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Roy Krenkel

Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (died 1983)

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Born
July 11, 1918
Died
February 24, 1983
Zodiac sign
Cancer
Birth year
1918

About Roy Krenkel

Roy Gerald Krenkel, who often signed his work RGK, was an American illustrator who specialized in fantasy and historical drawings and paintings for books, magazines and comic books. His enlistment papers of January 23, 1942, record him as living in Queens, as having graduated from high school, and as single, without dependents, employed as an actor. During the late 1960s, he created cover paintings for DAW Books and Lancer Books. He also created preliminary roughs which Frazetta modified and used when he painted covers for Warren Publishing's Creepy and Eerie.

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The world when Roy Krenkel was born

Roy Krenkel was born in 1918. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1918

  • Best-selling book"The U.P. Trail" – Zane Grey

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentWorld Series played in September due to WWI
  • Top headlineWorld War I ends — Spanish Flu pandemic begins
  • Technology milestoneFirst regular airmail service
  • World population~1.78B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population102.0M

1918 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Roy Krenkel's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19182026
Gas$0.25$3.45/gal
Postage stamp$0.03$0.73
Population102.0M341 million

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