Alberto Giolitti

He debuted as artist for Il Vittorioso in the 1940s. After World War II, Giolitti moved to Argentina, where he worked for Editorial Lainez and Columba of Buenos Aires. He obtaining American citizenship in 1954, and in 1960 he returned to Italy with his American wife, Joan, and their young daughter Sheila, from where he continued to collaborate with Western under their Gold Key imprint and with other US and British publishers. Series he worked on in this period include Gold Key Comics' Star Trek and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes. For the same company he drew a King Kong adaptation. In Rome in 1962 he established a studio of comics artists, called Studio Giolitti, managed by his wife Joan, which grew to employ as many as 50 artists and produced art for the European markets, notably England and Germany, in addition to his continuing work for Gold Key in the United States. In 1986 he realized a long science fiction story, "Cinque anni dopo" ("Five Years Later"), and from the late 1980s he finished several stories of Italy's main comics western character, Tex Willer. Giolitti died in Rome.

• Birthplace — Rome • Place of death — Rome • Nationality — Italian (naturalized American) • Art — y • Born — 14 November 1923 • Died — 15 April 1993 • Children — Sheila Giolitti (daughter)