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In later years, he was a consultant for Marvel Comics and Computer Graphics Laboratories.

He started out in the mail room of the William Morris Agency in New York and eventually became a TV writer and producer. He also helped produce a Broadway adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's book "Winesburg, Ohio" in 1958.

He enlisted in the Army in 1943 and served in WWII as a medic. He was wounded during the Battle of the Bulge, and was awarded a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star and a Combat Medical Badge. After the war, he studied English literature at the University of Wisconsin, and received a bachelor's degree in 1948.

In the 1960s, he ran the motion picture and television division of King Features Syndicate.

His father was a coat manufacturer; his mother, a homemaker. He grew up in Washington Heights and Brooklyn.