Dave Berg was a cartoonist, illustrator, lecturer, writer, and editor with Marvel comics; Mad magazine. Collection consists of original art work, including nude renderings; sketches (some with text) and comic 'strip' panels; holograph and typescript writings (some short stories and musings); Mad magazine and Berg book publications; small number of Moshiach Times publications (with Berg contributions); binder like scrapbooks, and small amount of personal and professional photographs and ephemera.

Dave Berg was born June 12, 1920, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He attended Pratt Institute, New School for Social Research, Cooper Union, and Art Students League. In the early 1940s, he landed a job inking backgrounds of the newspaper comic feature The Spirit at the studio of Will Eisner. He moved on to writing and drawing the comic book series Death Patrol and Uncle Sam. During World War II, he was a member of the Army Air Corps and served as a war correspondent in Iwo Jima, Guam, Saipan and Japan. Following his service, he worked for Stan Lee at Timely Comics (originally Marvel Comics) and at Archie Comics. He began working for Mad as a freelancer in 1956, introducing The Lighter Side of... in 1961. He often incorporated friends, family members and Mad colleagues into his cartoons, and included himself into the strip as Roger Kaputnik, an Everyman with an always-present pipe. Over the years, he wrote and illustrated 17 books for Mad, including Mad's Dave Berg Looks at Living, Mad's Dave Berg Looks at Things, and Mad's Dave Berg Looks at the USA. Berg was heavily involved in the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in Westchester County, N.Y., and later served as president of B'nai B'rith in Marina del Rey. He also produced two humorous books on religion, My Friend God and Roger Kaputnik and God. Dave Berg died May 17, 2002, in Marina del Rey, California.

50.8 linear feet (19 unprocessed cartons, 32 unprocessed boxes, 4 unprocessed flat boxes, 15 unprocessed oversize flat boxes, 1 unprocessed long shoe box, 1 unprocessed plastic tub)

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