# Charles Paris

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{{Short description|American comic book artist (1911–1994)}}
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'''Charles S. Paris''' (September 25, 1911 &ndash; March 19, 1994) was an American [comic book](/source/comic_book) [artist](/source/artist) who predominantly worked as an [inker](/source/inker), mainly for [DC Comics](/source/DC_Comics).

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

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