Early life and career Morris Weiss was born in 1915
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, He broke into the comics field in 1934 with brief stints as the
letterer for the comic strip
Minute Movies by
Ed Wheelan, and as an assistant on the
Joe Jinks comic strip; in the early 1940s,
United Features Syndicate hired him to draw
Joe Jinks. Between 1934 and 1936 he lettered for
Harold Knerr on the comic strip
The Katzenjammer Kids. Following his first stint with
Mickey Finn, Weiss transitioned to comic books. His earliest known credit there is as
penciler and inker of the six-page feature "Boxie Weaver" in
Holyoke Publications'
Blue Beetle #28-30 (Dec. 1943 - Feb. 1944) and
Sparkling Stars #9 (Feb. 1945), the last of which he signed with the
pseudonym Ink Higgins. Other early Weiss features for Holyoke include "Private Plopp" and "Petey and Pop". While in the army in 1944 and 1945, Weiss was the staff artist for the camp newspaper at
Fort Eustis in
Newport News,
Virginia, where he wrote and drew the comic panel
M.P. Muffit. writing and drawing the title character's stories in the career-gal humor comic
Tessie the Typist. He went on to do numerous stories featuring Tessie and her friend Skidsy, and created the teen-humor feature "Margie", Weiss wrote the dramatic continuity for
Joe Palooka from about 1962 to 1970, A collector of American illustration, he purchased a painting in 1947 from
Norman Rockwell for $150.
Later life In 1960, Weiss and his family moved to
North Miami, Florida. The couple had four children: daughter Wendy and sons Jacob, David and
Jerry Weiss, Weiss died at his home in
West Palm Beach, Florida, on May 18, 2014. ==References==