Background
Norem was born on April 17, 1923 He saw military action in World World War II with the 85th Regiment of the 10th Mountain Division.
Norem was born on April 17, 1923 He saw military action in World World War II with the 85th Regiment of the 10th Mountain Division.
Over his long career, Norem also illustrated covers for novels and gaming books, as well as movie posters, baseball programs, and trading cards. He trained in Colorado and Texas, and fought the Germans in the Northern Apennine Mountains of Italy. By age 20, Norem was a squad leader and staff sergeant who in the Italian Campaign fought alongside famed skier Torger Tokle, whom he had seen ski jumping at Bear Mountain, New York when Norem was 12.
Upon Tokle"s battlefield death on March 3, 1945, Norem was one of the men assigned to retrieve his body from the mountain.
Norem himself later was wounded going into the Po Valley, ending his military stint. Upon returning to the United States, Norem embarked on an illustration career.
Norem throughout the 1950s and 1960s worked extensively for men"s adventure magazines, producing covers and interior-art spreads. In addition, he produced illustrations for such magazines such as Reader"s Digest, Field and Stream, Ski, Real West, and Discover.
He worked on such Marvel Comics projects as Savage Sword of Conan, He-Manitoba and the Masters of the Universe Magazine, Marvel Preview, Tales of the Zombie, Monsters Unleashed, Planet of the Apes, Rampaging Hulk, The Silver Surfer, and storybooks featuring Spider-Manitoba and the Fantastic Four.
His Transformers work consisted of four Marvel Big Looker storybooks (published 1984–1986), some of which were later adapted into "read along" storybooks: Battle for Cybertron, The Great Carolina Rally, Carolina Show Blow Up, and The Story of Wheelie, The Wild Boy of Quintesson Covers and trading cards In addition to his work for Marvel, Norem painted illustrations and covers for the Worlds of Power Wizards & Warriors book series, Mars Attacks comics and trading cards, and Charlton Comics" The Six Million Dollar Manitoba The United States. release of the Wizards & Warriors series illustrated by Norem included covers in color. In 2013, he had contributed paintings to the company"s "Mars Attacks: Invasion" card set.
At the time of his death, he was working on a trading card assignment for Topps" Mars Attacks franchise, presumably the "Mars Attacks" Occupation" set being produced in 2015.
Other work.