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{{Short description|American comic book artist}}
{{Infobox comics creator
| image = Franciscochiaramonte.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Frank Chiaramonte
| birth_name = Francisco Chiaramonte
| birth_date = June 5, 1942
| birth_place = [[Cuba]]
| death_date = January 1983 (aged 40)
| death_place =
| nationality =
| area = [[Inker]], [[penciller]]
| alias = Frank Monte
| notable works = [[Superman]], [[Ghost Rider]], [[Man-Thing]], [[Werewolf by Night]]
}}

'''Francisco Chiaramonte''' (June 5, 1942 – January 28, 1983)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JKGG-32L|title=Francisco Chiaramonte|publisher=United States [[Social Security Death Index]] via [[FamilySearch.org]]|access-date=February 22, 2013|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111206/https://www.familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JKGG-32L|url-status=bot: unknown}}Additional archive on December 4, 2017. No address of record at time of death is listed; state where certificate issued is [[New York (state)|New York]].</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ssdi/doc/ssdi/v1:112DC80DF800094F |title=Francisco Chiaramonte, Social Security Number 097-36-2475|publisher= United States Social Security Death Index via [[GenealogyBank.com]]}}</ref> was an American [[comic book]] [[artist]] best known as an [[inker]] for [[DC Comics]] and [[Marvel Comics]] from 1972 to 1982.

==Biography==
Born in [[Cuba]],<ref name=myheritage>{{cite web|url=https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-407624/frank-chiaramonte-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people| title=Biographical Summaries of Notable People: Frank Chiaramonte| publisher=[[MyHeritage]]| access-date= December 4, 2017|archive-date= December 4, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20171204222741/https://www.myheritage.nl/research/collection-10182/biografische-samenvattingen-van-opmerkelijke-mensen?itemId=407624&action=showRecord|url-status=live}}</ref> Frank Chiaramonte emigrated to the [[United States]] in 1967.<ref name=hughes>{{cite web|last=Hughes |first=Bob |url= http://dccomicsartists.com/superart/BronzeAge.htm |title=Who Drew Superman in the Bronze Age? |publisher=DCComicsArtists.com (fan site) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522122319/http://dccomicsartists.com/superart/BronzeAge.htm |archive-date=May 22, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> Some of his earliest comics-related work in the U.S. was as an inker under artist-packager [[Will Eisner]] and [[penciler]] [[Mike Ploog]] on the military instructional publication ''[[PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly]]''.<ref name="cj267">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060505021358/http://www.tcj.com/267/i_ploog.html|archive-date=May 5, 2006|title=Mike Ploog|publisher=(interview), [[The Comics Journal]]|number=267|date=April–May 2005|url=http://www.tcj.com/267/i_ploog.html|url-status=dead}} Additional, December 26, 2010.</ref> As fellow ''PS'' artist [[Murphy Anderson]] recalled, "Frank had come to work for Will about the same time I did, maybe a month or two later, and was just fresh from Cuba. ... [H]is father was [[Sicily|Sicilian]], but his mother was [[Spanish people|Spanish]], or Cuban. Frank considered himself as [[Italians|Italian]] as he did Cuban. ... Frank worked with me and did most of the tech art."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Anderson|first1= Murphy|first2= R. C. |last2=Harvey| page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=WGVUcoG0Q6UC&dq=%22frank+chiaramonte%22+%22cuba%22&pg=PA114 114]|title=The Life and Art of Murphy Anderson|publisher=[[TwoMorrows Publishing]]|year=2003|location =[[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]], [[North Carolina]]|isbn= 978-1-893905-21-4}}</ref>

When Ploog moved on and began finding freelance work at [[Marvel Comics]], Chiaramonte collaborated with him as inker on several of Ploog's earliest stories, including in ''[[Werewolf by Night]]'' #1-3 (Sept. 1972 - Jan. 1973) and ''[[Marvel Spotlight]]'' #7 (Dec. 1972), featuring [[Ghost Rider]]. He also inked several Ploog stories in the swamp-monster series ''[[Man-Thing]]'' in 1974, and Ploog stories in the black-and-white comics magazine ''[[Planet of the Apes (comics)#Marvel Comics|Planet of the Apes]]'' in 1974 and 1975.

With other pencilers, he inked many stories starring the [[martial artist]] [[superhero]] [[Iron Fist (character)|Iron Fist]], as well as ''[[Amazing Adventures]]'' #18 (May 1973), the debut of the feature "[[Killraven|Killraven, Warrior of the Worlds]]", inking [[Neal Adams]] and [[Howard Chaykin]].<ref name=gcd>[http://www.comics.org/credit/name/frank%20chiaramonte/sort/chrono/ Frank Chiaramonte] and misspelling [http://www.comics.org/credit/name/frank%20chiarmonte/sort/chrono/ "Frank Chiarmonte"] at the [[Grand Comics Database]]</ref>

Chiaramonte moved to [[DC Comics]] to freelance in 1977, beginning with ''[[Action Comics]]'' #475 (Sept. 1977), in which he inked [[Kurt Schaffenberger]] on the lead [[Superman]] story, and [[Win Mortimer]] on the [[Lori Lemaris]] backup. He became [[Curt Swan]]'s regular inker on the sister series ''Superman'' from 1978 through mid-1982. In addition to other Superman work in ''Action Comics'', ''The Superman Family'', ''[[World of Krypton]]'' and related titles, he also inked numerous stories for ''[[The Flash (comic book)|The Flash]]'', ''[[Detective Comics]]'', ''[[The Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' and many other series. His last known work was inking Schaffenberger on the 15-page [[Superboy]] story "Beware the Yellow Peri" in ''The New Adventures of Superboy'' #34 (Oct. 1982).<ref name=gcd />

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.comicbookdb.com/creator.php?ID=1666 Frank Chiaramonte] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922130535/http://www.comicbookdb.com/creator.php?ID=1666 |date=2007-09-22 }} at the Comic Book Database
* [http://www.comics-db.com/comics/search.cgi?query=frank%20chiaramonte&bool=and&substring=1 Frank Chiaramonte]{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at the Big Comic Book Database

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