1. Charles Biro was an American comic book creator and cartoonist.
10 Facts About Charles Biro
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Charles Biro created the comic book characters Airboy and Steel Sterling, and worked on Daredevil Comics and Crime Does Not Pay at Lev Gleason Publications.
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Charles Biro joined the Harry "A" Chesler Shop c 1936.
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Charles Biro worked as artistic supervisor for MLJ until 1941, writing and drawing such characters as Steel Sterling and Sgt.
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Charles Biro would stay with the title for the rest of his time working for Gleason, and make the character one of the most acclaimed of the Golden Age.
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Charles Biro produced work for Henle and Fiction House in the mid to late 1930s and co-created the character of Airboy for Hillman Periodicals in 1941.
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For Lev Gleason, Charles Biro helped to create the Crime comics genre with the landmark title Crime Does Not Pay, which he edited along with Bob Wood.
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Charles Biro was employed for the last ten years of his life by NBC as a graphic artist between 1962 and 1972.
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Charles Biro died on March 4,1972, and was nominated for induction into the Eisner Hall of Fame in both 1998 and 2000, before being formally inducted in 2002.
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Charles Biro even dubbed them 'Illustories,' but the name never caught on.