Bernard Baily was born Bernard Bailynson on April 5, 1916 in the Bronx, NYC. He graduated high school in 1935 and attended Columbia University from 1936 to 1936. He began his cartoonist career in 1936 working at the Eisner-Iger Comic Shop, where he contributed to Wow! What a Magazine! In 1938 he created a popular syndicated newspaper comic strip "Gilda Gay,"which ran until 1958. In 1938 he drew "Tex Thompson" and "The Fat Man" for National Comics. In 1939 he married Regina Rachinsky and moved to the Bronx, where they raised two sons Stephen (b.1941) and Eugene (b.1943). In 1943 he opened Baily Art Publishing Company, also known as the Baily Shop, at 276 West 43rd Street in NYC, where his staff produced the writing, the artwork, the lay-out composition, and the engraved printing plates for his own comic books Slapstick Comics, Tally-Ho Comics, Spook Comics, Cisco Kid Comics, Man in Black, and Bogey Man. The Baily Shop also provided finished content for other publishing companies such as R. B. Leffingwell, Rural Home (Baird), Novack, Croydon, and Cambridge House. From 1944 to 1945 Bernard Baily drewthe syndicated comic strip "Vic Jordan." In 1946 he closed his comic shop and moved on to different magazine publishing projects when he opened Premium Color Press in Hicksville, NY. From 1949 to 1950 he produced the syndicated strip "Stories of the Opera." Bernard Baily remained in the publishing business until his death at age 79 on January 19, 1996.
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BAILY SHOP ARTISTS from 1943 to 1945
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1943
Bernard Baily
Maurice Del Bourgo
Marvin Levy
Irv Tirman
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1944
Bernard Baily
Frank Frazetta
John Giunta
Howard Ferguson (lettering)
August Froehlich
Paul Gattuso
Marvin Levy
Frank Little
Mac Raboy
Irv Tirman
Charles Voight
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1945
Nina Albright
Jack Alderman
Bernard Baily
Milton Cohen
Sam Cooper
August Froehlich
Paul Gattuso
Bill Henning
A.C. Hollingsworth
Marvin Levy
Frank Little
Munson Paddock
Howard Post
Al Pross
Mac Raboy (likely business partner)
Harold Sherman
Manny Stallman
Charles Voight
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1946
Nina Albright
Bernard Baily
Dan Barry
August Froehlich
Burt Frohman
Bill Henning
Gil Kane
Marvin Levy
Howard Post
Harold Sherman
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