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American illustrator and writer Lou Cameron attended the California School of Fine Arts. He was active as a comic book artist in the 1950s and was a versatile artist for Gilberton's 'Classics Illustrated' series, drawing comic adaptations of novels by Herbert George Wells, Ann S. Stephens, Alexandre Dumas, Emile Zola, and Robert Louis Stevenson. He was also a contributor to the mystery titles published by Atlas, including Astonishing Comics, Journey into Mystery, Uncanny Tales, and Journey Into Unknown Worlds. He illustrated stories in the same genre for DC titles like House of Mystery, House of Secrets, and Tales of the Unexpected, as well as Ace Periodicals' Baffling Mysteries, Web of Mystery, and Hand of Fate. Additionally, he created horror stories for St. John Publishing and romance and western features for Story Comics. In 1951 and 1952, he produced a syndicated feature called 'So It Seems.' During the same period, Cameron was active as a pulp book illustrator. From 1957, he focused on his work as a writer, which he did under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Julie Cameron, Dagmar, Mary Manning, and Ramsay Thorne. Among his many novels, mainly in suspense, war, and western genres, are 'Beyond the Scarlet Door,' 'The Amphorae Pirates,' 'Belle of Fort Smith,' and 'The Dirty War of Sgt. Slade,' as well as the 'Stringer' western series.