Franco Donatelli

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Franco Donatelli (Alessandria, 13 March 1924 – Milano, 11 November 1995) was an Italian comic book artist and illustrator. Donatelli is best known as the regular artist on the Zagor series. [1]

His first work was assisting Mario Faustinelli on Furio Almirante . Following that work, Donatelli took a job in a bank. From 1946 he finally dedicated himself to comics. He drew such comics like Mistero , Silver Scout , Pecos Bill and Radar . Donatelli was working for Sergio Bonelli Editore from the mid 1960s until the 1990s. He illustrated many stories of Zagor from #37 until #375 of regular series. In the 1970s he drew three stories of Mister No .

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  1. ↑ "Franco Donatelli". www.sergiobonelli.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-11-14.


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