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She was inducted into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame in 2001. Her brother John Severin is also an artist who has worked for EC and Marvel.

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Marie Severin was born August 21, 1929. She grew up in an artistic household where her father, a World War I veteran, eventually became a designer for the fashion company Elizabeth Arden during the 1930s. In her teens, Severin took "a couple of months" of cartooning and illustration classes, and attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York "for one day and said, 'This is a college', and I wanted to draw and make money".

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Severin was working on Wall Street when her comics-artist brother, John Severin, needed a colorist for his work at EC Comics. Marie Severin's earliest recorded comic-book work is coloring EC Comics' A Moon, a Girl...Romance #9 (Oct. 1949). She would contribute across the company's line, including its war comics and its celebrated but notoriously graphic horror comics. She has repeatedly refuted the often told tale that she colored especially gruesome panels a dark blue as a sign of protest.