Dino Leonetti

Dino Leonetti
Biographical information
Born:	March 3, 1937 in Florence
Died:	October 24, 2006 in Rome
Nationality:	Italian
Occupation:	Artist
Website:	n/a

Dino Leonetti (1937-2006) was an Italian artist.

Biography

Dino Leonetti attended artschool and later the Accademia di Scenografia which led to his involvement in the world of films.

He turned to drawing comics in 1962, producing episodes of the Italian version of "Mandrake the Magician". Other early strips included "L'Uomo Masherato", "Fantasm" and, with Frank Verola "Demoniak".

He also contributed to British comics, drawing "Dick Turpin" and "Trelawney of the Guards" via Studio Giolitti, before returning to movie work.

In 1974 he introduced the erotic strip 'Maghella', published in Menelik and Epiperiodeci. As his workload expanded, Leonetti set up his own studio where Roberto De Angelis, Giuseppe Barbati, Stefano Andreucci and others got their start. Leonetti also drew episodes of the "Storia di Roma" series and created the series "Flower" and "Marshall Jim" for Corrier Boy. Later produced girls' stories and illustrations for the paperback market.

Fratelli Spada stories by Dino Leonetti

1964-1965

The Phantom

Leonetti's first work for Fratelli Spada was as an assistant to Silio Romagnoli in the earliest stories with the Phantom.

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  "Il rapimento del piccolo Marty" (fr)
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  "I falchi della montagna bianca" (fr)

Romagnoli worked primarily with movies as a production illustrator and storyboard artist, but he also did comics and he is suggested to have drawn seven more stories with the Phantom in the years 1964-1967. The drawings in these stories are a little different and there must have been other assistants than Leonetti involved when these stories were drawn.

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  "Rapina ad alta quota"
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  "L'Avamposto perduto" (fr)
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  "La roccia rilucente" (fr)
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  "Volo 409"
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  "I cacciatori di frodo"
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  "La dea scesa dal cielo" (fr)
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  "Diamanti che scottano"

1967

In 1967, Leonetti started making comics again and he brought Frank Verola with him, and they shared studio for three or four years.

The Phantom and Mandrake

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  "La valanga di pietra" (fr)
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  "Minaccia microscopia"
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  "I cacciatori di teste" (fr)

1968

The Phantom and Mandrake

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  "Requiem per un mago"
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  "L'isola condannata" (fr)
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  "L'orrenda creatura del monte Gluck"
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  "L'angelo nero" (fr)
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  "Un sovrano tranquillo" (fr)
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  "Odissea nana"
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  "Rifiuti dello spazio"
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  "La città proibita" (fr)

1969

The Phantom

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  "Il nido dei falchi neri"