Bill Fraccio
| Bill Fraccio | |
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| Born | William Fraccio July 9, 1920 |
| Died | October 24, 2005 (aged 85) Mount Vernon, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Penciller |
| Pseudonym(s) | Tony Williamson Tony Williamsune |
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Notable works
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Charlton Comics |
William "Bill" Fraccio (July 9, 1920 – October 24, 2005) was an American comic book artist whose career stretched from the 1940s Golden Age of comic books through 1979, when he turned to producing advertising art and teaching. He is best known for his 23-year run at Charlton Comics, where he illustrated, among many other things, the first two professional stories of future Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Roy Thomas.
The often-uncredited Fraccio and his frequent art partner, inker Tony Tallarico, sometimes used the joint pseudonym Tony Williamson and, later, Tony Williamsune, on stories for Warren Publishing's horror-comics magazines Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella.
Bill Fraccio attended New York City's American School of Design, where classmate Fred Kida introduced him to comic-book art. A lack of published credits in many early comics generally, and by Fraccio in particular, makes credit-confirmation difficult, but Fraccio's reported professional debut was inking a 1940s "Iron Ace" story by another fellow student, Bob Fujitani, in a Hillman Periodicals comic. Fraccio also reportedly contributed to DS Publishing titles including Exposed and Gangsters Can't Win; to the Fawcett Comics feature "Commando Yank" in America's Greatest Comics; and to backup features in Lev Gleason Publications' Daredevil Comics.
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