Comic book artist Jim Mooney died after an extended illness on 30 March 2008 at the age of 89. Born in 1919, his first comics assignment was “The Moth” in Fox Publications’ Mystery Men Comics #9-12 (April-July 1940).
He met Stan Lee for the first time working at Timely Comics, where Mooney did his first funny animal work. In the early years of the Golden Age, he worked as a freelancer for many of the early comic book publishers (including Fox Features, Ace Comics, Quality Comics, Timely Comics, Fiction House, and the Eisner-Iger Shop). In 1946, he joined DC Comics, where he stayed for the next 22 years. He left DC when they changed their style and no longer had any work for him, but while he was there, he worked on Superboy, Supergirl, Batman, and many others. After DC, he moved to Marvel, where he worked on Spider-Man. He has also done continuing work on Elvira for Claypool Comics and inked a retro Lady Supreme story for Awesome Entertainment.
Mooney worked steadily into the 1990s, including working on Anne Rice’s The Mummy for Millennium Publications. He also worked with the recently deceased Steve Gerber on Man-Thing and Omega the Unknown.