cartoonist". Around the same time, Fisher's mansion in Carol Beach, Wisconsin was destroyed by a storm. Death On December 27, 1955, Fisher left his home for Moe Leff's studio, which Fisher had been using while Leff was out of town. Fisher telephoned his mother shortly after 1 pm, engaging in what police termed a "sentimental" conversation, and later in the evening, Fisher's concerned wife asked Weiss to check the studio, where Fisher's body was discovered just after 9 pm. Notes found by police indicated Fisher was despondent over his failing health and planned an overdose of medication. A will drawn up weeks before his death left an estate of $2.5 million to his wife Marilyn and daughter Wendy. The feud between Fisher and Capp, and Fisher's suicide, was fictionalized with all names changed and many details altered in the mystery novel Strip for Murder by Max Allan Collins. References External links Lambiek Comiclopedia: Ham Fisher Ham Fisher and James Montgomery Flagg 1900s births 1955 suicides American comics artists American comic strip cartoonists Writers from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Suicides in New York City 1955 deaths