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Howard Purcell (November 10 1918 – April 24 1981) was an American comic-book artist and writer active from the 1940s Golden Age of comics through the 1960s Silver Age. A longtime penciler and cover artist for DC Comics one of the field’s two largest firms he co-created the Golden Age characters Sargon the Sorcerer and the Gay Ghost (renamed in the 1970s the Grim Ghost) for All-American Publications one of the companies with National Comics and Detective Comics that merged to form DC.