John Celardo
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John Celardo is a comic strip artist who was born on December 27, 1918 on Staten Island, NY. After studying at the Art Students League of New York and the New York School of Industrial Arts he began his professional contributing sports cartoons to Street And Smith. He then drifted into comic books, working among other places at the Eisner-Iger shop, before going freelance. In the early 1950's he succeeded Bob Lubbers as illustrator of the Tarzan Comic Strip, which he continued on until Russ Manning took it over in the 60's. He then succeeded Joe Kubert on Tales of the Green Beret and worked on Buz Sawyer in the 1980's.