Charles J "Jerry" Grandenetti was an American comic book artist and advertising art director, best known for his work with writer-artist Will Eisner on the celebrated comics feature "The Spirit", and for his decade-and-a-half run on many DC Comics war series.
10 Facts About Jerry Grandenetti
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Jerry Grandenetti co-created the DC comic book Prez with Joe Simon.
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Jerry Grandenetti was born in the village of Bronxville in the town of Eastchester, New York, a suburb of New York City.
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Jerry Grandenetti drew "Senorita Rio" stories for the same publisher's Fight Comics.
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At DC, then the leading comic-book company and the home of Batman and Superman, Jerry Grandenetti drew some of everything that was not a superhero.
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Jerry Grandenetti liked to experiment and I had to sit on him to get him to stop it.
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Jerry Grandenetti became known for cover art rendered in wash-tone, known as grey-tone, which, as comics-art historian Don Mangus describes, "is executed as an ink-wash drawing, and then a halftone Photostat of the cover is made, the logo added, and finally the color is laid in over this statted wash drawing", rendering a painted effect.
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Mostly Jerry Grandenetti began turning to Warren Publishing, home of the black-and-white, horror-comics magazines Creepy and Eerie.
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Jerry Grandenetti contributed to at least one issue of the black-and-white humor magazine Sick, edited by his friend Joe Simon, the Golden Age co-creator of Captain America, then collaborated with Simon at DC on issues of Champion Sports.
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Jerry Grandenetti, who lived in Bellport, New York, on Long Island, died at age 83 at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital in nearby East Patchogue, New York.