{"id":42898,"date":"2026-10-19T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42898"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:32:41","slug":"sly-stallone-is-cosmo-carboni-from-paradise-alley-by-bill-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42898","title":{"rendered":"Sly Stallone is Cosmo Carboni from “Paradise Alley” by Bill Black!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve known Bill Black for over forty years.\u00a0 Bill began his professional comics career in 1969 illustrating horror stories for Warren Publications\u2019 CREEPY and EERIE magazines.\u00a0 Since then Bill worked in advertising and in film production and illustrated comics for Marvel.<\/p>\n

Bill’s real claim to fame came when he started AC Comics<\/a>, one of the first 5 Independent comic book publishers in America and the only one of that group still in business.\u00a0 Over the years Bill has done it all — writer, penciler, inker, painter, publisher.\u00a0 What an amazing career!<\/p>\n

I’ve been fortunate to know Bill as a friend.\u00a0 I say fortunate because Bill is one of the most positive, fun people I’ve ever met.\u00a0 In 2022, Bill gifted me his take on Sly Stallone as Cosmo Carboni from Paradise Alley<\/em>.\u00a0 We were sitting and talking at his table during a Daytona Beach Comic Convention and he whipped this out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve known Bill Black for over forty years.\u00a0 Bill began his professional comics career in 1969 illustrating horror stories for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,17,56,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-comics","category-movies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42899,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42898\/revisions\/42899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}