Sam Glankoff

Sam Glankoff (October 30, 1894 – April 13, 1982) was an American artist whose career spanned Abstract Expressionist painting, woodcut printmaking, and a decade of commercial comics work. Born in New York City, he brought a fine-art sensibility to the comic-book page during the industry’s wartime and postwar boom. From 1943 to 1953, Glankoff contributed as an artist and inker on 23 issues, most notably for *Calling All Girls*, *True Aviation Picture-Stories*, *Clothing for Courage*, *Dotty Dripple Comics*, *Fire Power*, and *Cookie*. His style—rooted in bold, graphic woodcut techniques—gave a distinctive, textured look to the adventure and humor stories he helped illustrate. He collaborated regularly with editors and writers at the Fiction House and other publishers, though specific co-creations are not widely documented. After leaving comics, Glankoff returned to fine art, developing a unique “paste-painting” method that blended abstraction with layered, tactile surfaces. His later work gained recognition in galleries, and he is remembered as a bridge between commercial illustration and mid-century modernism. Glankoff died in New York in 1982 at age 87, leaving a modest but distinctive legacy in both comics and abstract art.