The Bait! (Combat #10, March 1953)
Albert "Al" Carreno was born in Mexico City. He attended the University of Mexico and moved to the United States in the mid-1920s. First working as a caricaturist on the Chicago Daily News, he later moved to New York. In 1935 he was asked to do a comic strip for an eight-page tabloid comic section. The result was a western, 'Ted Strong', but it was dropped after a few years.
Astonishing #34 (August 1954)
Then Al Carreno went on to comic book illustration, working variously at Fox, Fawcett, National, Prize, Marvel, Pines and Ziff Davis throughout the 1940's and 1950s. He worked on titles such as 'Ibis', 'Red Gaucho', 'Captain Marvel', and 'The Blue Beetle'. In the 1950s he also became active in the National Cartoonist Society and became NCS membership chairman. Carreno died in September 1964.
