Benulis was born in 1928 in Brooklyn, New York. He married in 1959, and has three children and two grandchildren. Between 1952 and 1956 he drew 146 comic stories, mostly for
Atlas Comics, but also for
Fiction House, Lev Gleason, Simon and Kirby,
American Comics Group, Superior,
Prize and Premier Magazines. In 1952 he drew his only superhero stories, two Captain America tales in
Captain America Comics #76. Although most of the comic stories that he drew did not credit the writer, he illustrated many written by
Carl Wessler and several by
Stan Lee, Frank Kelly,
Hank Chapman and Burt Frohman. About a third of his stories were inked by
Jack Abel. He decided not to pursue his art further past the end of 1956 in order to provide for his family by working in the post office. Despite living with the after-effects of childhood
polio, he worked many years on foot as a letter carrier in the post office and retired from it around 1993. Sadly, he never drew any more after his short time in comics—a time in which he was able to work alongside others he admired like
Will Eisner and
Stan Lee. He illustrated a cover for an early science fiction book by Scientology founder
L. Ron Hubbard. ==Bibliography==