Vincent Fago headed the Timely animator bullpen, which was largely separate from the superhero group that produced comics featuring the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner and Captain America.
11 Facts About Vincent Fago
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Later in his career, Vincent Fago oversaw Pendulum Press' Now Age Books line of comic book adaptations of literary classics.
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Vincent Fago was born in 1914 in Yonkers, New York, of parents who had immigrated from Naples, Italy.
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Vincent Fago had two sisters and a 10-year-older brother, Al Fago.
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At 14, Vincent Fago sold his first cartoon to the New York Sun, for $2.
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Vincent Fago attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, graduating at age 20, he recalled in 2001, after encountering difficulties upon losing vision in one eye at age 16.
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Vincent Fago quickly became head of the "animator" bullpen producing those non-superhero comics, and during editor Stan Lee's US Army service from 1942 to 1945, Fago assumed the interim title of Timely's Editorial and Art Director, beginning on comics cover-dated March 1943.
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Sometime after Lee's return, Vincent Fago left to work in independent comic-book production; he and his brother Al self-published the one-shot Kiddie Kapers.
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Vincent Fago worked as a children's-book illustrator for Golden Press.
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Vincent Fago spent his final years in Bethel with his wife before dying of cancer at age 87.
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Vincent Fago's brother Al Vincent Fago was a cartoonist who created the Charlton Comics character Atomic Mouse.