Rudolph E. "Rudy" LapickSocial Security Death Index
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119-16-8993. Note: Gives date of death as February 28; however, a death notice ran online February 27 at Evanier, P.O.V. Online (see). (17 November 1926"United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J5ND-3ZJ : accessed 01 Mar 2013), Rudolph E Lapick, 28 February 2004. – 27 February 2004) was an American

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artist who worked as an

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for

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for many years. He was nominated for a Shazam Award in 1974 for Best Inker (humor).

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Rudy Lapick was born in

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, the son of Rudolph and Florence Lapick. He had a brother, John, and a sister, Gioia. After he married Mary Zema on May 30, 1948, the couple moved to nearby

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. They had a daughter, Lorraine and two sons, Rudy Jr. and John. Gives death date as Friday, February 27, 2004. Lapick became a staff

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, the 1940s forerunner of

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. In the 1950s, his work included issues of ''

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'' for Ziff-Davis Comics.Rudy LaPick
at the

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He was

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's primary inker for the majority of DeCarlo's career both at Timely and for decades at Archie. Lapick maintained a long friendship with fellow Timely/Atlas artist

Gene Colan Eugene Jules Colan (; September 1, 1926 – June 23, 2011)Eugene Colan
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, dating to their working together in the Timely art room starting in 1946. Almost five decades later, he inked some of Colan's late-career work at Archie Comics. He was living in Yonkers at the time of his death.

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