Harry Lambert, 1916-2004

Lambert was the comic book artist who co-created the Golden Age Flash, or, as I knew him as a kid, the one with the winged colander on his head:

He mostly drew "funny" comics but as the industry turned towards superheroes, he did a few of them, too. The most notable came in 1940 when editor Sheldon Mayer at the All-American company (later absorbed by DC) was assembling a new book called Flash Comics. Mayer needed someone to draw the title character, a super-speedster devised by writer Gardner Fox. Lampert got the job but was not happy drawing in that style. Little suspecting it was the feature with which his name would be forever linked, he asked off after five stories and Mayer, who knew he had miscast Harry, happily replaced him.