10 Facts About Bill Fraccio

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.

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.

Bill Fraccio attended New York City's American School of Design, where classmate Fred Kida introduced him to comic-book art.

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.

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.

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.

Bill Fraccio's last recorded Charlton work was two backup stories in Surf N' Wheels vol.

Bill Fraccio was a resident of Mount Vernon, New York, at the time of his death.

Bill Fraccio did the best he could for the money he was paid, in the time he had to get that work done.