Virginia Provisiero

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.

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.

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)

Magazine editor

 * Woman's Day
 * True Confessions

Other links

 * 1998 Interview with FCA
 * Obituary - Northwest Florida Daily News