Editing Jack Cole (artist) (section)

==Early life==
[[File:PoliceComics24.jpg|thumb|''Police Comics'' No. 24 (Nov. 1943). Cover art by Jack Cole]]
Born in [[New Castle, Pennsylvania|New Castle]], [[Pennsylvania]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lawrencecountymemoirs.com/lcmpages/811/artist-cartoonist-jack-cole-new-castle-pa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210023958/http://www.lawrencecountymemoirs.com/lcmpages/811/artist-cartoonist-jack-cole-new-castle-pa|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 10, 2013|title=Lawrence County Memoirs: Artist/Cartoonist Jack Cole - New Castle PA|website=www.lawrencecountymemoirs.com}}</ref> Cole—the third of six children of a [[dry goods]]-store owner and amateur-entertainer father and a former [[elementary school]]-teacher mother—was untrained in art except for the [[Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning]] [[correspondence course]]. At age 17, he bicycled solo cross-country to Los Angeles, California and back. Cole recounted this adventure in an early self-illustrated professional sale "A Boy and His Bike" (which has often been cited as appearing in ''[[Boys' Life]]'' magazine, but in fact the source of this article is unknown, but speculated to have likely appeared in Cole's hometown newspaper). Back home, Cole took a job at American Can and continued to draw at night.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}