page_title: Gaspar Saladino
hierarchical_section_title: Gaspar Saladino
caption_attribution_description: English: Comic book letterer Gaspar Saladino, photographed by Todd Klein in 2014
context_page_description: Gaspar Saladino was an American letterer and logo designer who worked for more than sixty years in the comic book industry, mostly for DC Comics. Eventually Saladino went by one name, "Gaspar," which he wrote in his trademark calligraphy.
  From 1966 to the 1990s he lettered many of the logos, titles, captions and balloons on DC Comics covers. For a period in the 1970s, he was also "page-one letterer" for many Marvel Comics books.
context_section_description: Gaspar Saladino (September 1, 1927 – August 4, 2016) was an American letterer and logo designer who worked for more than sixty years in the comic book industry, mostly for DC Comics. Eventually Saladino went by one name, "Gaspar," which he wrote in his trademark calligraphy.
  From 1966 to the 1990s he lettered many of the logos, titles, captions and balloons on DC Comics covers. For a period in the 1970s, he was also "page-one letterer" for many Marvel Comics books.
caption: Gaspar Saladino, 2014
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