John Belfi was an American artist during the the Golden Age of American Comics. Educated at the School of Industrial Arts in New York City, he started his career as an inker for among others Irwin Hasen, Dan Barry, Jack Cole, Lou Fine, Paul Gustavson, Reed Crandall, Lee Elias and Mac Raboy. He was a staff artist at Quality, where he inked several features, such as 'Black Condor', 'Dollman', 'P.I. Boat' and 'The Human Bomb'. He also inked 'Black Cat' and mystery features at Harvey Comics, western features for Hillman, 'Captain Marvel Jr.' for Fawcett, as well as 'Justice Society of America' and 'Green Lantern' at National/DC.
In the late 1940s and 1950s he was present at Lev Gleason, inking crime titles but also doing pencils on 'Buck Roper'. During this period he also penciled horror and romance stories for Magazine Enterprises. During the 1950s Belfi was mainly working for Charlton on 'Racket Squad in Action', 'Spurs Jackson and his Space Vigilantes', 'Strong Bow' and other jungle, crime and space features.
Belfi also worked on syndicated comics. In 1949 and 1950 he assisted Mike Roy on 'The Saint'. In the early 1950s, he did the newspaper strip 'Straight Arrow' in cooperation with Joe Certa and with scripts by Gardner Fox. He has additionally inked some 'Tarzan' and 'Flash Gordon' newspaper strips. In the mid 1960s he was assistant inker on 'Dan Flagg'. John Belfi was also an art teacher.
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