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1 | He has granted only one interview in his entire career and there is only one picture of him in existence. |
2 | Did not start writing and publishing comics until he was fifty-years old. |
3 | Trained as an actor at the Pasadena Playhouse on a two-year scholarship. |
4 | Described his first wife Lola as "Instrumental" in his salvation. |
5 | His work is banned in Singapore. |
6 | Published His first tract in 1960. |
7 | His tract "Lisa" dealing with the subject of Child Molestation was so controversial that it has been pulled from production and is no longer posted on his website. |
8 | His "fire and brimstone" style of evangelism, combined with his "EC Horror Comics" artwork, has been the source of much parody in the independent press and Punk Rock community. |
9 | He is something of a recluse, and avoids publicity for himself. One man who has met him in person, Christian film director Dwayne Walker, described him as "a little bald man who looks exactly like Slim Pickens's character in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)". |
10 | Before becoming an Evangelical writer, artist and publisher, he worked as a technical illustrator for AstroScience Inc., a defense contractor in Los Angeles, California. |
11 | According to reports, his publishing company, Chick Publications, has produced over 750,000,000 religious comic book tracts in over 100 languages. |
12 | Served in the U.S. Marines during WW2. |
13 | Author and publisher of hundreds of Christian religious tracts, which have been criticized as being vitriolically anti-Catholic. |