William Fraccio was an American comic book artist whose career stretched from the 1940s Golden Age of comic books through 1979, when he turned to producing advertising art and teaching.
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William Fraccio was an American comic book artist whose career stretched from the 1940s Golden Age of comic books through 1979, when he turned to producing advertising art and teaching.
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Bill Fraccio is best known for his 23-year run at Charlton Comics, where he illustrated, among many other things, the first two professional stories of future Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Roy Thomas.
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Bill Fraccio attended New York City's American School of Design, where classmate Fred Kida introduced him to comic-book art.
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Bill Fraccio reportedly contributed to DS Publishing titles including Exposed and Gangsters Can't Win; to the Fawcett Comics feature "Commando Yank" in America's Greatest Comics; and to backup features in Lev Gleason Publications' Daredevil Comics.
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Bill Fraccio then began beginning his long association with Charlton, starting with the premiere issue of writer Jerry Siegel's Mr Muscles, about a wrestler who gains super strength and fights crime.
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The series had taken over the numbering of a defunct comic, Blue Beetle — which, coincidentally, Bill Fraccio would draw for several issues upon that superhero series' revival in 1964.
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Bill Fraccio provided art in the variety of genres for the low-budget Derby, Connecticut-based Charlton Comics through the late-1950s and 1960s Silver Age of comic books and beyond.
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Bill Fraccio's last recorded Charlton work was two backup stories in Surf N' Wheels vol.
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Bill Fraccio was a resident of Mount Vernon, New York, at the time of his death.
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Bill Fraccio did the best he could for the money he was paid, in the time he had to get that work done.
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