Wallace A. Wood landed his first comic work with Will Eisner as a back-up artist on The Spirit in 1948. He also began lettering for Fox Features Syndicate, then drew stories for their love and western titles. Over the next few years he worked for Avon, Better-Standard, EC, Fawcett, Fox, Kirby Publishing Co., Youthful Magazines and Ziff-Davis.

After trying multiple genres with EC, he soon found his niche in science fiction.

His work on EC’s Weird Fantasy and Weird Science followed covers on Avon’s Attack On Planet Mars, Flying Saucers, Earth Man on Venus, Space Detective and Strange Worlds. No one could draw spaceship interior instrumentation and machinery like him.

He became the first Marvel Comics artist to get a cover blurb when Stan Lee touted Wood’s arrival on Daredevil #5.

In the years that followed, he continued to produce beautiful work for DC, Charlton, Gold Key, Harvey, Tower (where he launched the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents), Warren and Atlas-Seaboard, as well as a number of self-published projects.

Wood took his own life in 1981, but he left a legacy of not only his art, but also the artists who he and his work influenced.