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He was an  American   comic book  artist who drew the costumed crime fighter  Phantom Lady , among many other characters. Active in the 1940's and 1950's  Golden Age of comic books , he is the first known  African-American  artist to find success in the comic-book industry. He also  penciled  an early form of  graphic novel ,  St. John Publications '  digest-sized  " picture novel "  It Rhymes with Lust  (1950). Baker was inducted into the  Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame  in 2009. Baker was born in  Forsyth County ,  North Carolina . At a young age he relocated with his family to  Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, and after graduating high school circa 1940, moved to  Washington, D.C. . Prevented by a heart condition from being drafted into the U.S. military in  World War II  era, he began studying art at  Cooper Union , in  New York ...

He was an  Afro-Russian   nobleman ,  military engineer  and  general . Kidnapped as a child and presented as a gift to  Peter the Great , he was raised in the Emperor's household, and eventually rose to become a prominent member of the imperial court in the reign of Peter's daughter  Elizabeth . He is the great-grandfather of the author and poet  Alexander Pushkin . The main reliable accounts of Gannibal's life come from  Peter the Great's Negro , Pushkin's unfinished biography of his great-grandfather, published after Pushkin's death in 1837. Scholars argue that Pushkin's account may be inaccurate due to the author’s desire to elevate the status of his ancestors and family. There are a number of contradictions between the biographies of Pushkin and the German novel,  The Blackamoor of Peter the Great . One such a historical biography by Gannibal's son-in-law Rotkirkh was largely responsible for the myth, propagated by som...