Biography
Emigrating to the United States from Manchester, England, when he was a boy, Elias studied art at the Cooper Union and the Art Students League. He started working in comics in 1943 at Fiction House, where his work included features like Captain Wings in Wing Comics, on which he succeeded Bob Lubbers, as well as the Western hero Firehair.
After leaving Fiction House in 1946, he worked for several different comics companies, including Timely Comics, Hillman and National/DC (where he worked on such characters as the Flash, Tommy Tomorrow and Black Canary).
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