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Encyclopedia > Charles Biro

Charles Biro is an American comic book writer, chiefly known for creating the wartime comic Airboy. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Airboy was a wartime comic book created by Charles Biro, that was first published by Hillman Periodicals in 1942. ...


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Biro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (122 words)
Biro is a common term for a ballpoint pen, (though not in American English).
Other uses of the term or name biro include:
Biromash, a term used for a ballpoint pen drawing.
Hernando: New fire leader brings dubious history (1154 words)
When the deadline passed, Biro and Charles D. Raborn, a former Pennsylvania firefighter who has lived in the county for one year, were the only candidates for the three vacant seats.
Biro was a volunteer firefighter before being hired by the fire district in 1976.
Biro was repeatedly cited for carelessness - once when a department vehicle he had just parked rolled into a firehouse, causing $120 in damage, and again when he left a $2,500 portable radio behind at an ice cream store.
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