Reg Bunn

Reg Bunn (1905 to 1971) was a comics artist originally from Birmingham, best known for his work for IPC during the 1960s, though he actually entered the industry in 1949 after Amalgamated Press (the company which would become IPC) launched a nationwide search for new talent. He would go on to draw for The Comet, Sun, Thriller Comics and, most notably, Lion, for which he co-created The Spider with writer Ted Cowan. Bunn became an invalid after suffering a serious motor accident in 1944 and, after becoming joint winner of Amalgamated's 1949 competition to find the best artist currently working in the UK, spent the next twenty years by necessity working from a studio at his home. The isolation contributed to Bunn developing depression, and he died from complications after spending almost a year in Rubery mental hospital in 1971.