Nina Albright was an American

United States

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 comic book artist during the Golden Age of Comic Books

Golden Age of Comic Books

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, one of the few woman working in that field during the period.

Albright got her start in the comics industry by answering a classified ad placed by packager Jerry Iger

Jerry Iger

Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger was an American cartoonist. With business partner Will Eisner he co-founder of Eisner & Iger, a comic book packager that produced comics on demand for new publishers during the late-1930s and 1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic...

. She worked in studios like Funnies Inc.

Funnies Inc.

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, L.B. Cole, and Bernard Baily

Bernard Baily

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 in the 1940s. While employed at Novelty Press

Novelty Press

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 in New York, she worked on such features as Young King Cole, Lem the Grem, Dr. Doom, Bull's Eye Bill, and The Cadet (mostly backup features in the Novelty titles 4 Most and Target Comics). She also worked on Fiction House

Fiction House

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 features, including Captain Terry Thunder, Hooks Devlin, Inspector Dayton and Senorita Rio. In 1945, she created Comandette, a heroine featured in Star Studded Comics

Star Studded Comics

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#1, published by Cambridge House Publishers.

At Holyoke Publications, she did her best-known work on Miss Victory

Miss Victory

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. She also worked for Aviation Press on their Black Venus, and illustrated romance

Romance comics

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 stories for Timely

Marvel Comics

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, such as Junior Miss. Up until the early 1950s, she worked for Archie Publications

Archie Comics

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, St. John Publications

St. John Publications

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, and Ziff-Davis.

Albright turned to illustrating after abandoning comics, and worked for magazines such as American Girl and the Polly French book series. She illustrated the 1961 Doubleday Signal paperback Bonnie, written by Lee Wyndham.