Joseph Orlando (April 4, 1927 – December 23, 1998) was an Italian American illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist during a lengthy career spanning six decades. He was the associate publisher of '' Mad'' and the vice president of

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, where he edited numerous titles and ran DC's Special Projects department.

Early life

Orlando was born in Bari,

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, emigrating to the

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in 1929. He began drawing at an early age, going to art classes at a neighborhood boys' club when he was seven years old. He continued there until he was 14, winning prizes annually in their competitions, including a John Wanamaker bronze medal. In 1941, he began attending the School of Industrial Art (later the

High School of Art and Design The High School of Art and Design is a career and technical education high school in Manhattan, New York City, New York State, United States. Founded in 1936 as the School of Industrial Art, the school moved to 1075 Second Avenue in 1960 and mor ...

), where he studied illustration. This school was a breeding ground for a number of comics artists, including

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Frank Giacoia Frank Giacoia (July 6, 1924 – February 4, 1988) was an American comics artist known primarily as an inker. He sometimes worked under the name Frank Ray, and to a lesser extent Phil Zupa, and the single moniker Espoia, the latter used for collab ...

, Carmine Infantino,

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and future comics

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. Infantino and Orlando remained close friends for decades. While Orlando was still a student, he drew his first published illustrations, scenes of Mark Twain's ''

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'' for a high-school textbook. After his high school graduation, Orlando entered the

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and was assigned to the

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, doing stockade guard duty, followed by 18 months in Europe. From Le Havre, France, he was sent to Antwerp, Belgium and then to Germany, where he stenciled boxcars and guarded strategic supplies for the occupation forces. After his 1947 discharge, he returned to New York and began study at the

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on the GI Bill. He entered the

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field in 1949 when the packager

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assigned him to draw for the

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-oriented '' Treasure Chest''. This was a "Chuck White" story that paid nine dollars a page. At the Jacquet Studio he met fellow artist

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, and the two teamed later on many projects.

Professional career

EC and ''Mad''

In the early 1950s, he was an assistant to

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on stories for several publishers, including Fox, Youthful, Avon and

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, before becoming a regular staff artist with EC in mid-1951. He was earning $25 a page at EC, and shortly after his first EC stories under his own name were published that year, he married his first wife, Gloria, in September 1951. After EC, from 1956 to 1959, he drew ''

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'' adaptations, including '' Ben-Hur'', ''

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'' and Rudyard Kipling's ''

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''. In addition to many contributions to EC's ''Mad'' (1960–1969), Orlando also scripted the '' Little Orphan Annie'' comic strip beginning in 1964. He did covers for ''

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'' and ''New Times'', and his work as an illustrator appeared in '' National Lampoon'',

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and numerous comic books.

''Creepy'' editor

For

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's black-and-white

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magazine ''

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'', debuting in 1964, Orlando was not only an illustrator but also a story editor on early issues. His credit on the first issue masthead read: "Story Ideas: Joe Orlando." He also worked in toy design, packaging and advertising; sales of

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escalated considerably after Orlando drew a series of unusual advertisements visualizing the creatures' enchanted and peaceful undersea kingdom. In 1992, the short-lived live-action television show '' The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys'' with Howie Mandel used special effects make-up designs based on the character concepts created by Orlando for his Sea Monkeys illustrations.

DC Comics

In 1966, Orlando and writer E. Nelson Bridwell created the

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superhero team ''The

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'' in ''

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'' #62 (June 1966). This lighthearted feature would soon receive its own ongoing series. Orlando launched the ''

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'' series with writers Barbara Friedlander and

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in July 1966. After 16 years of freelancing, Orlando was hired in 1968 by

, where he was the editor of a full line of comic books, including '' Adventure Comics'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' The Witching Hour'', also scripting for several of these titles. Orlando coined the names of the ''

Weird War Tales ''Weird War Tales'' was a war comic book title with supernatural overtones published by DC Comics. It was published from September–October 1971 to June 1983. Publication history The original title ran for 12 years and 124 issues. It was ...

'' and ''

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'' titles. While serving as DC's vice president, he guided the company's Special Projects department. This included the creation of art for T-shirts and other licensed products, negotiating with such companies as

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and

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, working with editor

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on ''Looney Tunes Magazine'' and supervising production of trading cards,

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logos, DC character style guides and other items. In the late 1960s, Orlando hired

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artist

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for work on some of DC's horror titles. In 1971, Orlando and DC publisher Carmine Infantino traveled to the Philippines on a recruiting trip for more artists. Alfredo Alcala,

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Steve Gan Steve Gan (born May 22, 1945) is a Chinese-born Filipino comics artist. He is best known for co-creating Panday with Carlo J. Caparas and Marvel Comics' Star-Lord and Skull the Slayer. Biography Steve Gan was born as Santos S. Gan but changed ...

, Ernie Chan, Alex Niño,

Nestor Redondo Nestor P. Redondo (May 4, 1928 – December 30, 1995)Nestor P. Redondo
at the

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were some of the Filipino komik artists who would work for DC, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s. During the 1980s, Orlando began teaching at the

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, continuing as an art instructor there for many years. In 1987, he created an illustration for the supplemental text piece from ''

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'' #5, a page from the comic-within-the-comic, ''Tales of the Black Freighter''. Orlando's contribution was designed as if it were a page from the fake title; the conceit being that Orlando had been the artist for a run of stories from the fictional ''Tales of the Black Freighter'' comic. ''Watchmen'' writer

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chose Orlando because he felt that if pirate stories were popular in the ''Watchmen'' universe, DC editor

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would have lured Orlando into drawing a pirate comic book. The comic-within-a-comic pages were credited to the fictitious artist "Walt Feinberg", and all art attributed to Feinberg was actually drawn by series-artist

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. The Orlando page was the only artwork for the series not by Gibbons. A limited series featuring ''

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'' published by DC in 1988 was written by

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and drawn by Orlando and Dennis Janke. Orlando had a long working association with the prolific letterer

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, roughing out display lettering effects which Oda would finish. During the 1990s, Orlando was pleased to discover that designer-typographer Rick Spanier, working on a

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computer, could create polished Oda-like finishes of Orlando's roughs. These Orlando-Spanier collaborations were printed in DC's ''Superman Style Guide'' and other DC style guides.

Associate publisher of ''Mad''

After the death of ''Mad'' founder-publisher

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in 1992, publishing company/owner

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positioned ''Mad'' under the purview of fellow-publishing-subsidiary DC Comics. After this shift, Orlando became the magazine's Associate Publisher. Concurrently, he was involved in creating exclusive ''Mad'' products for the then-new Warner Brothers Studio Store on Fifth Avenue. Although he retired from DC in 1996, he nevertheless maintained an office at ''Mad'' where he worked on ''Mad'' cover concepts and other projects for the next two years. He illustrated four additional articles for publication in ''Mad'' with the last appearing in the July 1997 issue. At the time of his death in 1998, he was survived by his wife, Karin, and four children.

Reprints

Orlando's artwork for EC Comics has been reprinted extensively by publisher Russ Cochran. Following the 2006 culmination of Cochran's '' Complete EC Library'' reprint series with the EC Picto-Fiction volumes, other EC reprint volumes featuring Orlando illustrations have been published by Steve Geppi's

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in their '' EC Archives'' series.

Awards

He received the

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in 1980 and was chosen for the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2007. His contributions to EC's '' Weird Science'' earned him a ranking in ''

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''s "Sci-Fi Top 100". He appeared in a taped segment on '' Horror Hall of Fame II'', telecast October 17, 1991.

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'' #12–13, 15 (1988) * '' Weird Worlds'' #4 (1973) * ''

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'' #1–2 (1956) * '' Crime Illustrated'' #1 (1955) * ''

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'' #16, 22, 24, 26 (1953–1955) * ''

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'' #9, 12 (1951–1952) * ''

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'' #2, 5 (1955) * ''

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'' #1–9 (1954–1955) * ''

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'' #1, 3–7, 9–10, 12, 16–17 (1952–1954) * ''

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'' #27–30, 35, 37, 39, 46 (1951–1955) * ''

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'' #1 (1955) * ''

Valor Valor, valour, or valorous may mean: * Courage, a similar meaning * Virtue ethics, roughly "courage in defense of a noble cause" Entertainment * Valor (band), a Christian gospel music group * Valor Kand, a member of the band Christian Death * ' ...

'' #3–4 (1955) * ''

Vault of Horror ''The Vault of Horror'' was an American bi-monthly horror comic anthology series published by EC Comics in the early 1950s. Along with ''Tales from the Crypt'' and ''The Haunt of Fear'', it formed a trifecta of popular EC horror anthologies. '' ...

'' #24, 31, 40 (1952–1955) * ''

Weird Fantasy ''Weird Fantasy'' is an American dark fantasy and science fiction anthology comic that was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s. The companion comic for ''Weird Fantasy'' was '' Weird Science''. Over a four-year span, ''Weird Fantasy'' ra ...

'' #9–22 (1951–1953) * '' Weird Science'' #10–22 (1951–1953) * ''

Weird Science-Fantasy ''Weird Science-Fantasy'' was an American science fiction-fantasy anthology comic, that was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s. Over a 14-month span, the comic ran for seven issues, starting in March 1954 with issue #23 and ending with ...

'' #23–29 (1954–1955)

Marvel Comics

* ''Adventure into Mystery'' #5 (1957) * ''Astonishing'' #47, 58, 61 (1956–1957) * ''Battle'' #47 (1956) * ''Battle Action'' #22 (1956) * ''Battle Ground'' #15, 17 (1957) * ''Battlefront'' #47 (1957) * '' Daredevil'' #2–4 (1964) * ''G.I. Tales'' #6 (1957) * ''

Journey into Mystery ''Journey into Mystery'' is an American comic book series initially published by Atlas Comics, then by its successor, Marvel Comics. Initially a horror comics anthology, it changed to giant-monster and science fiction stories in the late 1950s. ...

'' #30, 32, 45 (1956–1957) * '' Journey into Unknown Worlds'' #44, 57 (1956–1957) * '' Marines at War'' #6–7 (1957) * '' Marines in Battle'' #14 (1956) * '' Marvel Tales'' #149, 151, 157 (1956–1957) * ''My Own Romance'' #61 (1958) * ''Mystery Tales'' #51 (1957) * '' Mystic'' #57, 61 (1957) * ''Mystical Tales'' #1–2, 7 (1956–1957) * ''Quick-Trigger Western'' #16 (1957) * ''

Ringo Kid The Ringo Kid is a fictional Western appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. His comic book series was originally released by the company's 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics. A lesser-known character than the company's Kid Colt ...

'' #12 (1956) * ''Six-Gun Western'' #2 (1957) * ''Spellbound'' #25, 28 (1955–1956) * ''

Strange Tales ''Strange Tales'' is a Marvel Comics anthology series. The title was revived in different forms on multiple occasions. Doctor Strange and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. made their debuts in ''Strange Tales''. It was a showcase for the science ...

'' #41, 44, 46, 49, 52 (1955–1956) * ''Strange Tales of the Unusual'' #2, 7 (1956) * ''Tales of Justice'' #65–66 (1957) * ''Uncanny Tales'' #49–50, 53 (1956–1957) * ''War Comics'' #42 (1956) * '' World of Fantasy'' #8, 13–14 (1957–1958) * ''World of Mystery'' #5 (1957)

References

External links

*
"DC Profiles #63: Joe Orlando"
at the Grand Comics Database
Joe Orlando
at Mike's Amazing World of Comics

at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators {{DEFAULTSORT:Orlando, Joe 1927 births 1998 deaths 20th-century American artists American comics artists American illustrators United States Army personnel of World War II American art educators Comic book editors DC Comics people EC Comics Golden Age comics creators High School of Art and Design alumni Inkpot Award winners Italian emigrants to the United States Mad (magazine) people Marvel Comics people School of Visual Arts faculty Silver Age comics creators United States Army soldiers Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame inductees