{{Short description|American comic book artist (1911–1994)}} {{for|the fictional character|A Charles Paris Mystery}}

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'''Charles S. Paris''' (September 25, 1911 &ndash; March 19, 1994) was an American comic book artist who predominantly worked as an inker, mainly for DC Comics.

==Early life== Paris was born in 1911, and moved to New York City in 1934.<ref name="Archives 3">Biography by Joe Desris, in ''Batman Archives'', Volume 3 (DC Comics, 1994), p. 224 {{ISBN|1-56389-099-2}}</ref> In Spring 1941, Paris met Jack Lehti, and soon after began work inking and lettering Lehti's ''Crimson Avenger'' in the pages of ''Detective Comics''.<ref name="Archives 3" /> From there, Paris started work in the DC 'bullpen', inking characters such as Airwave, and later working on Vigilante and Johnny Quick, among other characters.<ref name="Archives 3" />

==Batman== He worked with Bob Kane on the 1943-46 Batman and Robin newspaper strip, inking most of its run.<ref name="Archives 3" /> When that strip ended, Paris was employed by DC Comics as an inker on a number of Batman comic stories and covers, predominantly inking the work of Sheldon Moldoff and Dick Sprang.<ref name="Archives 3" /> 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."<ref name="Daniels 2004. p.88">Daniels, Les, ''Batman: The Complete History''. Chronicle Books, 2004. p.88. {{ISBN|0-8118-4232-0}}.</ref> During Paris' run on the book the character Batmite was introduced.<ref name="Daniels 2004. p.88" /> In addition to his inking work, Paris penciled two issues of the ''Batman'' title - #42 and #46.

Paris worked on Batman titles until 1964.<ref name="Archives 3" />

==Other work== Paris's last regular assignment from DC was inking the self-titled ''Metamorpho'' comic book, for which he inked 15 of the 17 issues between July 1965 and December 1967.<ref>[http://comicbookdb.com/title.php?ID=9286 ComicBookDb: ''Matamorpho'' (1965)]. Accessed May 8, 2008</ref>

Outside of the comics field, during the late 1940s and early 1950s, "Paris produced a variety of artwork... including Western genre paintings."<ref name="Archives 3" />

He died in 1994 in Arizona.<ref name="Archives 3" /><ref name="YearOfDeath">[http://comics.lib.msu.edu/rri/prri/pari.htm Index to Comic Art Collection: "Pariah" to "Parizanski"]</ref>

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