Angelo Todaro

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Angelo Raffaele Todaro
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Biographical information
Born: Fragagnano, December 17, 1945
Died:
Nationality: Mini italy.gif Italian
Occupation: Artist
Website: Official website


Angelo Todaro is an Italian artist.

Biography

Born in Fragagnano (Italian Province of Taranto) in 1945, Angelo Raffaele Todaro moved to Rome in the early sixties to attend the Artistic High School. In 1967 he worked for the Fratelli Spada, drawing many stories "Mandrake the Magician" aswell as some "Phantom" stories. Also for Fratelli Spada, he did some episodes of "Rip Kirby" signed under the pseudonym of Al Todd.

After this period, he worked with the Studio Giolitti. The Studio was directed by Alberto Giolitti, an Italian artist that had done comic strips in South America and in the USA, like the well-known "Turok, son of Stone", "Star Trek" and "Gunsmoke", on which Angelo Todaro was in charge of inking.

Angelo Todaro also have worked on comics series as "FBI", "Lasso" and "Buffalo Bill" for the German editor Bastei Verlag. He made a series of albums for the Italian publisher Editore Ediperiodici under the pseudonym Paul Bennett and from the seventies to the nineties drew stories of typical Italian productions "Oltretomba", "Terror", and "Terror Blu".

Fratelli Spada stories by Angelo Todaro

Mandrake 1967

Mandrake 1968

The Phantom 1968

Mandrake 1969

The Phantom 1969

Mandrake 1971

Mandrake 1972

D'Amico, Cambiotti, Casabianca and Lombardi are probably assistants to these stories.

Mandrake 1973

Casabianca and Lombardi are probably assistants to these stories.

The Phantom 1973

Fratelli Spada covers

Mandrake - Albi de Il Vascello - nouvo serie

Mandrake - Mondes Mystérieux

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