Editing Joe Kubert (section)

===Early career===
Kubert's first known professional job was penciling and inking the six-page story "Black-Out", starring the character Volton,<ref>{{Gcdb issue|id=2053|title=Cat-Man Comics #v2#13}}</ref> in [[Holyoke Publishing]]'s ''[[Cat-Man and Kitten|Catman Comics]]'' #8 (March 1942; also listed as vol. 2, #13). He would continue drawing the feature for the next three issues, and was soon doing similar work for [[Fox Feature Syndicate|Fox Comics]]' ''[[Blue Beetle]]''.<ref name=gcd>{{gcdb|type=credit|search=Joe+Kubert}}</ref> Branching into additional art skills, he began [[colorist|coloring]] the [[Quality Comics]] reprints of future industry legend [[Will Eisner]]'s ''[[Spirit (comics character)|The Spirit]]'', a seven-page comics feature that originally ran as part of a newspaper [[Sunday comics|Sunday supplement]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joe-kubert-prolific-comic-book-artist-whose-work-captured-the-chaotic-dirty-business-of-war-8061279.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220609/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joe-kubert-prolific-comic-book-artist-whose-work-captured-the-chaotic-dirty-business-of-war-8061279.html |archive-date=2022-06-09 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary - Joe Kubert: Prolific comic-book artist whose work captured the chaotic, dirty business of war|last=Carlson|first=Michael|date=2012-08-20|website=The Independent|access-date=2019-09-13}}</ref>