In 1949, when "I think I just turned 17 or I was still 16 at the time, I don't remember," In that capacity, he said, he "colored not just interiors, but also every cover the rest of the decade" for Timely's successor,
Atlas Comics. As he recalled in the mid-2000s of the Atlas staff:
The Silver Age on the cover of
Strange Tales #89, colors by Goldberg Goldberg went freelance in 1958, and where one instructor was influential
Batman artist
Jerry Robinson. As Atlas segued into Marvel, Goldberg began freelance-coloring the company's comic books through the mid-1960s, working with such artists as
Steve Ditko and
Jack Kirby to create the color designs for such characters as
Spider-Man, the
Fantastic Four, the
Hulk and others during what historians call the
Silver Age of comic books. and for three years drew the
DC Comics teen titles
Date with Debbi,
Swing with Scooter and
Leave It to Binky. In 1994, Goldberg was chosen to pencil Archie Comics' portion of the
intercompany crossover Archie Meets the Punisher, a one-shot in which the gritty, homicidal Marvel vigilante finds himself pursuing an Archie Andrews look-alike into bucolic Riverdale. The following year, he drew the Archie gang for the cover of the
Long Island weekly newspaper ''
Dan's Papers''. He penciled a six-page Betty story, "I'll Take Manhattan", published August 17, 2003, in
The New York Times'
Fashion of the Times magazine supplement. Goldberg ended his nearly 40-year relationship with Archie with two three-part, alternate-future stories in
Archie #600-605 (Oct. 2009 - March 2010), "Archie Marries Veronica" and "Archie Marries Betty", followed by some additional, final work including two pages of a flashback sequence in the 25-page "Love Finds Archie Andrews: Archie Loves Betty" in the comics magazine
Life With Archie #1 (Sept. 2010), and the cover of, and an 11-page story in,
Tales from Riverdale Digest #39 (Oct. 2010). Goldberg's other late-career comics work includes issues of DC's
talking animal superhero series
Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew in the early 1980s, and the
Jewish-themed children's comic book
Mendy and the Golem in 2003. In the 2010s, he drew variant covers for Marvel's
FF #1 (May 2011) and
IDW Publishing's superhero-humor comic
Love and Capes: Ever After #5 (June 2011), as well as the Archie Comics parody story "Everything's Bartchie!" in
Bongo Comics'
Simpsons Comics #183 (Oct. 2011). That year he also drew an anti-bullying educational comic,
Rise Above, for the organization Rise Above Social Issues. In 2010, IDW released the 160-page hardcover collection
Archie: The Best of Stan Goldberg, with a new Goldberg cover.
Other work In addition to comic-book illustration and coloring, Goldberg drew gag cartoons for
men's magazines and did advertising art including a billboard for
No-Cal Soda. ==Awards and recognition==