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Title: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Electricmastro on March 04, 2021, 08:29:54 PM

Comic book artists active in and around the Golden Age that you’d like to familiarize yourself with more, either to potentially discover more interesting art that you previously didn’t know about, or out of curiosity in general. For me, one of those artists would have to be Dick Ryan, who drew various funny animal comics in the late 30s for companies like Centaur, and even drew for a newspaper comic called Animal Crackers at that time, but I don’t know much else about him or his other work.

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Yoc on March 05, 2021, 01:49:24 PM

Hi EM,
A great idea for a topic.  The one I'd like to know the most about is still Wonder Woman artist HG Peter.
And I understand Ken Quattro 'The Comics Detective' is working on just such a feature.  But I'm sure he's still busy with his 'Invisible Men' book on black artists of the golden age.

I recently watched a bio on Alex Toth that came as an extra with the Johnny Quest DVD set.  I learned a lot about him from it.

-yoc

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: The Ghost Man on March 06, 2021, 09:26:41 AM

For me I would have to say Lou Fine, he's my absolute favourite inspirational and aspirational illustrator outside of J.C. Leyendecker and Reed Crandall. There's such a dearth of expansive biographical information on Lou Fine out there and I'm always hoping that someone composes a book on his life as they've done with Joe Shuster, Reed Crandall and Jack Kirby recently. I just managed to secure a copy of the magazine AlterEgo issue 17 on eBay, and it had perhaps the most info I've seen so far.

Those who are Lou Fine fans and interested, can read a good portion of it here: https://issuu.com/twomorrows/docs/alter_ego__17/29 (https://issuu.com/twomorrows/docs/alter_ego__17/29)

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Electricmastro on March 06, 2021, 07:22:31 PM

Victoriano Martin (1927-?):

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://historiaspasado.blogspot.com/2008/01/vic-martinel-pionero-neoyorkino.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=MARTIN%2C+VIC

Robert Globerman (1929-2016):

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/robert-globerman-obituary?pid=182373546

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=GLOBERMAN%2C+BOB

Joseph Edmund Peckover (1896-1982):

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Peckover&prev=search&pto=aue

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=PECKOVER%2C+EDMUND

Rodney Thomson (1878-1941):

https://www.davidsongalleries.com/collections/rodney-thomson

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=THOMPSON%2C+RODNEY

Robert Edgar Lamme (1917-1998):

https://firefightingnews.com/firefighters-sudden-death-broke-family/

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=LAMME%2C+BOB

Lachlan MacLachlan Field (1913-2004):

https://www.nhpr.org/post/thanksgiving-tradition-snow-geese-migration-vermont#stream/0

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=FIELD%2C+LOCHLAN

Harvey Kenneth Fuller (1918-2017):

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theday/obituary.aspx?n=harvey-k-fuller&pid=187336369&fhid=6913

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=FULLER%2C+HARVEY

Robert A. Boyajian (1922-2012):

http://brascosonmemorialfuneralhome.frontrunnerpro.com/book-of-memories/1135902/Robert-A-Boyajian/obituary.php

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BOYAJIAN%2C+ROBERT

Craig Joseph Fox (1895-1965):

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189541845/craig-joseph-fox

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=FOX%2C+CRAIG

Grieg Hovsep Chapian (1913-1996):

https://fineart.ha.com/itm/paintings/grieg-hovsep-chapian-american-1913-1995-the-old-teacher-1932oil-on-masonite28-x-22-inches-711-x-559/a/5101-86253.s

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=CHAPIAN%2C+GRIEG

Stephen Bern Dahlman (1912-1958):

https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/psychiana/items/psychiana545.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=DAHLMAN%2C+STEVE

Kenneth Vernon Landau (1926-2012):

https://www.kennethlandau.com/

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=LANDAU%2C+KEN

Quote from: Yoc on March 05, 2021, 01:49:24 PM

Hi EM,
A great idea for a topic.  The one I'd like to know the most about is still Wonder Woman artist HG Peter.

-yoc

Rob Stolzer wrote a good article about him, which goes into his style and possible influences, including Nell Brinkley and Franklin Booth.

(https://inkslingers.ink/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Peter-HG-Judge-Seeing-America-First.jpg)https://inkslingers.ink/2020/08/25/h-g-peter-from-judge-to-wonder/

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Electricmastro on March 06, 2021, 07:24:12 PM

Favorite Maurice Del Bourgo art that I've seen (Clue Comics #11, December 1946):

(https://i.imgur.com/FyyMPyD.jpg)Some info about the artist himself from The Detroit Jewish News (September 03, 1954), including how he went to schools in Japan, Belgium, France, and England:

(https://i.imgur.com/eNVT0ee.jpg)Source: https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1954.09.03.001/20

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: mopee167 on March 07, 2021, 09:43:47 AM

Harry G. Peter, Illustrator and First Wonder Woman Artist

https://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com/2017/09/comics-harry-g-peter-illustrator-and.html

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: mopee167 on March 07, 2021, 10:19:20 AM

It's Time For DC to Acknowledge HG Peter, Wonder Woman's Co-Creator
By Kieran Shiach. Published Sep 30, 2017

https://www.cbr.com/dc-comics-recognize-wonder-woman-co-creator-hg-peter/

https://www.cbr.com/dc-comics-recognize-wonder-woman-co-creator-hg-peter/2/

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Electricmastro on March 07, 2021, 09:48:16 PM

I was curious to research more about the artists for New Fun #1 (February, 1935) and here’s what I could find:

Lyman Anderson (aka Lyman Matthew Anderson, 1907-1993):

https://www.pulpartists.com/AL.html

Dick Loederer (aka Richard Alois Loederer, 1894-1981):

https://www.pelicanpub.com/products.php?cat=366

Charles Flanders (aka Charles Sommers Flanders, 1907-1973):

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Flanders&prev=search&pto=aue

John Lindermayer (aka John Edward Lindermayer, 1915-1972):

http://talkingducks.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-lindermayer.html

https://www.fold3.com/image/695517636?terms=john

Adolph Schus (1908-1957):

https://osucartoons.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/C3DB8A4B-0FC1-4FD4-98A1-625209484548

http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2008/01/professional-school-of-cartooning-1947.html

Lawrence Lariar (1908-1981):

https://prabook.com/web/lawrence.lariar/12990

Adolphe Barreaux (aka Adolphe Leslie de Griponne Barreaux, Jr., 1899-1985):

https://www.pulpartists.com/Barreaux.html

Henry Kiefer (aka Henry Carl Kiefer, 1890-1957):

https://www.pulpartists.com/Kiefer.html

Bert Salg (aka Bert Nelson Salg, 1881-1937):

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22597643/bert-n-salg

Clem Gretter (aka Joseph Clemens Gretter, 1904-1988):

https://www.pulpartists.com/Gretter.html

Jack Warren (aka Alonzo Vincent Warren, 1886-1955):

https://www.pulpartists.com/Warren.html

Joe Archibald (aka Joseph Stopford Archibald, 1898-1986):

https://www.pulpartists.com/Archibald.html

Bob Weinstein (could be maritime historian and book artist Robert Albert Weinstein, 1914-1995):

https://majormalcolmwheelernicholson.com/2020/12/21/new-fun-2-and-new-fun-3-85-years-of-dc-comics/

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sea_History/nHNWAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Robert+A.+Weinstein+1914+illustrator&dq=Robert+A.+Weinstein+1914+illustrator&printsec=frontcover

https://www.fold3.com/image/632415172?terms=weinstein,robert

Eugene Koscik - Could be cross-word puzzle maker Gene Koscik of Canada’s The Gazette:

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/419879626/

Tom McNamara (aka Thomas Joseph McNamara, 1886-1964):

http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2011/07/ink-slinger-profiles-tom-mcnamara.html

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: mopee167 on March 08, 2021, 07:31:02 AM

Cartoonist Charles Flanders (1907-1973) began his career as a commercial artist in Buffalo, NY. He moved to New York City in 1928 where he worked for an advertising agency and then as a magazine illustrator before being hired by King Features Syndicate in 1930. For King Features, Flanders worked on several preexisting strips including Tim Tyler's Luck and Bringing Up Father. In the mid-1930s he created comic adaptations of Ivanhoe and Treasure Island for Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's New Fun Comics as well as an original strip, Sandra of the Secret Service.

The last work that he did in his own style was a 1935 Sunday strip, Robin Hood. Following that, he and other King Features artists were encouraged to adopt the style of Alex Raymond, whose Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim, and Secret Agent X-9 were very popular. Flanders' emulation was good enough that he eventually was given responsibility for the X-9 strip (1935), followed by King of the Royal Mounted (1936) and The Lone Ranger (1939). Flanders drew the Lone Ranger until 1971, though in his later years he had increasing difficulty and Tom Gill, the artist for the comic book version, often filled in.

https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/print/flanders_c_prt.htm

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Yoc on March 08, 2021, 08:00:03 AM

Thanks for all the cool links guys!
Lots for me to check out.  :)

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Electricmastro on March 08, 2021, 01:10:54 PM

Quote from: Yoc on March 08, 2021, 08:00:03 AM

Thanks for all the cool links guys!
Lots for me to check out.  :)

You’re welcome Yoc!

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Electricmastro on March 09, 2021, 12:52:58 PM

Lawrence Tyler Dresser (1888-1980):

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Tyler_Genealogy/mRjGDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22lawrence+tyler+dresser%22&pg=PA637&printsec=frontcover

http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=DRESSER%2c+LAWRENCE

John Cassone (1923-2008):

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailybreeze/obituary.aspx?n=john-cassone&pid=119727054

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=CASSONE%2C+JOHN

Otto Joseph William Eppers (1893-1955):

https://www.qcwa.org/w2ea-00012-sk.htm

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=EPPERS%2C+OTTO

Joseph John Cavallo (1922-2020):

https://usobit.com/obituaries-2020/06/joseph-cavallo-july-12-1922-june-2-2020-age-97/

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=CAVALLO%2C+JOEY

Ellis Eringer (1924-2008):

http://papadukeeringer.blogspot.com/

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=ERINGER%2C+ELLIS

Robert Fabian Butts (1919-2008):

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72983187/robert-fabian-butts

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BUTTS%2C+BOB

George Meyerriecks (1921-1992):

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/meyerriecks-george-the-main-event-oil-on-artists--107-c-gdaraynkku

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=MEYERIECKS%2C+G.

Robert Bruce Bugg (1920-1993):

http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2008/09/nearly-anonymous-robert-bugg.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BUGG%2C+BOB

Andrew August Bensen (1902-1976):

https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2012/02/andrew-bensen-1902.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BENSEN%2C+ANDREW

Franklin Newell Beaven (1906-1975):

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50748699/obituary-for-franklin-newell-beaven/

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BEAVEN%2C+FRANK

Arthur Ashod Pinajian (1914-1999):

http://www.pinajianart.com/largeformat/biography.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=PINAJIAN%2C+ART

John Ralph Hearne (1924-1985):

http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2008/01/textbook-example-jack-hearne.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=HEARNE%2C+JACK

Herbert Tauss (1929-2001):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Tauss

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=TAUSS%2C+HERB

August Maria Froehlich (1880-1952):

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/froehlich_august.htm

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=FROEHLICH%2C+AUGUST

Philip Willis Hustis (1916-1991):

https://www.askart.com/artist/Phillip_Hustis/11330477/Phillip_Hustis.aspx

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=HUSTIS%2C+PHIL

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Electricmastro on March 11, 2021, 12:51:50 AM

Maurice Kashuba (1917-1973):

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/103848598/

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=KASHUBA%2C+MAURICE

Frederick Strothmann (1872-1958):

https://art.famsf.org/frederick-strothmann

http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=STROTHMAN

Sylvester Joseph Sowinski (1923-1986):

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/posse-416867632

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=SOWINSKI%2C+SYL

Milton Hammer (1914-1993):

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/144924332/

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=HAMMER%2C+MILT

William Michael Newton (1924-2014):

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/chicagotribune/name/william-newton-obituary?pid=173930658

http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=NEWTON%2c+BILL

Harold Ellsworth Lockwood (1918-2017):

https://www.hotspringsfh.com/obituaries/Harold-Lockwood/#!/Obituary

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=LOCKWOOD%2C+HAL

Arthur Meredith Gates (1916-1976):

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/07/archives/arthur-m-gates-60-cartoonist-drawings-ran-in-280-newspapers.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=GATES%2C+ART

Howard Paul Wyrauch (1919-2008):

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/archives/howard-wyrauch/article_96637442-dc72-5067-a53f-19d3f2ae0637.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=TRUETT%2C+W.

Kosti Selim Ruohomaa (1913-1961):

https://knox.villagesoup.com/p/ruohomaa-exhibit-at-finnish-house/1197900

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=RUOHOMAA%2c+KOSTI

William Alan Discount (1929-2007):

https://www.artmajeur.com/en/billdisc/presentation

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=DISCOUNT%2C+BILL

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Yoc on March 11, 2021, 08:46:12 PM

Wow!
That's a list and a half.  Thanks EM.
:)

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Electricmastro on March 12, 2021, 02:05:41 PM

Quote from: Yoc on March 11, 2021, 08:46:12 PM

Wow!
That's a list and a half.  Thanks EM.
:)

You’re welcome Yoc!

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: mopee167 on June 13, 2021, 12:02:38 PM

I’ve been reading thru some Iron Skull stories in Amazing Man Comics. Sam Gilman used the names of fellow Golden Age artist Nick Zuraw for the villain in Amazing Man # 14 (Jul 1940). And Al Avison was the name of the villain in Amazing Man #’s 16–18 (#16 (Oct 1940–Dec 1940).

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: fizersur on October 21, 2021, 04:06:46 AM

I was curious to research more about the artists for New Fun

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: mopee167 on November 06, 2021, 08:57:51 AM

Tony Isabella did a read-thru of FAMOUS FIRST EDITION: NEW FUN #1 back in 2020:

https://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2020/07/famous-first-edition-new-fun-1.html

https://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2020/07/more-new-fun-1.html

https://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2020/09/even-more-new-fun-1.html

https://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2020/09/previously-in-tony-isabellas-bloggy.html

The four installments include a bit of info on the artists.

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Defiant1 on November 06, 2021, 01:19:32 PM

Quote from: mopee167 on November 06, 2021, 08:57:51 AM

Tony Isabella did a read-thru of FAMOUS FIRST EDITION: NEW FUN #1 back in 2020:

https://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2020/07/famous-first-edition-new-fun-1.html

https://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2020/07/more-new-fun-1.html

https://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2020/09/even-more-new-fun-1.html

https://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2020/09/previously-in-tony-isabellas-bloggy.html

The four installments include a bit of info on the artists.

Interesting. I actually bought that and I don't buy many new products.

(https://i.postimg.cc/0ykK3mMZ/001-FFE-New-Fun-1000px-cr.png)

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Yoc on November 06, 2021, 07:19:45 PM

Thanks for the links mopee!

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: TheCosmicMoth on November 09, 2021, 02:48:56 PM

Fletcher Hanks and Charles Quinlan.

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Yoc on November 10, 2021, 07:41:12 AM

Oh, good choices. 
There's info on Hanks in the two collections of his work made by Paul Karasik.

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: TheCosmicMoth on November 10, 2021, 08:58:13 PM

Quote from: Yoc on November 10, 2021, 07:41:12 AM

Oh, good choices. 
There's info on Hanks in the two collections of his work made by Paul Karasik.

Thanks for the info, Yoc!

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Yoc on November 11, 2021, 07:34:23 AM

No problem.
Hanks was a real s.o.b. from what is said by his son.

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: mopee167 on January 22, 2022, 02:57:37 PM

Sam Gilman (05 Feb 1915–03 Dec 1985)

Before WWII Sam Gilman was a graduate of Pratt Institute majoring in Fine Art with a minor in Theater. He worked as an Artist, Inker, and Penciller during the Comics Golden Age. He was a Penciller for the premiere issue of Marvel Comics #1 (Oct 1939). Other titles he worked on were: Amazing Man, Masked Marvel, Super Spy, Vapo-Man, and Iron Skull. He set aside his art career to fight in the European theatre during WWII as an army staff sergeant in the camouflage core, Northern France Campaign. After returning from the war he returned to start his acting career in NY theater where he met Marlon Brando and Wally Cox. Sam was the elder more established actor when they met and they became fast friends for life. Marlon convinced Sam to move to Hollywood, before Wally, and had a non-credited role in The Men. –IMDb Mini Biography by Michael Gregor Gilman, adopted son of Sam Gilman & Lisbeth Hush

More info here: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92075157/sam-gilman

Note: The part where it says (their union produced two children) is likely incorrect.

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: gintibande on April 29, 2022, 08:31:23 AM

Cartoonist Charles Flanders (1907-1973) began his career as a commercial artist in Buffalo, NY. He moved to New York City in 1928 where he worked for an advertising agency and then as a magazine illustrator before being hired by King Features Syndicate in 1930. For King Features, Flanders worked on several preexisting strips including Tim Tyler's Luck and Bringing Up Father. In the mid-1930s he created comic adaptations of Ivanhoe and Treasure Island for Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's New Fun Comics as well as an original strip, Sandra of the Secret Service.
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Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: Yoc on April 29, 2022, 11:06:27 AM

Thanks for the bios guys!

Title: Re: Golden Age artists you’d like to know more about.
Post by: mopee167 on May 01, 2022, 08:54:10 AM

Here’s what I have been able to glean about CHARLES M. QUINLAN SR.

Charles Quinlan in the 1940 Census. First Name: Charles. Last Name: Quinlan. Age at Time of Census: 59. Gender: Male. Race: White. Ethnicity: American. Est. Birth Year: 1881. Birth Location: New York. Enumeration District: 36-30. Residence: Highlands Town, Orange, NY. Relationship to Head of Household: Head. Other People in Household: Marion Quinlan, 34 yrs, Female; Charles Quinlan, 11 yrs, Male; Diana Quinlan, 1 yrs, Female. Marital Status: Married. Language: English. Genealogical Society Number: 005458680. NARA Publication Number: T627. NARA Microfilm Roll Number: 2708. Line Number: 23. Sheet: A. Sheet Number: 9. Collection: 1940 U.S. Federal Population Census. –Ancestry.com, Aug 01, 2015

Charles Quinlan was Worth Carnahan's business partner in Bilbara, Worth and Hit Publishing (there's an interview with Carnahan's daughter [Cynthia Woody] in an issue of Comic Book Marketplace [#71, Sep 1999] somewhere that covers this). After the titles published by those three companies ended, Quinlan moved over to Helnit, and eventually took over as art director there. –fox_centaur, Apr 07, 2010 @ 12:47:45 PM, The Digital Comic Museum Forum

Charles M. Quinlan was active in the comics field during the 1940s and 1950s. He drew “Cat-Man and Kitten” for Helnit Publishing Company (1941-1944). He also drew Lone Eagle for Better Publications (1944-1947), Hopalong Cassidy for Fawcett (1948-1949), Two-Gun Lil and romance stories for Quality (1950-1951).

Charles M. Quinlan’s art is pretty good and he even puts himself in one of the stories (Cat-Man #15, Page 3, Panel 4). Super-heroes don’t always need to be deadly serious to entertain. –Crimson-Blu-Green, Jul 22, 2016 @ 09:26:00 PM, Digital Comic Museum Forum

QUINLAN, CHARLES was born 01 November 1880, received Social Security number XX-XX-XXXX (indicating Railroad Board) and, Death Master File says, died January 1966 (age 85). –SortedByName.com, 01 Mar 2014

Note: SSNs between 700-##-#### and 728-##-#### were issued to a railroad worker (no longer issued). Within the 700-01-xxxx to 728-26-xxxx range, the 4th and 5th digits indicate when a number was issued (700-09-#### issued between 1936 and 1950). –Railroad Board SSNs issued in 1936, https://www.ssn-verify.com/lookup/railroad-board, Dec 07, 2021