Marie Severin

Cover Artist, Colorist and Author

Updated: November 21st, 2022

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Born:

August 21st, 1929, East Rockaway, New York

Died:

August 29th, 2018

More about:

Marie Severin

Awards:

1974 Shazam Award: Best Penciller (Humor Division)

Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame, 2001

Contributions by Marie Severin

USA • MAD Magazine (New York)

MAD Magazine #1October 1952

Cover Artist (with Harvey Kurtzman)
Front Cover (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Hoohah! (Colorist with Jack Davis, Harvey Kurtzman)
Blobs! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood)
E.C. Fans! (Colorist)
Enter Cosmo McMoon! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Crow Vadis? (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Ganefs! (Colorist with Bill Elder, Harvey Kurtzman)
Varmint! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, John P. Severin)

MAD Magazine #2December 1952

Cover Artist (with Jack Davis)
Front Cover (Colorist with Jack Davis)
Hex! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis)
Melvin! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, John P. Severin)
E.C. Fans! (Colorist)
Lady-In-Mascara (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Calling Cosmo McMoon! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Gookum! (Colorist with Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman)
Mole! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Elder)

MAD Magazine #3January 1953

Colorist
Cover: Vampire in the Cemetery (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Dragged Net! (Colorist with Bill Elder, Harvey Kurtzman)
Sheik of Araby! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, John P. Severin)
E.C. Fans! (Colorist with Wally Wood)
Rookie Gladiator (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
The Dandelion Caper (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
V-Vampires! (Colorist with Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman)
Lone Stranger! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis)

MAD Magazine #4January 1953

Cover Artist (with Harvey Kurtzman)
Front Cover (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Superduperman! (Colorist with Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman)
Flob Was A Slob! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis)
We at E.C. Are Proudest of Our Science-Fiction Magazines! (Colorist with Alfonso "Al" Williamson, Al Feldstein)
The Parole (Colorist with Jerry DeFuccio, Harvey Kurtzman)
Let's Deplore Your Mind (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Robin Hood! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, John P. Severin)
Shadow! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Elder)

MAD Magazine #5June 1953

Cover Artist (with Bill Elder)
Cover: Kane Keen (Colorist with Bill Elder)
Outer Sanctum! (Colorist with Bill Elder, Harvey Kurtzman)
Black And Blue Hawks! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood)
We At E.C. Are Proudest of Our Science-Fiction Magazines (Colorist)
Exam (Colorist with Jerry DeFuccio)
MAD Mumblings (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Miltie of The Mounties! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, John P. Severin)
Kane Keen! Private Eye (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis)

MAD Magazine #6August 1953

Cover Artist (with Harvey Kurtzman)
Front Cover (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Teddy And The Pirates! (Colorist with Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman)
Melvin of The Apes! (Colorist with John P. Severin, Harvey Kurtzman)
We At E.C. Are Proudest of Our Science-Fiction Magazines! (Colorist)
Hevo The Great (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman
Casey At The Bat! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Jack Davis)
Ping Pong! (Colorist with Bill Elder, Harvey Kurtzman)

MAD Magazine #7September 1953

Cover Artist (with Harvey Kurtzman)
Cover: Shermlock Shomes (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Shermlock Shomes! (Colorist with Bill Elder, Harvey Kurtzman)
Treasure Island! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, John P. Severin)
We At E.C. Are Proudest of Our Science-Fiction Magazines (Colorist with Alfonso "Al" Williamson, Frank Frazetta)
Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman
Smilin' Melvin! (Colorist with Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman)

MAD Magazine #8December 1953

Colorist
Front Cover (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Frank N. Stein! (Colorist with Bill Elder, Harvey Kurtzman)
Lone Stranger Rides Again! (Colorist with Jack Davis, Harvey Kurtzman)
We at E.C. are Proudest of Our Science-Fiction Magazines! (Colorist with Joseph "Joe" Orlando)
Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman
Bat Boy and Rubin! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood)

MAD Magazine #9February 1954

Colorist
Front Cover (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Little Orphan Melvin! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood)
The Raven (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Edgar Allan Poe, Bill Elder)
Yep Kiddies! E.C.'s New Humor Mag, Panic, Is On Sale (Colorist with Jack Davis)
Bop Jokes! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, John P. Severin)
Hah! Noon! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis)

MAD Magazine #10April 1954

Colorist
Cover: The Face Upon The Floor (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
G.I. Shmoe! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood)
Sane! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, John P. Severin)
You, Too, Can Meet New Friends! (Colorist with Wally Wood)
The Face Upon the Floor! (Colorist with H. Antoine D'Arcy, Harvey Kurtzman, Basil Wolverton, Jack Davis)
Woman Wonder! (Colorist with Bill Elder, Harvey Kurtzman)

MAD Magazine #11May 1954

Flesh Garden! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood)
MAD Reader! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Basil Wolverton)
I Dreamed I Went to a Fraternity Smoker in My Panic Magazine! (Colorist with Jack Davis)
Murder the Husband! (Colorist with Al Feldstein, Jack Davis, William Gaines)
Murder the Story! (Colorist with Jack Davis, Harvey Kurtzman)
Beware of Imitations! (Colorist with Jack Davis)
Dragged Net! (Colorist with Bill Elder, Harvey Kurtzman)

MAD Magazine #12June 1954

Starchie (Colorist with Bill Elder, Harvey Kurtzman)
From Eternity Back to Here! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Bernard Krigstein)
Do People Laugh at You for Reading Comic Books? (Colorist with Jack Davis)
3-Dimensions! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood)
Mark Trade! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis)

MAD Magazine #13July 1954

Cover: This Cover... MAD's Answer to Comic Book Titles... The Cover with the Smallest Title in the World! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Prince Violent! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood)
Book! Movie! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis)
You, Too, Can Meet New Friends! (Colorist with Wally Wood)
Robinson Crusoe! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Elder)

MAD Magazine #14

Manduck the Magician (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Elder)
Movie...Ads! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood)
You, Too, Can Meet New Friends! (Colorist with Wally Wood)
The Countynental! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis)
Plastic Sam! (Colorist with Russ Heath, Harvey Kurtzman)

MAD Magazine #15September 1954

Pot-Shot Pete Sheriff of Yucca-pucca Gulch! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Now...If You Join...You Get the Bulletin...Free! (Colorist with Jack Davis)
Wild 1/2 (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood)
Captain Tvideo! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis)

MAD Magazine #16

Shermlock Shomes in the Hound of The Basketballs! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Elder)
Newspapers! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis)
E. C. Went To Sea In Search Of Another New Trend... (Colorist with Wally Wood)
Restaurant! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Elder)

MAD Magazine #17November 1954

Bringing Back Father! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Bernard Krigstein, Bill Elder)
E. C. Went To Sea In Search Of Another New Trend... (Colorist with Wally Wood)
Meet Miss Potgold (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Basil Wolverton)
Julius Caesar! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood)

MAD Magazine #18December 1954

Cover: Look Gang! Another Surprise! In This Issue...YOU Draw The Cover! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Alice In Wonderland! (Colorist with Lewis Caroll, Harvey Kurtzman, John Tenniel, Jack Davis)
E. C. Went To Sea In Search Of Another New Trend... (Colorist)
Pot-Shot Pete... (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman)
Stalag 18! (Colorist with Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood)