Angelo Todaro
Angelo Raffaele Todaro | |
Biographical information | |
Born: | Fragagnano, December 17, 1945 |
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Died: | |
Nationality: | 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
1967
Mandrake
1968
Mandrake
"I pirati"
The Phantom
"La venere della giungla"
(online), signed A. Todaro
Interestingly, a panel was censored in this story when it was published in France.
1969
Mandrake
"La statuetta di carne"
(online), signed TOD"Lo sterminatore"
signed TOD
The Phantom
"Smeraldi irraggiungibili"
(online) signed TOD"Una folgore dal cielo"
(online)"Trafficanti a Hong Kong"
(online)
1971
Mandrake
"La mano malefica"
signed A. Tod"Anonima streghe"
(online), signed A. Todaro"La rete del Cobra"
signed A. Todaro
1972
Mandrake
D'Amico, Cambiotti, Casabianca and Lombardi are probably assistants to these stories.
1973
Mandrake
Casabianca and Lombardi are probably assistants to these stories.