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Jim Aparo

Jim Aparo
Birth name James N. Aparo
Born 1932
Died July 19, 2005
Nationality American
Area(s) Penciller
Notable works Batman
Awards Shazam Award
  • Best Individual Short Story (Dramatic) (1972)

James N. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "Jim" Aparo (1932 - July 19, 2005) was an American comic book artist best known for his 1960's and 1970's work on various DC Comics including Batman, Aquaman and The Spectre (during a short run in Adventure Comics). Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a fictional Comic book Superhero co-created The Spectre is a fictional cosmic entity and Superhero who has appeared in numerous Comic books published by DC Comics. Adventure Comics is a Comic book series published by DC Comics from 1935 to 1983 Aparo's style was primarily in the tradition of his influential contemporary Neal Adams, striving for realistic renditions of his subject rather than caricature or exaggeration. Neal Adams (born June 6, 1941, Governors Island, Manhattan, New York City) is an American Comic book and A caricature is either a Portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness or in literature a description Aparo's muscular figures tended to be leaner than those drawn by most of his peers. He paid particular attention to detail in rendering vehicles, "street clothes", architecture, and landscape. He frequently tilted the viewpoint so that the horizon line in a panel was significantly angled away from level, and used props such as potted plants and furniture to emphasize depth in a setting. He was also known for inserting drawings of celebrities (such as Humphrey Bogart, Peter Falk, Ed McMahon, and Fred Allen) as background characters in heavily-populated scenes. A celebrity is a widely-recognized or famous person who commands a high degree of public and media attention Peter Michael Falk (born September 16 1927 is a two-time Academy Award -nominated five-time Emmy Award -winning and one-time Golden Globe award -winning Edward "Ed" Leo Peter McMahon Jr (born March 6 1923 is an American Comedian, Game show host, Announcer, and Television personality Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan May 31 1894 - March 17, 1956) was an American Comedian whose absurdist

Aparo was primarily self-trained as an artist. He attempted to enter the comic book profession in his early 20s, approaching EC Comics, which declined to hire him. Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American Publisher of Comic books specializing in Crime fiction, He then worked in the advertising industry in Connecticut, often drawing fashion illustrations for newspaper advertisements. He continued to pursue a career in comic books and comic strips while working in advertising.

His first break in the comics field was with a comic strip called "Stern Wheeler," written by Ralph Kanna, which was published in 1963 in a Hartford, Connecticut newspaper for less than a year. In 1966, editor Dick Giordano at Charlton Comics hired him as a comic book artist, where his first assignment was a humorous character called "Miss Bikini Luv" in "Go-Go Comics. Dick Giordano (born Richard Joseph Giordano on July 20, 1932) is an American Comic book Artist and editor Charlton Comics was an American Comic book publishing company that existed from 1946 to 1986 having begun under a different name in 1944 "

Over the next few years at Charlton, Aparo drew stories in many genres--Westerns, science fiction, romance, horror, mystery, and suspense. Most of his work was for standalone stories in anthology titles, but there were a few notable continuing series that featured Aparo art:

Aparo was notable for being one of the relatively few artists in mainstream comics at that time to serve as penciller, inker, and letterer for all of his work. A penciller (or penciler) is one of a number of types of Artists working within the Comic book industry The inker is one of the two line artists in a traditional Comic book, or Graphic novel. A letterer is a member of a team of Comic book creators responsible for drawing the Comic book 's text These tasks were typically divided between two or more artists, leading most of his contemporaries to specialize in a single area, and allowing editors to pipeline the preparation of comic book art in order to speed production.

In the late 1960s, Dick Giordano left Charlton for an editorial position at DC Comics and offered Aparo a job drawing the Aquaman comic book. Dick Giordano (born Richard Joseph Giordano on July 20, 1932) is an American Comic book Artist and editor DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company After an initial issue (#40) for which Aparo provided only pencil art, Aparo resumed producing pencils, inks, and letters for most issues of the series until its cancellation. Aparo continued for a time to provide art to Charlton for The Phantom, alternating between the two series month by month (both series were being released on a bimonthly basis at the time).

Eventually Aparo resigned his assignment on The Phantom and worked almost exclusively for the remainder of his career for DC Comics. Aparo's next series assignment at DC was Phantom Stranger. The Phantom Stranger is a Fictional character of unspecified Paranormal origins who battles mysterious and Occult forces in various titles published After Aquaman was cancelled, the bimonthly frequency of Phantom Stranger was insufficient to fill his typical production rate of one page per day, so DC assigned him several short jobs such as mystery stories for House of Mystery and House of Secrets. The House of Mystery is the name of several horror-mystery-suspense anthology comic book series The House of Secrets is the name of several mystery -suspense Anthology Comic book series published by DC Comics.

In 1971, Aparo was assigned a fill-in job as the artist for The Brave and the Bold #98. For the Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy album see The Brave and the Bold (album. This series routinely featured team-ups of DC's Batman with other characters, in this case, the Phantom Stranger. Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a fictional Comic book Superhero co-created As the regular artist on the Phantom Stranger's own series, Aparo was considered an appropriate choice. The editor of Brave and Bold soon assigned Aparo the regular artistic responsibilities for the series, which he continued until its cancellation with issue 200, missing only a few issues.

During the more than 10 years as the artist for Brave and Bold, its bimonthly frequency permitted Aparo to do many other significant works for DC. In addition to numerous covers, he served as the regular artist for a notorious series starring a ruthless avenging ghost called the Spectre, which ran in Adventure Comics, and which in 2005 was collected in a trade paperback edition (ISBN 1-4012-0474-0). The Spectre is a fictional cosmic entity and Superhero who has appeared in numerous Comic books published by DC Comics. Adventure Comics is a Comic book series published by DC Comics from 1935 to 1983 He also provided art for a revival of Aquaman in both Adventure Comics and a continuation of the previously-cancelled Aquaman. He was assigned the solo Batman series in Detective Comics for a rather short time and drew occasional stories for anthology series. Detective Comics is an American comic book published monthly by DC Comics since 1937 best-known for introducing the iconic Superhero Batman

When Brave and Bold was cancelled in 1983, it was replaced with a series called Batman and the Outsiders, a superhero team led by Batman. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) The Outsiders are fictional characters a DC Comics Superhero team This series, which Aparo co-created with writer Mike W. Barr, ran for several years, continuing with an Outsiders series that did not include Batman. Mike W Barr, is an American writer of Comic books and mystery, and Science fiction novels For the final few issues, DC finally requested that Aparo provide only pencils, and a long and nearly unbroken string of Aparo inking and lettering his own work came mostly to an end.

The scene from Batman #428 (1988), in which Batman discovers Jason Todd dead
The scene from Batman #428 (1988), in which Batman discovers Jason Todd dead

Aparo's next major work consisted of pencils for Batman and Detective Comics, where his art was almost always inked by Mike DeCarlo. Mike DeCarlo is an American artist of Comic books. He has worked on such diverse titles as Batman, Crisis on Infinite Earths Perhaps the most notable product of this period remains "A Death in the Family" (Batman #426-429, 1988-9), depicting the death of Jason Todd (Robin). A Death in the Family is a Batman Comic book story arc first published in the late 1980s which gave fans the ability to influence the story Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Jason Todd is a Fictional character appearing in Comic books published by DC Comics. Aparo continued to draw Batman stories in Detective and Batman until the early 1990s. For a while in 1992, Aparo was again asked to provide pencils, inks, and lettering for his Batman stories, but was soon returned to contributing only pencil art.

In 1992, Aparo was given his last regular series assignment for DC as pencil artist for Green Arrow issues 81-100. For the LNER Steam locomotive, see LNER Class V2 4771 Green Arrow Green Arrow ( Oliver Jones "Ollie" Queen Following that assignment, Aparo's work appeared infrequently, when Aparo was mostly assigned occasional Batman-related stories and covers in miniseries and specials. His published work in the late 1990s and early 2000s include a Batman Annual (inked by former Marvel Comics mainstay Sal Buscema), a G. Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc Silvio "Sal" Buscema (born on January 26, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York) is an American Comic C. P. D. miniseries, a Speed Force Special (featuring The Flash), an issue of a Deadman miniseries that revisited his "Death in the Family" story, and a single page of Legends of the Green Flame written by Neil Gaiman in which he had a final opportunity to draw the Phantom Stranger for publication. Deadman is a Fictional character, a Superhero appearing in DC Comics. Neil Richard Gaiman (ˈgeɪmən (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of Science fiction and Fantasy short stories and The Phantom Stranger is a Fictional character of unspecified Paranormal origins who battles mysterious and Occult forces in various titles published

In his retirement, Aparo sold many of the original art pages produced over his long career. His most recent work for DC was the cover for the trade paperback Batman in the Eighties, published in 2004. TwoMorrows Publishing plans to publish The Brave and Bold Art of Jim Aparo (ISBN 1-893905-49-7), a book that will focus on Aparo's work. TwoMorrows Publishing is a publisher of Magazines about Comic books, founded in 1994 by John and Pam Morrow out of their small advertising agency in Raleigh North Recent internet comments from Eric Nolen-Weathington, one of the book's authors, indicate that the publishers hope for a release of the book in 2007.

Aparo died early on July 19, 2005. Some reports attributed the cause of death to "a long battle with cancer", but his family's formal announcement (through his art agent Spencer Beck) attributed his death to "complications relating to a recent illness" and the AP obituary reported that "Aparo died Tuesday at home after a short illness, said his daughter, Donna Aparo. "

Aparo won a good deal of recognition in the industry for his work, including the Shazam Award for Best Individual Short Story (Dramatic) in 1972 for "The Demon Within" in House of Mystery #201 (with John Albano). The House of Mystery is the name of several horror-mystery-suspense anthology comic book series John Albano was an American writer who worked in the comics industry He was also nominated for the R. A. C. "Squiddy" Award for Best Artist in 1991.

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