Alexandre Dumas (24 July 1802 - 5 December 1870) was an eccentric
and wildly successful French writer. He is best known for his tales
of high adventure, such as "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of
Monte Cristo". He is one of the most widely read French authors in
the world. American illustrator and writer LOU CAMERON attended the
California School of Fine Arts. He was active as a comic book
artist in the 1950s. He was a versatile artist for Gilberton's
'Classics Illustrated' series. drawing comic adaptations of novels
by Herbert George Wells, Ann S. Stephans, Alexandre Dumas, Emile
Zola and Robert Louis Stevenson.
He was furthermore a contributor to the mystery titles published by
Atlas, including Astonishing Comics, Journey into Mystery, Uncanny
Tales and Journey Into Unknown Worlds. He illustrated stories in
the same genre for DC titles like House of Mystery, House of
Secrets and Tales of the Unexpected, as well as Ace Periodicals'
Baffling Mysteries, Web of Mystery and Hand of Fate. He
additionally did horror stories for St. John Publishing and romance
and western features for Story Comics. In 1951 and 1952 he did a
syndicated feature called 'So It Sesms'.
During the same period, Cameron was active as a pulp book
illustrator. From 1957 he focused on his work has a writer, which
he has done under his own name but also as Julie Cameron, Dagmar,
Mary Manning and Ramsay Thorne. Among his many (mainly suspense,
war and western) novels are 'Beyond the Scarlet Door', 'The
Amphorae Pirates', 'Belle of Fort Smith' and 'The Dirty War of Sgt.
Slade', as well as the 'Stringer' western series.
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