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Gaspar Saladino

Gaspar Saladino

Gaspar Saladino is a letterer, primarily for DC Comics

Name:
Gaspar Saladino
Aliases:
  • L. P. Gregory
Birth date:
November 1st, 1926
Home town:
Brooklyn, New York
Country:
United States
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Gaspar Saladino has been recognized as one of the greatest letterers of all time and he has well over 3,000 issues to prove it. He was awarded the Shazam Award for Best Letterer in 1971, and 1973.

His career began as a letterer in 1951 when he left the fashion industry where he worked as an illustrator. He continued lettering in the comics industry at least until 2002. Gaspar did work for DC and Marvel. He is well known for his work as the "page one letterer" for many books. He did the titles, lettering, and sound effects for all DC covers during Carmine Infantino's run as editorial director at that company.

Gaspar Saladino designed the logos for the Swamp Thing, Adam Strange, House of Mystery, House of Secrets, Unknown Soldier, Vigilante and the Metal Men among others. He did work in Tales to Astonish, Flash, Iron Man, Arkham Asylum, Avengers , and many many more. He also revamped the Green Lantern logo to make it more fresh and current.

One of the biggest things he got to work on in his career was Arkham Asylum. He created a different font for every character in the book.

Aliases:

L.P. Gregory

Gaspar

Issues

May 1947

June 1947

August 1947

October 1948

April 1952

September 1953

April 1954

June 1956

January 1957

March 1957

October 1957

April 1958

July 1958

August 1958

December 1958

March 1959

July 1959

July 1960

August 1960

October 1960

Volumes

1937

1938

1939

1940

1941

1949

1954

1955

1956

1958

1959

1960

1961

1963

1964

1966

Characters