Romano Felmang is an Italian

Italy

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 artist

Artist

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 best known for his illustrations of American

United States

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 comic strip

Comic strip

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 characters such as The Phantom

The Phantom

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 and Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon

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. His first work, in 1962, was a Phantom story titled Kaniska, which was never published in its original form, but which gained him entry to the SPADA brothers, neighbors who published Italian comic books. He was drafted, however, before any of his stories could be published. In 1966, the SPADA brothers published his Phantom story Raiders of the Great King Tomb, and he has since drawn a large number of stories for them and for other publishers, featuring The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Rip Kirby

Rip Kirby

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, and Secret Agent X-9

Secret Agent X-9

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. Since 1987, he has produced many stories for SEMIC International. His work has been published in Italy, France

France

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, Norway

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, Denmark

Denmark

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, Hungary

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, and Czechoslovakia

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, and in the United States

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 he has drawn covers for Comics Revue

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. He married in 1980, he is the father of twins, a son and a daughter who are totally uninterested in comic books.

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