Francisco Chiaramonte (June 5, 1942 – January 28, 1983) was an American

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artist best known as an inker for

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and

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from 1972 to 1982.

Biography

Born in

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, Frank Chiaramonte emigrated to the

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in 1967. Some of his earliest comics-related work in the U.S. was as an inker under artist-packager

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and penciler

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on the military instructional publication '' PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly''. Additional, December 26, 2010. As fellow ''PS'' artist

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recalled, "Frank had come to work for Will about the same time I did, maybe a month or two later, and was just fresh from Cuba. ... s father was Sicilian, but his mother was

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, or Cuban. Frank considered himself as

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as he did Cuban. ... Frank worked with me and did most of the tech art." When Ploog moved on and began finding freelance work at

, Chiaramonte collaborated with him as inker on several of Ploog's earliest stories, including in ''

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'' #1-3 (Sept. 1972 - Jan. 1973) and ''

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'' #7 (Dec. 1972), featuring

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. He also inked several Ploog stories in the swamp-monster series ''

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'' in 1974, and Ploog stories in the black-and-white comics magazine ''

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'' in 1974 and 1975. With other pencilers, he inked many stories starring the martial artist superhero Iron Fist, as well as ''

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'' #18 (May 1973), the debut of the feature " Killraven, Warrior of the Worlds", inking

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Chiaramonte moved to

to freelance in 1977, beginning with ''

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'' #475 (Sept. 1977), in which he inked Kurt Schaffenberger on the lead Superman story, and

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on the Lori Lemaris backup. He became Curt Swan's regular inker on the sister series ''Superman'' from 1978 through mid-1982. In addition to other Superman work in ''Action Comics'', ''The Superman Family'', '' World of Krypton'' and related titles, he also inked numerous stories for '' The Flash'', '' Detective Comics'', '' The Legion of Super-Heroes'' and many other series. His last known work was inking Schaffenberger on the 15-page

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story "Beware the Yellow Peri" in ''The New Adventures of Superboy'' #34 (Oct. 1982).

References

External links

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at the Comic Book Database
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