Neville worked for
National Comics Publications (later known as
DC Comics) in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of
Joe Shuster's early assistants on the
Superman daily comic strip during that time, as well as on the detective series
Slam Bradley. Neville was the artist for the original versions of
Hawkman,
Hawkgirl, and
Hath-Set for DC Comics when they all first appeared in
Flash Comics #1 in 1940. Hawkman's first three adventures were drawn by Neville, modeled after the
Hawkmen characters from the
Flash Gordon comic strip by
Alex Raymond. Neville soon left
Hawkman, being replaced after three issues by
Sheldon Moldoff and then later by
Joe Kubert. (Kubert slightly redesigned Hawkman's mask in
Flash Comics #85 [July 1947] and then, one year later, replaced the winged-hawk-like mask to a much simpler yellow cowl in
Flash Comics #98 [Aug 1948].) After leaving
Hawkman, Neville returned to the
Superman comic. Most of his comics work was done in the period 1940–1946; he returned to the industry in c. 1977 when he worked on the ''
Rick O'Shay'' syndicated
Western comics strip. == References ==