Stan Goldberg

Stan Goldberg (May 5, 1932 – August 31, 2014) was an American comic book artist, best known for his work with Archie Comics and as a Marvel Comics colorist who in the 1960s helped design the original color schemes of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and other major characters. He was inducted into the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame in 2011.

Early life Goldberg was born in The Bronx, New York City, on May 5, 1932. He graduated from the School of Industrial Art high school in Manhattan. In that capacity, he said, he "colored not just interiors, but also every cover the rest of the decade" for Timely's successor, Atlas Comics. As he recalled in the mid-2000s of the Atlas staff:

The Silver Age

Goldberg went freelance in 1958, and where one instructor was influential Batman artist Jerry Robinson. As Atlas segued into Marvel, Goldberg began freelance-coloring the company's comic books through the mid-1960s, working with such artists as Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby to create the color designs for such characters as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk and others during what historians call the Silver Age of comic books.

Archie Comics and afterward Goldberg stopped freelancing for Marvel in 1969, and for three years drew the DC Comics teen titles Date with Debbi, Swing with Scooter and Leave It to Binky. In 1994, Goldberg was chosen to pencil Archie Comics' portion of the intercompany crossover Archie Meets the Punisher, a one-shot in which the gritty, homicidal Marvel vigilante finds himself pursuing an Archie Andrews look-alike into bucolic Riverdale. The following year, he drew the Archie gang for the cover of the Long Island weekly newspaper Dan's Papers. He penciled a six-page Betty story, "I'll Take Manhattan", published August 17, 2003, in The New York Times''' Fashion of the Times magazine supplement.

Goldberg ended his nearly 40-year relationship with Archie with two three-part, alternate-future stories in Archie #600-605 (Oct. 2009 - March 2010), "Archie Marries Veronica" and "Archie Marries Betty", followed by some additional, final work including two pages of a flashback sequence in the 25-page "Love Finds Archie Andrews: Archie Loves Betty" in the comics magazine Life With Archie #1 (Sept. 2010), and the cover of, and an 11-page story in, Tales from Riverdale Digest #39 (Oct. 2010).

Goldberg's other late-career comics work includes issues of DC's talking animal superhero series Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew in the early 1980s, and the Jewish-themed children's comic book Mendy and the Golem in 2003. In the 2010s, he drew variant covers for Marvel's FF #1 (May 2011) and IDW Publishing's superhero-humor comic Love and Capes: Ever After #5 (June 2011), as well as the Archie Comics parody story "Everything's Bartchie!" in Bongo Comics' Simpsons Comics #183 (Oct. 2011). That year he also drew an anti-bullying educational comic, Rise Above, for the organization Rise Above Social Issues.

In 2010, IDW released the 160-page hardcover collection Archie: The Best of Stan Goldberg'', with a new Goldberg cover.

Other work In addition to comic-book illustration and coloring, Goldberg drew gag cartoons for men's magazines and did advertising art including a billboard for No-Cal Soda.

Awards and recognition Goldberg won a Comic-Con International Inkpot Award in 1994. At that comic book convention in 2003, he was the subject of the panel "Spotlight on Stan Goldberg".

Goldberg was the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame inductee for 2011, which is accompanied by the organization's Gold Key Award, presented to Goldberg on May 26, 2012.

Personal life Goldberg and his wife, Pauline Mirsky, who married in the early 1960s, They have two sons: Stephen, an advertising agency media director, and Bennett, a graphic designer with whom Goldberg has worked on book projects. Afterward the Goldbergs became involved with the organization Parents of Murdered Children. at the age of 82 on August 31, 2014, the result of a stroke he had suffered two weeks prior.