LAMME, ROBERT CASEY was born 16 January 1917, received Social Security number xxx-xx-xxxx (indicating Florida) and, Death Master File says, died 26 April 1981.
Bob Lamme was the childhood best friend of Hal Kanter in Miami, where the two were classmates at Southside Elementary School. Lamme, who had no comic book credits elsewhere, was assigned Frederick Marryat?s Mr. Midshipman Easy, CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #74 (Aug 1950). Albert Kanter offered to employ him full-time, but the artist preferred to stay in Florida. He joined The Miami Herald in 1948 as an advertising department artist. See: Florida, Land of Images. With Drawings by Bob Lamme. Smiley, Nixon. Published Miami, Florida: E.A. Seemann Publishing, Inc., (1972). First Edition., 1972. ?William B. Jones, Jr., Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, Second Edition, ? 2011, McFarland & Company, Inc., Page 116