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 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".

Mandrake work by Angelo Todaro

Fratelli Spada stories

# Year Title Pages Note
1 1967 "Pioggia malefica" & "La vittoria di Mandrake" 24 + 24 (online)
2 1967 "Safari mortale" 24 (online)
3 1967 "Il guerriero senza testa" 24 (online)
4 1967 "La regina dei rettili" 24 (online)
5 1967 "Il cammeo stregato" 24 (online)
6 1967 "L'ultimo avvertimento" 24
7 1967 "Un salto nel passato" 24
8 1968 "Il signore del gelo" 24
9 1968 "Le lettere magnetiche" 24
10 1968 "Una morsa di ghiaccio" 24
11 1968 "Tu ucciderai !" 24
12 1968 "Il fantasma della piramide azteca" 24 (online)
13 1968 "I pirati" 24
14 1968 "Un rompicapo da cento milioni" 24
15 1968 "L'iceberg fantasma" 24
16 1968 "Mandrake e il chitarrista beat" 24
17 1968 "L'hobby del miliarderio" 24
18 1968 "Il mistero insolubile" 24 (http://www.angelotodaro.it/product_info.php?products_id=4057 some pages online])
19 1968 "La minaccia di Megafumo" & "Fumo contro Fumo" 24 + 24 (online)
20 1969 "La statuetta di carne" 24 (online), signed TOD
21 1969 "Il nouvo vicino" 24 (online), assistant: Felmang
22 1969 "Lo sterminatore" 24 signed TOD
23 1971 "Suspence a sud-ovest delle Caroline" 26 assistant: Felmang
24 1971 "La mano malefica" 24 signed A. Tod
25 1971 "Viaggio nel XXII secolo" 24
26 1971 "Anonima streghe" 24 (online), signed A. Todaro
27 1971 "La rete del Cobra" 24 signed A. Todaro

Fratelli Spada covers

Mandrake - Albi de Il Vascello - nouvo serie

Editions des Remparts covers

Mandrake - Mondes Mystérieux

External links