Krupa, John S.
Designer. Born January 1913, in Poland, and in the same year came with his parents to U. S. First art work consisted of crude drawings at the age of three and a half and it was not until 1933, that he finally turned his full attention to his art. A correspondence course failed to teach him what he wanted, so became the pupil of a private teacher. In 1933 secured a newspaper job on a Polish publication doing rotogravure layouts and art lettering. It was then that Richard Arnold was first conceived. Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. in Chicago, engaged him after the contest, to draw pictures for phantastic and futuristic novels for the monthly paper: "Amazing Stories".From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943