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class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">Reed Leonard Crandall<br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1917-02-22</span>)</span>February 22, 1917<br /><a href="/wiki/Winslow,_Indiana" title="Winslow, Indiana">Winslow, Indiana</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">September 13, 1982<span style="display:none">(1982-09-13)</span> (aged 65)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">American</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Area(s)</span></th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Penciller" title="Penciller">Penciller</a>, <a href="/wiki/Inker" title="Inker">Inker</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Pseudonym(s)</span></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">E. Lectron</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Notable works</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Blackhawk_(DC_Comics)" title="Blackhawk (DC Comics)">Blackhawk</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/EC_Comics" title="EC Comics">EC Comics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Eisner_Award_winners#The_Will_Eisner_Award_Hall_of_Fame" title="List of Eisner Award winners">Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Inkwell_Awards" title="Inkwell Awards">Inkwell Awards</a> SASRA (2023)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Reed Leonard Crandall</b> (February 22, 1917 – September 13, 1982)<sup id="cite_ref-ssdi_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssdi-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American <a href="/wiki/Illustrator" title="Illustrator">illustrator</a> and <a href="/wiki/Penciller" title="Penciller">penciller</a> of <a href="/wiki/Comic_book" title="Comic book">comic books</a> and <a href="/wiki/Magazine" title="Magazine">magazines</a>. He was best known for the 1940s <a href="/wiki/Quality_Comics" title="Quality Comics">Quality Comics</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/Blackhawk_(DC_Comics)" title="Blackhawk (DC Comics)">Blackhawk</a></i> and for stories in <a href="/wiki/EC_Comics" title="EC Comics">EC Comics</a> during the 1950s. Crandall was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Eisner_Award_winners#The_Will_Eisner_Award_Hall_of_Fame" title="List of Eisner Award winners">Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame</a> in 2009. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reed_Crandall&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reed_Crandall&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Reed Crandall was born in <a href="/wiki/Winslow,_Indiana" title="Winslow, Indiana">Winslow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-lambiek_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lambiek-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the son of Rayburn Crandall and wife.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Crandall graduated from <a href="/wiki/Newton_High_School_(Kansas)" title="Newton High School (Kansas)">Newton High School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Newton,_Kansas" title="Newton, Kansas">Newton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a>, in 1935,<sup id="cite_ref-cooke65_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cooke65-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then attended the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_School_of_Art" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland School of Art">Cleveland School of Art</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cleveland,_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland, Ohio">Cleveland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-stiles_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stiles-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on a scholarship.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He graduated in 1939.<sup id="cite_ref-cooke65_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cooke65-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father died in the spring of Crandall's freshman year at art school, which Crandall left temporarily to return to Kansas.<sup id="cite_ref-borth66_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-borth66-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His mother and sister moved to Cleveland during Crandall's junior year.<sup id="cite_ref-borth66_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-borth66-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With his schoolmate Frank Borth, Crandall found work painting signs on storefront windows.<sup id="cite_ref-borth66_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-borth66-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Crandall's art influences included the painters and commercial illustrators <a href="/wiki/N.C._Wyeth" class="mw-redirect" title="N.C. Wyeth">N.C. Wyeth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Howard_Pyle" title="Howard Pyle">Howard Pyle</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Montgomery_Flagg" title="James Montgomery Flagg">James Montgomery Flagg</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-stiles_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stiles-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another classmate, the son of the president of the Cleveland-based <a href="/wiki/Newspaper_Enterprise_Association" title="Newspaper Enterprise Association">Newspaper Enterprise Association</a> syndicate, recommended Crandall for a job at NEA as a general art assistant, where Crandall drew maps and other supporting material.<sup id="cite_ref-borth67_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-borth67-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following his desire to be a magazine illustrator, Crandall unsuccessfully made the rounds of glossy magazines in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-borth67_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-borth67-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and at some point did a small amount of work for a <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">children's book</a> publisher.<sup id="cite_ref-lambiek_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lambiek-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moving to New York with his mother and sister, Crandall found work in the fledgling medium of <a href="/wiki/Comic_books" class="mw-redirect" title="Comic books">comic books</a>, joining the <a href="/wiki/Eisner_%26_Iger" title="Eisner & Iger">Eisner and Iger Studio</a>, an early <a href="/wiki/Comic_book_packager" class="mw-redirect" title="Comic book packager">comic book packager</a> that supplied complete, outsourced comics for publishers.<sup id="cite_ref-lambiek_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lambiek-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quality_Comics">Quality Comics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reed_Crandall&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Quality Comics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HitComics18.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/HitComics18.jpg/220px-HitComics18.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="299" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/HitComics18.jpg/330px-HitComics18.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/HitComics18.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="543" /></a><figcaption><i>Hit Comics</i> #18 (Dec. 1941), featuring Stormy Foster. Cover art by Crandall.</figcaption></figure> <p>Crandall drew for comic books from 1939 until 1973. His first work appears in comics from publisher <a href="/wiki/Quality_Comics" title="Quality Comics">Quality Comics</a>, for which he drew stories starring such <a href="/wiki/Superhero" title="Superhero">superheroes</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Ray_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ray (comics)">Ray</a> (in <i>Smash Comics</i>, beginning in 1941 and initially under the playful <a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">pseudonym</a> <b>E. Lectron</b>)<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Doll_Man" title="Doll Man">Doll Man</a> (first in <i>Feature Comics</i> in 1941, then in the character's own solo title). His earliest confirmed cover art is for <a href="/wiki/Fiction_House" title="Fiction House">Fiction House</a>'s <i>Fight Comics</i> #12 (April 1941) at the Grand Comics Database.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other early work includes <a href="/wiki/Inker" title="Inker">inking</a> the <a href="/wiki/Penciler" class="mw-redirect" title="Penciler">pencil art</a> of future industry legend <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kirby" title="Jack Kirby">Jack Kirby</a> on two of the earliest <a href="/wiki/Captain_America" title="Captain America">Captain America</a> stories, "The Ageless Orientals That Wouldn't Die", in <i>Captain America Comics</i> #2 (April 1941),<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "The Queer Case of the Murdering Butterfly and the Ancient Mummies" in #3 (May 1941).<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With <a href="/wiki/S.M._%22Jerry%22_Iger" class="mw-redirect" title="S.M. "Jerry" Iger">S.M. "Jerry" Iger</a> credited as writer, Crandall co-created the superhero the Firebrand in Quality's <i><a href="/wiki/Police_Comics" title="Police Comics">Police Comics</a></i> #1 (Aug. 1941) and began his long run as artist of his signature series, the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> aviator-team strip "<a href="/wiki/Blackhawk_(DC_Comics)" title="Blackhawk (DC Comics)">Blackhawk</a>", in <i><a href="/wiki/Military_Comics" title="Military Comics">Military Comics</a></i> #12-22 (Oct. 1942 - Sept. 1943) and, after his WWII service in the <a href="/wiki/Army_Air_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Air Force">Army Air Force</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-stiles_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stiles-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <i>Blackhawk</i> and in <i>Modern Comics</i>. During this time he also drew the adventures of <a href="/wiki/Captain_Triumph" title="Captain Triumph">Captain Triumph</a> in Quality's <i>Crack Comics</i>. His final "Blackhawk" work was a seven-page story, plus the cover, for <i>Blackhawk</i> #67 (Aug. 1953). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="EC_Comics_and_afterward">EC Comics and afterward</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reed_Crandall&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: EC Comics and afterward"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Crandall went on to become a mainstay of <a href="/wiki/EC_Comics" title="EC Comics">EC Comics</a>, whose line of hit <a href="/wiki/Horror_fiction" title="Horror fiction">horror</a> and <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> titles would become as influential to future generations of comics creators as they were controversial in their own time due to their often graphic nature and mature themes. Joining a group that included artists <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Craig" title="Johnny Craig">Johnny Craig</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Davis_(cartoonist)" title="Jack Davis (cartoonist)">Jack Davis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Will_Elder" title="Will Elder">Will Elder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Frazetta" title="Frank Frazetta">Frank Frazetta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Graham_Ingels" title="Graham Ingels">Graham Ingels</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kamen" title="Jack Kamen">Jack Kamen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Krigstein" title="Bernard Krigstein">Bernard Krigstein</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wally_Wood" title="Wally Wood">Wally Wood</a>, Crandall made his debut there with the six-page story "Bloody Sure", written by <a href="/wiki/Al_Feldstein" title="Al Feldstein">Al Feldstein</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Haunt_of_Fear" title="The Haunt of Fear">The Haunt of Fear</a></i> #20 (August 1953). </p><p>He drew dozens of stories across a variety of genres for the EC anthologies <i><a href="/wiki/Crime_SuspenStories" title="Crime SuspenStories">Crime SuspenStories</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Shock_SuspenStories" title="Shock SuspenStories">Shock SuspenStories</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_the_Crypt_(comics)" title="Tales from the Crypt (comics)">Tales from the Crypt</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Two-Fisted_Tales" title="Two-Fisted Tales">Two-Fisted Tales</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Vault_of_Horror_(comics)" title="The Vault of Horror (comics)">The Vault of Horror</a></i>, <i>Extra!</i>, <i>Impact</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Piracy_(comics)" title="Piracy (comics)">Piracy</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Weird_Fantasy" title="Weird Fantasy">Weird Fantasy</a></i> and its sequel series, <i>Weird Science-Fantasy</i>. </p><p>Following the demise of EC in the wake of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Subcommittee_on_Juvenile_Delinquency" title="United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency">1954 U.S. Senate hearings on juvenile delinquency</a> and a wave of anti-comics sentiment,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reed freelanced for <a href="/wiki/Atlas_Comics_(1950s)" title="Atlas Comics (1950s)">Atlas Comics</a>, the 1950s iteration of <a href="/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel Comics</a>, as well as for the <a href="/wiki/Gilberton_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilberton Company">Gilberton Company</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Classics_Illustrated" title="Classics Illustrated">Classics Illustrated</a></i>. Crandall's work for <i>Classics Illustrated</i> consisted of joint projects with EC veteran <a href="/wiki/George_Evans_(cartoonist)" title="George Evans (cartoonist)">George Evans</a> on four titles: No. 18, <i>The Hunchback of Notre Dame</i> (Fall 1960); No. 23, <i>Oliver Twist</i> (Fall 1961); No. 68, <i>Julius Caesar</i> (1962); No. 168, <i>In Freedom's Cause</i> (completed 1962; published UK 1963; published US 1969).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1960, he went under contract<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> with the publisher of <i><a href="/wiki/Treasure_Chest_(comics)" title="Treasure Chest (comics)">Treasure Chest</a></i>, a comic book distributed exclusively through <a href="/wiki/Parochial_school" title="Parochial school">parochial schools</a>. Crandall illustrated many covers and countless stories for <i>Treasure Chest</i> through 1972. In 1964, he illustrated books by <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Rice_Burroughs" title="Edgar Rice Burroughs">Edgar Rice Burroughs</a> for <a href="/wiki/Canaveral_Press" title="Canaveral Press">Canaveral Press</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The following year, he began contributing to <a href="/wiki/Warren_Publishing" title="Warren Publishing">Warren Publishing</a>'s black-and-white <a href="/wiki/War-comics" class="mw-redirect" title="War-comics">war-comics</a> magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Blazing_Combat" title="Blazing Combat">Blazing Combat</a></i>, and soon went on to contribute to the company's line of black-and-white horror publications, including <i><a href="/wiki/Creepy_(magazine)" title="Creepy (magazine)">Creepy</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Eerie_(magazine)" title="Eerie (magazine)">Eerie</a></i>. In the mid-to-late 1960s, he illustrated <a href="/wiki/Superhero" title="Superhero">superhero</a>-<a href="/wiki/Espionage_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Espionage fiction">espionage</a> stories for <a href="/wiki/Tower_Comics" title="Tower Comics">Tower Comics</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-bails_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bails-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Space_opera" title="Space opera">space opera</a> <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> in <a href="/wiki/King_Features_Syndicate" title="King Features Syndicate">King Features Syndicate</a>'s King Comics comic-book version of the syndicate's long-running hero <a href="/wiki/Flash_Gordon" title="Flash Gordon">Flash Gordon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 1970, Crandall and <a href="/wiki/Buster_Crabbe" title="Buster Crabbe">Buster Crabbe</a> were guests at the <a href="/wiki/Multicon" class="mw-redirect" title="Multicon">Multicon</a>-70 convention in <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City" title="Oklahoma City">Oklahoma City</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Final_years">Final years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reed_Crandall&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Final years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Crandall, who had left New York City in the 1960s in order to care for his ailing mother in <a href="/wiki/Wichita,_Kansas" title="Wichita, Kansas">Wichita</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a>, had developed alcoholism.<sup id="cite_ref-stiles_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stiles-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-borth68_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-borth68-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Recovering by the time of his mother's death, he nonetheless suffered debilitated health and left art in 1974 to work as a night watchman and janitor for the <a href="/wiki/Pizza_Hut" title="Pizza Hut">Pizza Hut</a> general headquarters in Wichita.<sup id="cite_ref-stiles_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stiles-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After suffering a stroke that year, he spent his remaining life in a nursing home and died in 1982 of a heart attack.<sup id="cite_ref-stiles_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stiles-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of his last published stories, "This Graveyard Is Not Deserted", appeared in <i><a href="/wiki/Creepy_(magazine)" title="Creepy (magazine)">Creepy</a></i> #54 (July 1973).<sup id="cite_ref-stiles_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stiles-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Creepy</i> #58 contained "Soul and Shadow", possibly his last published comic book work.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reed_Crandall&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Crandall married artist Martha Hamilton, and they had two children.<sup id="cite_ref-borth67_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-borth67-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their daughter, artist Cathy Crandall, had three children. Their son, Navy veteran Reed L. "Spike" Crandall (Sept. 8, 1945-July 2, 2005), an artist who owned and operated Crandall's Creations (<a href="/wiki/Clarkesville,_Georgia" title="Clarkesville, Georgia">Clarkesville, Georgia</a>), had a daughter, Samantha Pledger, and three grandchildren.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_tributes">Awards and tributes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reed_Crandall&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Awards and tributes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Crandall was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Eisner_Award_winners#The_Will_Eisner_Award_Hall_of_Fame" title="List of Eisner Award winners">Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame</a> in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He is referenced in <a href="/wiki/Michael_Chabon" title="Michael Chabon">Michael Chabon</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a>-winning novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Amazing_Adventures_of_Kavalier_and_Clay" class="mw-redirect" title="The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay">The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay</a></i>. The fictional character Joe Kavalier refers to Crandall as the "top" comic-book artist of his era.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2023, Crandall was posthumously awarded the <a href="/wiki/Inkwell_Awards" title="Inkwell Awards">Inkwell Awards</a> SASRA (Stacey Aragon Special Recognition Award).<sup id="cite_ref-majorspoilers2023_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-majorspoilers2023-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-popculturepodium2023_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-popculturepodium2023-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fcn2023_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fcn2023-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reed_Crandall&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-ssdi-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ssdi_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ssdi/doc/ssdi/v1:112F2DC34724C228">Reed Crandall</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Social_Security_Death_Index" title="Social Security Death Index">Social Security Death Index</a>, via GenealogyBank.com; and via <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V3VM-Z68">FamilySearch.org</a>, citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing. Retrieved on 22 February 2013. Neither gives specific day of death. First cite <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130124125013/http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ssdi/doc/ssdi/v1:112F2DC34724C228">archived</a> from the original on 22 February 2013; second cite <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230929120224/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V3VM-Z68">archived</a> from the original on 22 February 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=25426437&PIpi=9811548">Reed Leonard Crandall gravestone</a> (photo) at FindAGrave.com. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120501010640/http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=25426437&PIpi=9811548">Archived</a> from the original on May 1, 2012.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-lambiek-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-lambiek_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lambiek_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lambiek_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/crandall.htm">"Reed Crandall"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Lambiek_Comiclopedia" class="mw-redirect" title="Lambiek Comiclopedia">Lambiek Comiclopedia</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 17,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Lambiek+Comiclopedia&rft.atitle=Reed+Crandall&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lambiek.net%2Fartists%2Fc%2Fcrandall.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReed+Crandall" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoot1933" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Root, Vincent C. (1933). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=RezNAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Rayburn+Crandall+of+Newton%22">"Exceptional Newton, Kan., Art Student Wins High Honors in National Art Department Contest"</a>. <i>The Santa Fe Magazine</i>. 28–29. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Santa+Fe+Magazine&rft.atitle=Exceptional+Newton%2C+Kan.%2C+Art+Student+Wins+High+Honors+in+National+Art+Department+Contest&rft.volume=28%E2%80%9329&rft.date=1933&rft.aulast=Root&rft.aufirst=Vincent+C.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DRezNAAAAMAAJ%26q%3D%2522Rayburn%2BCrandall%2Bof%2BNewton%2522&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReed+Crandall" class="Z3988"></span> Full article reprinted at <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJay2012" class="citation web cs1">Jay, Alex (February 20, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com/2012/02/creator-reed-crandall.html">"Creator: Reed Crandall"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Creator%3A+Reed+Crandall&rft.date=2012-02-20&rft.aulast=Jay&rft.aufirst=Alex&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Falphabettenthletter.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F02%2Fcreator-reed-crandall.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReed+Crandall" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-cooke65-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-cooke65_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cooke65_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCooke2005" class="citation book cs1">Cooke, Jon, ed. (2005). <i>The T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Companion</i>. <a href="/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina">Raleigh</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>: <a href="/wiki/TwoMorrows_Publishing" title="TwoMorrows Publishing">TwoMorrows Publishing</a>. p. 65. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-893905-43-8" title="Special:BookSources/1-893905-43-8"><bdi>1-893905-43-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+T.H.U.N.D.E.R.+Agents+Companion&rft.place=Raleigh%2C+North+Carolina&rft.pages=65&rft.pub=TwoMorrows+Publishing&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=1-893905-43-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReed+Crandall" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-stiles-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-stiles_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-stiles_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-stiles_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-stiles_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-stiles_6-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-stiles_6-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-stiles_6-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStilesn.d." class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Steve_Stiles" title="Steve Stiles">Stiles, Steve</a> (n.d.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stevestiles.com/reedc.htm">"A Look at EC Great Reed Crandall"</a>. SteveStiles.com. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050513050313/http://stevestiles.com/reedc.htm">Archived</a> from the original on May 13, 2005.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=A+Look+at+EC+Great+Reed+Crandall&rft.pub=SteveStiles.com&rft.aulast=Stiles&rft.aufirst=Steve&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stevestiles.com%2Freedc.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReed+Crandall" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Root, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=RezNAAAAMAAJ&q=scholarship">pp. 35, 58</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-borth66-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-borth66_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-borth66_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-borth66_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Interview with art-school classmate and lifelong friend Frank Borth, in Cooke, p. 66</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-borth67-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-borth67_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-borth67_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-borth67_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Borth, in Cooke, p. 67</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=1530"><i>Smash Comics</i> #24 (July 1941)</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Comics_Database" title="Grand Comics Database">Grand Comics Database</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=1350"><i>Fight Comics</i> #12 (April 1941)</a> at the Grand Comics Database.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=1361"><i>Captain America Comics</i> #2 (April 1941)</a> at the Grand Comics Database.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=1413"><i>Captain America Comics</i> #3 (May 1941)</a> at the Grand Comics Database.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hajdu, David. <i>The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-374-18767-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-374-18767-3">0-374-18767-3</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-374-18767-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-374-18767-5">978-0-374-18767-5</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jones, William B., Jr., <i>Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, Second Edition</i>(McFarland, 2011), pp. 320, 321, 326, 334.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bails-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-bails_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBailsWare" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Bails" title="Jerry Bails">Bails, Jerry</a>; Ware, Hames. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=CRANDALL%2c+REED">"Crandall, Reed"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 27,</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Crandall%2C+Reed&rft.pub=Who%27s+Who+of+American+Comic+Books+1928-1999&rft.aulast=Bails&rft.aufirst=Jerry&rft.au=Ware%2C+Hames&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bailsprojects.com%2Fbio.aspx%3FName%3DCRANDALL%252c%2BREED&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReed+Crandall" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBenton1989" class="citation book cs1">Benton, Mike (1989). <i>The Comic Book in America</i>. <a href="/wiki/Dallas,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Dallas, Texas">Dallas, Texas</a>: Taylor Publishing. pp. 68, 129. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87833-659-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-87833-659-1"><bdi>0-87833-659-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Comic+Book+in+America&rft.place=Dallas%2C+Texas&rft.pages=68%2C+129&rft.pub=Taylor+Publishing&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=0-87833-659-1&rft.aulast=Benton&rft.aufirst=Mike&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReed+Crandall" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"Convention Features Old Films". <i><a href="/wiki/Amarillo_Globe-Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Amarillo Globe-Times">Amarillo Globe-Times</a></i>. June 16, 1970.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Amarillo+Globe-Times&rft.atitle=Convention+Features+Old+Films&rft.date=1970-06-16&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReed+Crandall" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-borth68-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-borth68_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Borth, in Cooke, p. 68</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1087295">"Creepy #58 pg 02 title splash, in kelly b's Reed Crandall Comic Art Gallery Room"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Creepy+%2358+pg+02+title+splash%2C+in+kelly+b%27s+Reed+Crandall+Comic+Art+Gallery+Room&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcomicartfans.com%2Fgallerypiece.asp%3Fpiece%3D1087295&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReed+Crandall" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.gainesvilletimes.com/news/stories/20050704/obituaries/119195.shtml"><i>The Times</i>, Gainesville, Georgia. 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href="http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ssdi/doc/ssdi/v1:112F2DC34724C228">"Crandall, Reed"</a>, at the <a href="/wiki/Social_Security_Death_Index" title="Social Security Death Index">Social Security Death Index</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/no2011180877">Reed Crandall</a> at <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a>, with 24 library catalog records</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Berg_(cartoonist)" title="Dave Berg (cartoonist)">Dave Berg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sid_Check" title="Sid Check">Sid Check</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Colan" title="Gene Colan">Gene Colan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Craig" title="Johnny Craig">Johnny Craig</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Reed Crandall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Davis_(cartoonist)" title="Jack Davis (cartoonist)">Jack Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Will_Elder" title="Will Elder">Will Elder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ric_Estrada" title="Ric Estrada">Ric Estrada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Evans_(cartoonist)" title="George Evans (cartoonist)">George Evans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Feldstein" title="Al Feldstein">Al Feldstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Frazetta" title="Frank Frazetta">Frank Frazetta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Harrison_(writer)" title="Harry Harrison 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