VINCE COLLETTA Vincent Joseph Colletta 15 October 1923 –
7 October 1991 (Italy)
Avengers Cover Inks: #6
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Colletta had to work overtime to ink
"the new kid on the block"
George Perez Avengers #142 Dec 1975
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Vince
Colletta entered the comic scene in 1952 inking his own pencils for Better
Comics. Within months he joined Marvel (then Atlas) as an inker and over the
years worked on nearly every Marvel title published. Colletta is regarded as
one of the finest artists of the romance genre but he is probably best known as
one of the core group of inkers to work with Jack Kirby over the years.
Colletta enjoyed a 6 year run with Kirby on The
Mighty Thor and also worked at Charlton, Dell, and Skywald. At DC he rose
to the position of DC’s art director a position he held from 1976 to 1979. A
lot of media coverage has been given to Colletta’s style and there are
polarised opinions on the impact his inking style had on various artists
especially Jack Kirby.
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