Gedeone Malagola (

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, July 7, 1924 –

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, September 15, 2008) was a Brazilian comics artist and editor. He started his career in the 1940s, drawing for the newspaper ''A Marmita''. He worked for several comic book publishers until he founded his own, Editora Júpiter. His main works were in the 1960s at GEP (Gráfica Editora Penteado), where he created the superheroes Raio Negro (his best-known character), Hydroman and Homem Lua. In the late 1960s, Malagola wrote unofficial stories of the

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for GEP (the publisher had the characters' rights in Brazil, but the licensed stories were not enough for the number of pages of the Brazilian magazine, so they asked their artists to create - without

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's authorization - stories to fill the space). In 1986, he was awarded the

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, an award that aims to honor artists who have dedicated themselves to

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for at least 25 years.

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