Dick Giordano

The American comics artist Dick Giordano is mainly known for his work on 'Sarge Steel', 'Green Lantern', 'Green Arrow', 'Catwoman' and 'Modesty Blaise'. Giordano majored in illustration and advertising art at the High School of Industrial Art in New York and went to work at Jerry Iger's studio, starting out inking backgrounds. After nine months at Iger, Giordano went freelance.

Soon afterwards, he went to work for Charlton Comics, where he did space adventures, westerns, hot rods, romances, but mostly crime comics. In 1955 he became a staff artist at Charlton in order to maintain his job. A couple of years later he began freelancing again, doing work for both Dell and Charlton. In the years that followed, Giordano worked as an inker and/or penciller for a variety of publishers including DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dell, American Comics, Valiant, Treasure Chest and Junior Life.

At DC, Giordano worked on several 'Batman' spin-off series and the The L.A.W. mini-series. Giordano has acted as Editor-In-Chief for Charlton Comics, during which he oversaw the creation of their most memorable characters including such classics as 'The Blue Beetle' and 'Captain Atom'. Dick Giordano has also been responsible for launching two successful ad-art companies, namely the legendary Continuity Associates (with partner Neal Adams) and Dick-Art, Inc.