Angelo Todaro
| Angelo Raffaele Todaro | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Born: | Fragagnano, December 17, 1945 |
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| Died: | |
| Nationality: |  Italian
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| 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".
Fratelli Spada stories by Angelo Todaro
Mandrake 1967
| # | Year | Title | Pages | Note |
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| 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 |
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Mandrake 1968
| # | Year | Title | Pages | Note |
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| 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 | (some pages online) |
| 19 | 1968 | "La minaccia di Megafumo" & "Fumo contro Fumo" | 24 + 24 | (online) |
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The Phantom 1968
| # | Year | Title | Pages | Note |
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| A | 1968 | "La Venere della giungla" | 24 | signed |
Mandrake 1969
| # | Year | Title | Pages | Note |
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| 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 |
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The Phantom 1969
| # | Year | Title | Pages | Note |
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| B | 1969 | "Smeraldi Irraggiungibili" !! 24 | assistant: Felmang | |
| C | 1969 | "Una folgore dal cielo" | 8 | |
| D | 1969 | "Trafficanti a Hong Kong" | 24 |
Mandrake 1971
| # | Year | Title | Pages | Note |
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| 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 |
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The Phantom 1973
| # | Year | Title | Pages | Note |
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| E | 1973 | "Attentato all'ombra" | 16 | |
| F | 1973 | "Lotta disperata" | 16 | assistant: Athos Cozzi |
