Joe Giella is an American comic book artist best known as a DC Comics inker during the Silver Age of comic books. For a picture of him and his work, see his biography card at the National Cartoonists Society, of which he is a member.
Joe Giella attended Manhattan's School of Industrial Art, where future singer Tony Bennett was a classmate and friend, leaving three months shy of graduation in order to work and help support his Depression-era famil...
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Joe Giella is an American comic book artist best known as a DC Comics inker during the Silver Age of comic books. For a picture of him and his work, see his biography card at the National Cartoonists Society, of which he is a member.
Joe Giella attended Manhattan's School of Industrial Art, where future singer Tony Bennett was a classmate and friend, leaving three months shy of graduation in order to work and help support his Depression-era family. At 17 or 18, he freelanced for editor Ed Cronin at Hillman Periodicals, penciling and inking the humor feature "Captain Codfish". He also studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan, alongside future comics professionals Mike Sekowsky and Joe Kubert, and took commercial art courses at Hunter College.
Giella later freelanced for Fawcett Comics, commuting by bus to C. C. Beck's and Pete Costanza's studio in Englewood, New Jersey to ink Captain Marvel stories. In either 1946 or 1947, he began freelancing for Timely Comics, the 1940s...
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