Virginia "Ginny" Provisiero (May 29, 1923 – May 3, 2010) was an American comics editor. She was one of the main editors for Fawcett Publications.

Early life and career

Virginia Provisiero was born in Corona, New York on May 29, 1923. She started her career with Fawcett Comics in April 1943. She worked alongside other female editors, such as Jane Magill, Barbara Heyman, and Mercedes Shull. She began by re-writing the Spy Smasher stories. She then continued to edit numerous other comic strips until Fawcett ceased publishing comics in 1953. Provisiero then moved from editing comics to editing magazines. Towards the end of her career in editing, she became a copy editor for United Technical Publishing in Garden City, New York.

Virginia Provisiero

Retirement

After working as an editor for about 25 years, she moved to Florida in 1968 and became an insurance agent for almost 20 years. She moved from Tallahassee, Florida to Crestview in 2004. Along with being an editor, she was also an artist, painter, and member of Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church. She died on May 3, 2010, at the age of 86.

Virginia Provisiero

Comics editor

Billy Boyd Western

Golden Arrow

Hopalong Cassidy (84 issues, 1946–1953) Master Comics (133 issues, 1940–1953) Nyoka the Jungle Girl (76 issues, 1945–1953) Rocky Lane Western (55 issues, 1949–1953) Six-Gun Heroes Spy Smasher Tex Ritter Western This Magazine is Haunted (14 issues, 1951–1953) Whiz Comics (155 issues, 1940–1953)

Virginia Provisiero

Magazine editor

Woman's Day

True Confessions

References

Other links

1998 Interview with FCA

Obituary - Northwest Florida Daily News

1923 births

2010 deaths

20th-century American artists

20th-century American writers

American women illustrators

American illustrators

American women artists

American female comics artists

Female comics writers

20th-century American women writers

People from Corona, Queens

21st-century American women