Creator/Marvel

Frank Giacoia

5,863 comics1924–1988 · Italy

Cover 3,182Writer 4Penciller 419Inker 3,226Colorist 2Letterer 1Editor 1

Frank Giacoia has 5,863 credited comics indexed across 60 series, working as cover, writer, penciller, inker, colorist, letterer, editor.

Frank Giacoia was an American comics artist known primarily as an inker. In 1941, Giacoia joined the studio of Will Eisner and Jerry Iger. His early works include drawing crime comics for Ace Comics, horror for Avon Publishing, and a multitude of characters for National Comics Publications, including the Flash and Batman. Other companies for which Giacoia did art during the 1940s and 1950s include Crestwood Publications, Dell Comics, Eastern Color Printing, Fawcett Comics, Harvey Comics, Lev Gleason Publications, and Timely Comics. During the 1960s Silver Age of comic books, Giacoia became best known as a Marvel Comics inker, particularly on Captain America stories penciled by the character's co-creator Jack Kirby. One of the company's preeminent names, he worked on virtually every title at one time or another. Giacoia also worked on the newspaper comic strip The Amazing Spider-Man from 1978–1981, as well as on the strips Flash Gordon, The Incredible Hulk, Johnny Reb and Billy Yank, Sherlock Holmes, and Thorne McBride.

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