tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2722871372315918584.post5674364055142753536..comments2020-06-08T08:32:12.122-04:00Comments on A History of Comics: Renaldo C. Epworth, comic book agentSangorShophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17650888644317638942noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2722871372315918584.post-89364801796983140902016-07-25T10:25:07.028-04:002016-07-25T10:25:07.028-04:00This snapshot of Renaldo Epworth’s life was captu...This snapshot of Renaldo Epworth’s life was captured by the 1940 U.S. Census: Renaldo Epworth was born in New York about 1898. On April 1, 1940, he was 42 years old and lived at 285 Parker Avenue, Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey with his wife, Elizabeth, 40 years old; daughter Dorothy, 12 years old; and son Roger, 12 years old.<br /><br />In 1949 Wally Wood connected with an art agent named Renaldo Epworth, who supplied art to Fox Publications. Epworth would pay cash money for completed pages, but only at about half the rate Fox paid him. Apparently Epworth, as an agent, had a better chance of getting money out of Victor Fox than did the artists themselves. Since Fox’s rate was only $5 a page, Wood<br />pocketed only $2.50 a page when he sold art to Epworth. Out of that he had to pay anyone who had assisted him. This seems pretty minimal until you realize that, at the time, Wood shared an apartment with another artist for $3 a week. By this stage Wood had already worked with several other artists and assistants, including Marty Rosenthal, Moe Marcus, Ernie Bache, Jerry Kolden,<br />and Harry Harrison. ~Roger Hill, Alter Ego #8, Spring 2001 <br /> <br /><br />Renaldo Epworth was a letterer who became an agent. He was a WASP, by the way, in spite of the name. He was a very good letterer who was a half-@$$ed agent. ~Lou Cameron, Alter Ego #79, July 2008 <br /><br />Per SSDI, EPWORTH, RENALDO was born 13 April 1897; received Social Security number 100-xx-1536, which corresponds to New York; and died 17 June 1989.<br /><br />Jake OsterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com