Sheldon Moldoff was born in New York City on April 14, 1920. He learned how to draw with a hanincr=F|dful of chalk, using the sidewalks of Manhattan as his canvas.

When the young Manhattanite was just seventeen he sold his first cartoon and soon afterward became Bob Kane's first assistant on Batman, working with Bob on the Batman off and on for thirty years.

He started working in comics because as Sheldon puts it "Someone told me that cartoonists make a lot of money. Sounded like a great way to make a living!"

In 1940 he created both the Black Pirate and the Hawkman for DC. From about 1939 he was one of DC's most prolific cover artists, illustrating many covers, including the cover to All American #16, the first appearance of Green Lantern.

In 1953 he became one of the lead artists on the Batman (Dick Sprang, and Win Mortimer were the other two lead Batman artists) which he drew for the next 14 years, with his work being inked by the wonderful Charles Paris.

Many of these Batman stories with Moldoff's art are some of the most fondly remembered Batman tales by baby boomer fans, with such great stories as "the Second Batman & Robin" (Batman #131), "Bat Hound, Movie Star" (Batman #103), "the Bat-Woman" (Detective #233) and the ultra-classic "Death of Robin" in Batman #156.

Sheldon left comics in 1967, during the big DC "clean out" when Wayne Boring, George Papp and several other golden age artists were let go.

From there he went into film production, working on numerous animated projects, one of which was storyboarding the Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse cartoon series as well as hundreds of others.