Biography
Bair started his career in the early 1980s, pencilling a "Stormy Tempest" story in Star*Fems #2 for AC/Paragon Publications in 1982. In 1983, he began working for the leading American comic book publishers, DC and Marvel Comics. Bair's first work for "DC was the 'Huntress' backup in 'Wonder Woman' and then 'JSA Vs America,'" all of which work, he recalls, "was pencilling." He also produced a range of penciled & inked covers for the company over the following ten years; for Marvel he provided brief pencil work for Moon Knight, but focused on non-Marvel work until the mid- to late-1980s.
Between 1984 and 1985, Bair also produced work for Eclipse Comics, producing covers and interior pencils for Aztec Ace, pencils & inks for Crimson Dawn and backup features for Sabre.
For these few early years of his career, Bair says he "used my legal name which is Michael Hernandez. I chose to change to Bair because it's my mother's maiden name and you have to understand, there are a lot of Hernandez's in comics- I've even got chided over it . It was simple to go with Bair — there are no other Bairs in comics — though I did get a call from Mike Barr over it ."
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