Donato Francisco Rico II (September 26, 1912 – March 27, 1985) was an American

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novelist, screenwriter, wood engraver and comic book writer-artist, who co-created the

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characters the

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with plotter

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and artist

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;

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with artist

Arthur Peddy Arthur F. Peddy
at the

; Leopard Girl with artist

Al Hartley Henry Allan Hartley (October 25, 1921 – May 27, 2003)Henry A. Hartley
at the United States

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with an artist generally considered to be Werner Roth. His pen names include Dan Rico, Donella St. Michaels, Donna Richards, Joseph Milton, and N. Korok.

Biography

Early life and career

Don Rico was born in

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, New York, the eldest of nine children. His parents were emigrants from Italy: Father Alessandro was a shoe designer from

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, and mother Josephine was from the

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region. At age 12, Rico received a scholarship to study drawing at the Memorial Art Gallery of the

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. The following year, his family moved to

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, New York City. At 16, under artist H. J. Glintenkamp, Rico learned to make wood engravings. Prints of his engravings of Depression-era life for the W.P.A. Federal Art Project in the mid-to-late 1930s, under the supervision of

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would eventually become part of the permanent collections of the

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, the

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, and elsewhere. He began his comics career in 1939, during the period fans and historians call the

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, beginning at Victor A. Fox's

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. There he

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and

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the six-page "Flick Falcon" feature in ''Fantastic Comics'' #1 (Dec. 1939). He continued on that feature through issue #8 (July 1940 ), by which time the hero's name and the feature's title had been changed to "Flip Falcon". He drew the features "Blast Bennett" and "Sorceress of Zoom" for Fox's ''Weird Comics'', and did stories for

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's ''Planet Comics'' and ''Fight Comics''.Don Rico
at the

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Beginning with ''

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'' #11 (June 1941), he worked on some of the earliest stories of

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' 1940s

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(unrelated to Marvel Comics'

), helping lay the foundation for a character that would go on to a celebrated run in his own title under

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. His first story for

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, a forerunner of

, was an eight-page backup feature starring a hero called the Secret Stamp in ''

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'' #13 (April 1942); another, uncredited adventure of the Secret Stamp was published in ''

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'' #7 (Feb. 1943). Other early work for the company included a story of the

the Terror and co-creating, with an unknown writer, the obscure Jekyll-and-Hyde-like feature "Gary Gaunt", both in ''

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'' #9 (May 1942). After inking

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on a Captain America story in ''

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'' #5 (Summer 1942), Rico soon became one of the regular pencilers for that cornerstone hero of the publisher's, starting with the 16-page "The Mikado's Super Shell" in ''Captain America Comics'' #18 (Sept. 1942). By the following year, Rico was variously writing/drawing stories featuring such characters as the

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, the Whizzer, the

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, the

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, and the Young Allies. Timely artist Allen Bellman recalled in 2005, "Don and some of the other artists didn't bother with rtist

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, who was the unofficial bullpen director. Rico was the ringleader of this 'ignore Shores' group. He was always causing small problems in the office and publisher artinGoodman knew this, and hence the name 'Rat Rico' he referred to Don with." Artist Gil Kane recalled that, "Timely was my second job after MLJ. ... Stan eewas the editor at 19 years old but all the day-to-day managing of the work was done by Don Rico, who also did most of the hiring and firing." Other credits during the 1940s include

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' '' America's Greatest Comics'' and ''

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''; MLJ's ''

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'' and the dual-hero '' Shield-Wizard Comics''; Lev Gleason's ''

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'' and ''Captain Battle Junior'';

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' '' National Comics'', and ''

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''; and Et-Es-Go Magazines' ''Terrific Comics''. From 1946 to 1948, he worked primarily for

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, on that publisher's '' Blue Bolt Comics'' and '' Target Comics''.

1950s

In 1949, Rico began working again for Timely Comics as a writer-editor as the company was transitioning to become Marvel's 1950s predecessor,

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. Around this time, he became one of at least five staff writers (officially titled editors) there under editor-in-chief

, along with

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Ernie Hart Ernest Huntley Hart
at the

, Paul S. Newman,

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Social Sec ...

, and, doing teen-humor comics, future '' Mad''

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. Among the Atlas titles for which Rico wrote are the

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series ''Adventures into Terror'', ''Astonishing'', '' Marvel Tales'', ''Suspense'' and ''

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''. He co-created

with artist

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in ''

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'' #1 (Sept. 1954), and co-created Leopard Girl with artist

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at the United States

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'' #1 (Oct. 1954), and wrote virtually every story and feature in those two titles. Marvel Comics reprinted several of his jungle stories in the 1970s. Rico briefly returned to comic art as an illustrator on the Atlas series ''Bible Tales for Young Folk''. His last published story for Atlas was the four-page anthological

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tale "The Bushwhacker", with artist

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, in '' Rawhide Kid'' #16 (Sept. 1957). In 1958, Rico moved to Los Angeles, where he began writing for film and television.

1960s

In California, Rico began writing

novels, eventually penning more than 60 for a variety of publishers including

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and Paperback Library. His pseudonyms included Donna Richards, Joseph Milton, and Donella St. Michaels. Rico wrote only thrice for Marvel during the

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in the 1960s, with a

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story in ''Strange Tales'' #129 (Feb. 1965), and scripting two

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plots by

in '' Tales of Suspense'' #52–53 (April–May 1964), the former introducing the Black Widow. On both, he used the pseudonym N. Korok, later explaining he hadn't wanted his paperback-book publisher to know he was taking on lower-paying comic-book work.

Later career

Rico co-wrote, with Don Henderson, the story basis for the

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ss horror movie ''Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary'' (U.S.-

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, 1975), by director Juan Lopez Moctezuma and scripter Malcolm Marmorstein. He also drew movie and television production illustrations, including two years at

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drawing

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s for TV shows. In 1977, Rico,

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, and television and comic-book writer

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co-founded the

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(CAPS). Rico also worked with Aragones as scripter for the artist-plotter's female-detective strip "T.C. Mars" in

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's magazine ''Sojourn''. Also in 1977, Rico drew a six-page chapter starring

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in the

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-superhero flashback series '' The Invaders Annual'' #1. In 1977, Rico drew the cover and wrote an introduction for a 128-page anthology of black-and-white reprints, ''The Magnificent Superheroes of Comics'' /nowiki>sic.html" ;"title="sic.html" ;"title="/nowiki>sic">/nowiki>sic">sic.html" ;"title="/nowiki>sic">/nowiki>sic/nowiki> ''Golden Age'' #1 (Vintage Features). During the mid-1970, Rico taught a college course on comic books at UCLA, titled "The Theory, History and Technique of Comic Books". In the early 1980s, he taught drawing at Cal State Northridge.

Death

Rico lived in Los Angeles at the time of his death in 1985. He was survived by his second wife, Michele Hart-Rico; his son, Donato "Buz" Rico III; and his daughter, Dianne Marie Rico Tran (1933–2007).

Awards

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at the 1976

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.Inkpot Award
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- CAPS presents the Don Rico Award, named in his honor that is awarded for an organization member who goes above and beyond to support CAPS. *In 2022, Rico was chosen as one of two winners of the

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.Bob Bolling, Don Rico to Receive 2022 Bill Finger Award
by

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, at File770; published June 25, 2022; retrieved June 25, 2022

Paperback novels

* ''Nikki'' ( Midwood Books, 1963) * ''The Unmarried Ones'' (Beacon Signal Sixty, 1964) * ''The Sad Gay Life'' (Lancer Books imprint Domino Books, 1964; under pseudonym Donna Richards) * ''The Odd World'' (Domino Books, 1965; under pseudonym Donna Richards) * ''The Last of the Breed'' (Lancer/Magnum, 1965) * ''The Big Blue Death'' (Lancer Books, 1965; under publishing-house pseudonym Joseph Milton) * ''Lorelei'' (

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, 1966) * ''The Prisoner'' (Lancer Books, 1966; under pseudonym Donella St. Michaels) * ''The Girls of Sunset'' (Lancer Books, 1966) * ''Counterspy'' (Lancer Books, 1966) * ''Nightmare of Eyes'' (Lancer Books, 1967) * ''The Man From Pansy'' (Lancer Books, 1967; Buzz Cardigan series) * ''The Daisy Dilemma'' (Lancer Books, 1967; Buzz Cardigan series) * ''The Passion Flower Puzzle'' (Lancer Books, 1968, Buzz Cardigan series) * ''Casey Grant Caper #1: The Ring-A-Ding Girl'' (Paperback Library, 1969) * ''Casey Grant Caper #2: the Swinging Virgin'' (Paperback Library, 1969) * ''Casey Grant Caper #3: So Sweet, So Deadly'' (Paperback Library, 1970) * ''The House of Girls'' (New English Library, 1969) ALSO * ''Copyright: How to Register Your Copyright and Introduction to New and Historical Copyright Law'' by Walter E. Hurst, illustrated by Don Rico (Seven Arts Press, 1977)

References

External links

Rico, Don
at The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators

from the original on March 3, 2012 (requires scrolldown).

at the

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, . * *
Sorceress of Zoom
at

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Archived
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