is penciling and inking the four page crime comics story "Cop on the Beat", by an unknown writer, in All True Crime #44 (cover dated May 1951). In 1951, he enlisted He again drew for his brother, editor Stan Lee, at the 1950s forerunner of Marvel Comics, known generally as Atlas Comics, though whether on staff or freelance is uncertain. Regardless, his next confirmed credit is penciling and inking the three page story "A World to Conquer" in Journey into Unknown Worlds #52 (Dec. 1956), followed by stories in such Atlas romance comics as Love Romances, Love Tales, Stories of Romance, True Tales of Love and The Romances of Nurse Helen Grant in issues cover dated April to August 1957 and July 1958. In 1958, following an economic downturn for the publisher and the firing of virtually all the comics staffers save Lee, "Stan said he wanted somebody to help him write, and he had nobody then; he was doing it all himself. I said, 'I'm not really a writer.' He said, 'Oh, I've read your letters.'"

Lieber was a recipient of the San Diego Comic Con International's 2003 Inkpot Awards. In 2008, he was one of two recipients of that year's Bill Finger Award, which annually honors one living and one deceased comics creator. The award was presented July 25, 2008, during the 2008 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards ceremony at Comic Con International.