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Giovanni Ticci (born 20 April 1940; age 84) is an Italian comic book artist who is best known as one of the major artists on the series Tex.
He started in the industry in 1956 for Studio D'Ami, with his first publication coming in 1958 when he penciled a story for A Boy in the Far West with inks Franco Bignotti and written by Sergio Bonelli. From 1960 through 1966, he worked for Alberto Giolitti's studio, working on western and science fiction titles, including some work on the Star Trek series for Gold Key Comics, Gunsmoke, and Turok.
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- Gold Key TOS:
- #3: "Invasion of the City Builders"
- #4: "The Peril of Planet Quick Change"
- #5: "The Ghost Planet"
- #7: "The Voodoo Planet"
- #8: "The Youth Trap"
- #9: "The Legacy of Lazarus"
- #10: "Sceptre of the Sun"
- #11: "The Brain Shockers"
- #12: "The Flight of the Buccaneer"
- #13: "Dark Traveler"
- #14: "The Enterprise Mutiny"
- #15: "Museum at the End of Time"
- #17: "The Cosmic Cavemen"
- #18: "The Hijacked Planet"
- #19: "The Haunted Asteroid"
- #20: "A World Gone Mad"
- #35: "The Peril of Planet Quick Change" (reprint of issue #4)
- #37: "The Ghost Planet" (reprint of issue #5)
- #45: "The Voodoo Planet" (reprint of issue #7)