Sal Trapani

Salvatore "Sal" A.Trapani (1927-1999) was an American comics artist.

Biography

Sal Trapani was born on April 30, 1927. He was the brother-in-law of the famous comic-book artist Dick Giordano.

He began his career for publishers Hillman & Gilmor in 1949. At the beginning of the fifties, he drew some "Classics Illustrated" stories for the Gilberton Company. He worked for Charlton Comics in 1954 and became an artistic director for Cambia animation Studios from 1961 to 1965 while drew on many horror and thrilling stories for American Comic Group in the sixties. He went on working for DC Comics ("Teen Titans"), Warren publications ("Eerie", "Creepy"), Dell ("Dr. Who") and Gold Key ("Boris Karloff","Twilight Zone").

Always for Charlton Comics he worked on The Phantom issue #30 in a story entitled "The Secret of the Golden Ransom" released in February 1969.

In 1972, he inked various Marvel comics-books ("The Incrdible Hulk", "Ghost Rider", "Master of Kung-Fu", "Star Trek") before to come back at DC Comics ("Doom Patrol","Green Lantern"). He also worked on "Superman" in assisting José Delbo for the dailies strips published in the eighties. He died on July 14, 1999.

Phantom work by Sal Trapani

Stories

Charlton Comics story

#	Title	Writer	Artist
1	"The Secret of the Golden Ransom"	?	Trapani