Donato Francisco Rico II (September 26, 1912 - March 1985) was an American comic book writer and artist for Marvel Comics' predecessors, Timely and Atlas, and a paperback novelist. His pen names include Dan Rico, Donella St. Michaels, Donna Richards, Joseph Milton, and N. Korok.
Don Rico created wood engravings of gloomy Depression-era life for the W.P.A. Federal Art Project in the mid-to-late 1930s. He began his comics career in 1940 at Victor A...
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Donato Francisco Rico II (September 26, 1912 - March 1985) was an American comic book writer and artist for Marvel Comics' predecessors, Timely and Atlas, and a paperback novelist. His pen names include Dan Rico, Donella St. Michaels, Donna Richards, Joseph Milton, and N. Korok.
Don Rico created wood engravings of gloomy Depression-era life for the W.P.A. Federal Art Project in the mid-to-late 1930s. He began his comics career in 1940 at Victor A. Fox's Fox Publications and later worked on some of the earliest stories of the 1940s superhero Daredevil (unrelated to Marvel Comics' Daredevil) in Lev Gleason Publications' Silver Streak Comics, helping lay the foundation for a character that would go on to a celebrated run in his own title under Charles Biro.
Joining the staff at Timely Comics, a forerunner of Marvel Comics, by 1943, Rico variously wrote/drew for characters including Captain America (including the lead story in All Select Comics #1), the Whizzer (including in All Winners...
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