Ray Bailey started out working for the Fleischer studios in Manhattan, cooperating on animated cartoons of 'Betty Boop' and 'Popeye'. At the same time he made illustrations for several journals. In the late 1930s Bailey became the assistant of Gus Edson and later of Milton Caniff, whom he assisted on 'Terry and the Pirates' and 'Male Call'. In 1942 he started his first personal series, 'Vesta West', followed by 'Bruce Gentry' in 1945 and 'Space Cadet' in 1949. After Bruce Gentry he started 'Space Cadet Tom Corbett' in 1951, which lasted until 1953. He was also the author of several comic books of 'Steve Canyon' (he also did the daily comic) and 'The Gray Ghost', published in Dell Publishing's Four-Color collection.
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