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Vincent Joseph Colletta (born October 15, 1923 in Casteldaccia, Sicily; died 1991) was a highly prolific American comic book artist and art director best known as one of industry legend Jack Kirby's frequent inkers during the 1950s-1960s period called the Silver Age of comic books. This included many landmark early issues of Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, and a long, celebrated run on the character Thor in Journey into Mystery and The Mighty Thor. Colletta entered comics in 1952, freelancing first as a penciler, inking his own work, for the publisher Better Comics. The following year he began his decades-long collaboration with Marvel, at the company's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics. Primarily a romance comics artist, on the Atlas titles Love Romances, Lovers, My Own Romance, Stories of Romance, and The Romances of Nurse Helen Grant, Colletta's work also appeared in such genres as jungle adventure (Jungle Action, Jann of the Jungle, Lorna the Jungle Girl) and horror/fantasy (Uncanny... full article at wikipedia

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