Trivia

Wrote for Mad Magazine.

Has appeared in every issue of MAD Magazine for the past 50 years and still counting with the December 2021 issue.

Won an Inkpot Award at the 2011 San Diego Comic Con.

Was of Italian descent.

DeBartolo told Game Show Network in 2006 that when Match Game moved its production west to Los Angeles in the 1970s, he stayed in New York and mailed in his questions to the Match Game staff in Los Angeles. The 1973 West Coast-based version ran for nine more years on CBS and in syndication, with DeBartolo as a long-distance contributor; even writing questions for the Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour on NBC and the 1990 revival on ABC. Besides his experience on Match Game, DeBartolo served as creative consultant on other Goodson-Todman game shows, such as Tattletales and What's My Line. In 1971, he was able to induce Mad publisher William M. Gaines to appear on To Tell the Truth as himself. However, all four panelists failed to pick out the real Gaines. After stumping the panel, Gaines jokingly denied knowing DeBartolo. After the episode, panelist Kitty Carlisle told DeBartolo, "I never figured it was him. I mean, look at the way he's dressed. I was looking for someone who ran a very successful magazine, so I thought it couldn't be him!".