The Beck-Costanza shop was a small operation that supported C.C. Beck’s work on Captain Marvel. Fawcett first arranged for Beck to supervise the production of their Captain Marvel comics as chief of an in-house art department with fifteen assistants. Pete Costanza was Beck’s primary assistant for many years and later partner in the shop. They worked out of the New York Times Square offices of Fawcett Publications in the Paramount Building at 1501 Broadway. In 1944 an off-site space was rented near Costanza's home in Englewood, New Jersey, while Beck remained in Manhattan. The new space was near the Binder Shop, so several Binder artists also worked at the Beck-Costanza Shop. They also produced the “Captain Tootsie” advertising strip for Tootsie Roll. The Beck-Costanza shop ended in 1953 when Fawcett lost a costly lawsuit on copyright infringement to D.C. Comics.
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BECK-COSTANZA ARTISTS from 1942 - 1946
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1942
Ken Bald
C.C. Beck
Pete Costanza
Ezra Jack Keats (backgrounds)
Al McLean
Ed Robbins (layouts)
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1943
C.C. Beck
Lee Eichler (inking)
Al McLean
Ed Robbins (layouts)
Richard Taylor (inking)
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1944
C.C. Beck
Pete Costanza
Ray Harford
George Marko
Ed Robbins (layout)
Gustav Schrotter
Irv Steinberg
Charles Tomsey
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1945
C.C. Beck
Jack Bowler
Pete Costanza
Bob Boyajian
Vince Costello
Vic Dowd
Al Fagaly
Ray Harford
Alex Kostuk
Ed Robbins (layout)
Gustav Schrotter
Irv Steinberg
Fran Taggart
Charles Tomsey
Ernest Townsend
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1946
C. C. Beck
Pete Costanza
Ray Harford
Ed Robbins (layout)
Kurt Schaffenberger
Gustav Schrotter
Irv Steinberg
Fran Taggart
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