"Intruder at Scotland Yard" by Paul Norris (OH/CA, 1914-2007), original storyboard for Ellery Queen comics, ink/blue pencil on art board, signed, circa mid 20th century, obtained through Amity Art Foundation, loose - 11 1/4" x 15" 
 
Paul Leroy Norris was a comic book artist best known as co-creator of the DC Comics superhero Aquaman, and for a 35-year run as artist and writer of the newspaper comic strip Brick Bradford. Norris studied at the Dayton Art Institute and started working as an illustrator and cartoonist for the Dayton Daily News in the late 1930s. He moved to New York in 1940, where he got a job at Prize Publications, creating the comics Power Nelson, Futureman and Yank and Doodle. Moving to work for National, he launched Aquaman, with Mort Weisinger, and collaborated on various other comics. In 1942, he drew his first newspaper strip, taking over Vic Jordan for the New York Daily PM. After returning from World War II, he was hired by King Features Syndicate, and worked on several comic books starring Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim. Norris was was also the artist of several episodes of Secret Agent X-9 during the period 1943-46. His big break came in 1948, when he took over the Jungle Jim Sunday feature from Austin Briggs. In 1952, he took over the Brick Bradford daily strip from Clarence Gray, which he continued until 1987.