Jack Kamen

Jack Kamen was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Art Students League and the Grand Central Art School, and got courses in sculpting from Agop Agopoff. He drew for Avon, Fiction House and Fox, and worked on 'Brenda Starr' in the late 1940's, before joining EC Comics in 1950. He was one of the company's most prolific horror artists, and was a frequent contributor to Tales from the Crypt, The Haunt of Fear and Shock SuspenStories, but also to Crime SuspenStories and the Weird Science/Fantasy books.

Kamen's violent stories mainly dealt with infidelity or the battle of the sexes. After the implementation of the Comics Code, he also drew for some of EC's "New Direction" and "Picto-Fiction" titles, but he steadily moved into advertising art and illustration in the mid-1950s. He did assignments from the largest corporations in the USA, but also worked with his son Dean Kamen in the medical supply and helicopter business.