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Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.

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Gil Kane
Age: 73 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 6
Died: 2000
Died: January 31
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