In the late 1950s, he began submitting work to Mad Magazine, ultimately contributing over 60 pieces. In 1950 he started working for the publications department of the Bank Street College of Education in New York, and also scripted industrial films and radio shows. He also wrote for the TV series Captain Kangaroo. Īfter the war, Reit did cartoon work for Archie and Little Lulu, and wrote gags for some of the new Casper animated shorts that were being produced.

It contains a version of the urban legend which claims that British aviators taunted the German Army by dropping a wooden bomb on a decoy airfield the Germans had built. He later wrote a book, The Amazing Camouflage Deceptions of World War II, drawing on his wartime experience. Army Air Force camouflage unit tasked with defending the West Coast from a Japanese invasion, and later served in Europe after D-Day. He attended New York University with future Captain Marvel writer William Woolfolk and helped launch Woolfolk's career as a writer of comics by introducing him to Jerry Iger and Will Eisner.

He also anonymously produced comic strips for Jerry Iger under the Fiction House label. He worked as an in-betweener and inker on the 1939 animated film Gulliver's Travels, and later became a gag writer for the Popeye and Betty Boop cartoon series, among others. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School and New York University, where he drew cartoons for humorous college magazines. Reit was born in New York City on 11 November 1918 ( Armistice Day). Reit started his career working for Fleischer Studios as an animator he also worked for Jerry Iger and Will Eisner as a cartoonist, for Laffboy as editor in 1965, and for Mad Magazine and several other publications as a humorist. Reit was the creator, with cartoonist Joe Oriolo, of the character Casper the Friendly Ghost. Urn:oclc:27265257 Scandate 20091118213435 Scanner Victory Reit (11 November 1918 – 21 November 2001) was an American author of over 80 children's books as well as several works for adults.

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Behind Rebel Lines by Seymour Reit