Joseph Orlando was an Italian-American illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist during a lengthy career spanning six decades.
18 Facts About Joe Orlando
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Joe Orlando was the associate publisher of Mad and the vice president of DC Comics, where he edited numerous titles and ran DC's Special Projects department.
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Joe Orlando was born in Bari, Italy, emigrating to the United States in 1929.
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Joe Orlando began drawing at an early age, going to art classes at a neighborhood boys' club when he was seven years old.
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Joe Orlando continued there until he was 14, winning prizes annually in their competitions, including a John Wanamaker bronze medal.
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Joe Orlando entered the comic book field in 1949 when the packager Lloyd Jacquet assigned him to draw for the Catholic-oriented Treasure Chest.
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Joe Orlando was earning $25 a page at EC, and shortly after his first EC stories under his own name were published that year, he married his first wife, Gloria, in September 1951.
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Joe Orlando did covers for Newsweek and New Times, and his work as an illustrator appeared in National Lampoon, children's books and numerous comic books.
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For Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine Creepy, debuting in 1964, Joe Orlando was not only an illustrator but a story editor on early issues.
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Joe Orlando worked in toy design, packaging and advertising; sales of Harold von Braunhut's Sea-Monkeys escalated considerably after Orlando drew a series of unusual advertisements visualizing the creatures' enchanted and peaceful undersea kingdom.
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Joe Orlando launched the Swing with Scooter series with writers Barbara Friedlander and Jack Miller in July 1966.
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Joe Orlando coined the names of the Weird War Tales and Weird Western Tales titles.
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Joe Orlando's contribution was designed as if it were a page from the fake title; the conceit being that Joe Orlando had been the artist for a run of stories from the fictional Tales of the Black Freighter comic.
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The Joe Orlando page was the only artwork for the series not by Gibbons.
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Joe Orlando had a long working association with the prolific letterer Ben Oda, roughing out display lettering effects which Oda would finish.
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Joe Orlando illustrated four additional articles for publication in Mad with the last appearing in the July 1997 issue.
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Joe Orlando received the Inkpot Award in 1980 and was chosen for the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Joe Orlando appeared in a taped segment on Horror Hall of Fame II, telecast October 17,1991.