Charles Paris
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Charles Paris is a comic book artist, predominately working as an inker, mainly for DC Comics.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Charles Paris was born in 1911, and moved to New York in 1934.[1] In Spring 1941, Paris met Jack Lehti, and soon after began work inking and lettering Lehti's Crimson Avenger in the pages of Detective Comics.[1] From there, Paris started work in the DC 'bullpen', inking characters such as Airwave, and later working on Vigilante and Johnny Quick, among other characters.[1]
[edit] Batman
He with Bob Kane on the 1943-46 Batman and Robin newspaper strip, inking most of its run.[1] When that strip ended, Paris was employed by DC Comics as an inker on a number of Batman comic stories and covers, predominately inking the work of Sheldon Moldoff and Dick Sprang.[1] Despite working on Moldoff's pencils for a number of years, the pair never met, Moldoff recalling "The field was very competitive, and you rarely hobnobbed with people, because there was always somebody waiting for your job."[2] During Paris' run on the book the character Batmite was introduced.[3] In addition to his inking work, Paris penciled two issues of the Batman title - #42 and #46.
Paris worked on Batman titles until 1964.[1]
[edit] Other work
Paris' last regular assignment from DC was inking the self-titled Metamorpho comic book, for which he inked 15 of the 17 issues between July 1965 and December 1967.[4]
Outside of the comics field, during the late 1940s and early 1950s, "Paris produced a variety of artwork... including Western genre paintings."[1]
As of 1994, he was living in Arizona.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Biography by Joe Desris, in Batman Archives, Volume 3 (DC Comics, 1994), p. 224 ISBN 1-56389-099-2
- ^ Daniels, Les, Batman: The Complete History. Chronicle Books, 2004. p.88. ISBN:0811842320.
- ^ Daniels, Les, Batman: The Complete History. Chronicle Books, 2004. p.88. ISBN:0811842320.
- ^ ComicBookDb: Matamorpho (1965). Accesed May 8, 2008
