Romeo Tanghal is a Filipino

Filipino people

The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

 comic book artist

Comic Book Artist

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 who has worked primarily as an inker

Inker

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. He became well known in the industry in the 1980s for his work on DC Comics

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' The New Teen Titans.

Career

Romeo Tanghal was born and raised in the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. A self-taught artist, he started doing comics illustrations after graduating high school. He briefly worked with various local publications before emigrating to the United States in 1976. He started working for DC Comics drawing short stories for House of Mystery

House of Mystery

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, House of Secrets, and Weird War Tales

Weird War Tales

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. He later became the inker on such features as Super Friends, "Scalphunter

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" in Weird Western Tales

Weird Western Tales

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, and "Gravedigger

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" in Men of War. In 1980, Tanghal became the inker of George Pérez

George Pérez

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's penciled artwork on The New Teen Titans. He began working for Marvel Comics

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as well in 1986.