Charles S. Paris (September 25, 1911 – March 19, 1994) was an American

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who predominantly worked as an

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, mainly for

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Early life

Paris was born in 1911, and moved to

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in 1934.Biography by

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, in ''Batman Archives'', Volume 3 (

, 1994), p. 224 In Spring 1941, Paris met

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, and soon after began work inking and lettering Lehti's ''

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'' in the pages of ''

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''. From there, Paris started work in the DC 'bullpen', inking characters such as Airwave, and later working on

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and

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, among other characters.

Batman

He worked with

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on the 1943-46

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, inking most of its run. When that strip ended, Paris was employed by

as an inker on a number of Batman comic stories and covers, predominantly inking the work of

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and Dick Sprang. Despite working on Moldoff's pencils for a number of years, the pair never met, Moldoff recalling "The field was very competitive, and you rarely hobnobbed with people, because there was always somebody waiting for your job." Daniels, Les, ''Batman: The Complete History''.

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, 2004. p.88. . During Paris' run on the book the character

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was introduced. In addition to his inking work, Paris penciled two issues of the ''

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'' title - #42 and #46. Paris worked on Batman titles until 1964.

Other work

Paris's last regular assignment from DC was inking the self-titled ''

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'' comic book, for which he inked 15 of the 17 issues between July 1965 and December 1967.ComicBookDb: ''Matamorpho'' (1965)
Accessed May 8, 2008 Outside of the comics field, during the late 1940s and early 1950s, "Paris produced a variety of artwork... including Western genre paintings." He died in 1994 in

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.Index to Comic Art Collection: "Pariah" to "Parizanski"
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References

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