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'''Salvatore A. "Sal" Trapani''' (April 30, 1927—July 14, 1999)<ref name="lam">((Cite web |title=Sal Trapani |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/trapani_sal.htm |access-date=2023-09-03 |website=lambiek.net |language=en))</ref><ref>((cite journal |last1=Gauthier |first1=Jim |title=Long-Time artist Sal Trapani Dies |journal=Comics Buyer's Guide |date=Aug 13, 1999 |page=8))</ref> was an American [[comic-book]] artist active from the 1940s [[Golden Age of comics]] through the 1960s [[Silver Age of comics|Silver Age]] and into the 1980s. He is best known as a journeyman [[inker]] and occasional [[penciller]] for a variety of comics publishers.

== Biography ==

=== Early life and comics career ===
Sal Trapani was born in [[Brooklyn]], New York City in 1927. He attended the [[Cartoonist and Illustrators School|School of Visual Arts]] and counted school co-founder [[Burne Hogarth]] among his early influences. His earliest recorded comic book credits include short filler pieces in [[Airboy]] Comics in 1949.<ref name="gcd">[https://www.comics.org/issue/7849/#648922] at the [[Grand Comics Database]].</ref>

Through the following decades, Trapani racked up credits on hundreds of comic book stories for [[Key Publications|Gillmor]], [[Charlton Comics|Charlton]], [[Dell Comics|Dell]], [[Gold Key Comics|Gold Key]], [[American Comics Group|ACG]] and others. His most notable credit is as co-creator of the character [[Nukla]].<ref>((cite book |last1=Gill |first1=Joe |last2=Trapani |first2=Sal |title=Nukla #1 |date=October–December 1965 |publisher=Dell Comics))</ref> Trapani replaced character co-creator [[Ramona Fradon]] for an extended run on the superhero title [[Metamorpho]] at [[DC Comics]], beginning in 1966.<ref>((cite web |url=http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2011/10/sal-trapani-metamorpho-swipes.html |title=Sal Trapani Metamorpho Swipes |last=O'Hearn |first=Martin|date=October 22, 2011 |website=Who Created the Comic Books? |publisher= |access-date=March 4, 2019 |quote=))</ref> Trapani also provided inks for many [[Steve Ditko]]-illustrated stories published by Charlton, ACG, and Dell, and regularly used Ditko as one of his many [[Ghostwriter|ghost artists]].<ref>((cite web |url=http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2012/09/another-trapani-ghost-collect-them-all.html |title=Another Trapani Ghost; Collect Them All |last=O'Hearn |first=Martin |date=September 24, 2012 |website=Who Created the Comic Books? |publisher= |access-date=March 4, 2019 |quote=The Dell TV tie-in Hogan's Heroes, like Get Smart, has Steve Ditko on a couple of issues, ghosting for inker Sal Trapani. Ditko's style is so distinctive that any young reader at the time could recognize his work. After his issues, though, Trapani's ghosts are more harder to spot—and at some point, who knows? Trapani may even pencil for himself.))</ref>

Trapani was also a prolific inker for [[Marvel Comics]] in the 1970s, providing embellishments for The Incredible Hulk, The Defenders, Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, and many others. Trapani provided the inks on the Man-Thing story that first introduced [[Howard the Duck]], in [[Adventure into Fear]] #19, written by [[Steve Gerber]] and pencilled by [[Val Mayerik]].

===Animation===

Trapani also worked as a designer and storyboard artist for animated cartoons. In the 1960s he was employed by [[Cambria Productions]] in [[Los Angeles]]. From 1962 to 1964 he is credited as art director on 29 episodes of Cambria's [[Space Angel]] TV show.<ref>((cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6509098/?ref_=nv_sr_2 |title=Sal Trapani |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=[[IMDb]] |publisher=IMDb |access-date=March 3, 2019 |quote=))</ref> The famously low-budget animation process patented by Cambria was basically an animated comic strip with film of actors’ mouths speaking their lines superimposed over the still images. The images were largely created by cartoonist [[Alex Toth]] and inked by Trapani.<ref>((cite magazine |last=Trapani |first=Sal |date=September 1965 |title=Letter from Sal Trapani |magazine=The Comics Reader #41 |publisher=Marvel Mysteries and Comics Minutiae|url=https://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2014/01/more-on-tcr.html |archive-url=https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aJgkRBJBFzE/Uumxkk2GpII/AAAAAAAACKk/Mu0dqjV4Ris/s1600/comicreader41-nukla.jpg |archive-date=January 29, 2014 |access-date=March 4, 2019 ))</ref>

=== Involvement in Old Time Radio Fandom ===
Trapani was a lifelong enthusiast of the [[Golden Age of Radio]] and as a fan and collector of radio dramas he was instrumental in kickstarting the organized fandom for so-called Old Time Radio. He helped to organize one of the first OTR conventions<ref name="otr">((Cite web|url=http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/03/02/the-formation-of-a-bootleg-radio-fan-culture/|title = The Formation of a Bootleg Radio Fan Culture &#124; Antenna))</ref> and gifting 100 radio shows to convention organizer Jay Hickerson: "In 1970, at one of the parties, a guest told me of a friend, Sal Trapani, who had recordings of those radio shows, which intrigued me. I contacted Sal, and we subsequently met. After that initial meeting, Sal gave me 100 shows on 4-1/4 track reels. Thus, my collection of old-time radio shows began."<ref name="tapes">((Cite web|url=http://martingrams.blogspot.ca/2011/10/friends-of-old-time-radio-early-years.html|title = Martin Grams: Friends of Old Time Radio: The Early Years|date = October 21, 2011))</ref> According to brother-in-law [[Dick Giordano]], Trapani also created a radio studio in his garage and produced programs with friends.<ref name="Dick">The Thunder Agents Companion, Jon B. Cooke, TwoMorrows Publishing, 2005, pgs. 99–100.</ref>

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