Justiniano (born Josue Rivera) is an American comic book artist. His work includes the ''

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'' feature in the 8-issue '' Countdown'' spin-off ''Countdown to Mystery'' miniseries (with the late writer

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) from

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, '' Evil Ernie'', ''

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'' and ''The Omen'' for Chaos! Comics and ''The Titans'', ''The Flash'', ''Beast Boy'', ''The Human Race'', '' Day of Vengeance'', '' The Creeper'' and '' 52'' for DC. He has worked with writers Brian Pulido,

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, Ben Raab, Bill Willingham and Steve Niles. Justiniano has done artwork on such DC titles as ''The Human Race'', ''Beast Boy'' and ''Day of Vengeance''. He worked on ''Chastity'' and ''The Omen'' at Chaos Comics, as well as some issues of ''Incredible Hulk'' at Marvel. He lives and works in Connecticut.

Bibliography

Comics work (interior pencil art) includes:

DC

*'' 52'' #50, 52 (among other artists) (2007) *''

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'', miniseries, #1-4 (2000) *'' Brave and the Bold'' vol. 2 #31 (along with Chad Hardin) (2010) *'' Countdown to Mystery'', miniseries, #1-4, 6-7 (2007–08) *'' Creeper'', miniseries, #1-3, 6 (2006–07) *'' Day of Vengeance'', miniseries, #1-6 (2005) *''Day of Vengeance:

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Special'' #1 (2006) *'' DCU: Brave New World'' (Creeper) (2006) *''

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'' vol. 5 #4-5 (2010) *'' Flash'' vol. 2 #190, 219 (2002–05) *''Human Race'', miniseries, #2-4, 7 (2005) *'' JLA'' vol. 3, '' JLA: Shogun of Steel'' (2002) *'' Justice Leagues: JLA'' (2001) *''Legends of the

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80-Page Giant'' #2 (Beast Boy) (2000) *''

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'', miniseries, ( Dr. Occult backup stories) #3-4 (2008) *'' Spirit'' #26-28 (2009) *'' Spirit'' vol. 2 #3 (2010) *'' Star-Spangled War Stories'' #1 ( Mademoiselle Marie) (along with Tom Derenick) (2010) *''

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'' vol. 2, ''80-Page Giant'' #3 (2000) *''

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: Beast Boy & Girls'' (2005) *''

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'' #3-4 (1999) *'' Young Justice 80-Page Giant'' #1 (1999)

Marvel

*'' Incredible Hulk'' #434 (1995) *'' What If?'' #69 (1995) *''

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: Alterniverse Visions'' (1996)

Personal life

On May 10, 2011, Justiniano was arrested on charges of first-degree possession of

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, in connection with a July 2010 incident in which he allegedly gave a thumb drive containing child pornography to an employee of a funeral home by mistake. On November 2, 2012, Justiniano pleaded guilty to second-degree possession of child pornography, and was sentenced to a 10-year

suspended sentence A suspended sentence is a sentence on conviction for a criminal offence, the serving of which the court orders to be deferred in order to allow the defendant to perform a period of probation. If the defendant does not break the law during that ...

after he served three years in prison, followed by 10 years probation.

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