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				EARLE K. BERGEY
			Birth date unknown. He began his art career with Ned Pine's pulp fiction magazines. Captain Future, Startling Stories, Popular Love and Love Stories. He specialized in the female figure, and achieved fame for his creations of cone-shaped, iron-hard bras which he evidently assumed women from outer space or the future would be wearing. He had a sense of what generated sales, and was one of Pine's most valuable assets.
		Bergey is a case of great fame from a relative few number of paperback works. He illustrated 16 covers for Popular Library starting in 1948, and only a few after 1952 for Pocket Books. His style came directly from the pulp era when he did most of artistic labors for pulp- magazine entrepeneur Ned Pine, who took Bergey with him after founding Popular Library.
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