CBR

  • One of DC's greatest comic book artists of all-time was Nick Cardy. 1 / 8

  • Besides covers, Cardy was also famous for being the main artist on the original Teen Titans... 2 / 8

  • and for being the artist who launched Aquaman's first solo ongoing series. 3 / 8

  • However, when Cardy broke into comics in the 1940s, he went by his birth name. 4 / 8

  • Nicolas Viscardi was how he was credited throughout World War II and into the 1950s. 5 / 8

  • However, this was a bad time for Italian-Americans, with anti-Axis and anti-Mafia sentiment. 6 / 8

  • Viscardi's checks would be "misspelled" Biscardi or Piscardi, etc. This delayed payments a lot. 7 / 8

  • Ultimately, he dropped the "Vis" and the "I" at the end and became Nick Cardy. 8 / 8