Franco Baglioni

Franco Baglioni (born April 17, 1909, in Florence; died 1987) was an Italian comics writer. He began writing for youth periodicals of the Turin publisher SEI around the age of twenty, and after military service and wartime captivity in U.S. prisoner-of-war camps he became active in the postwar Italian adventure-comics scene.

For the Editrice Audace house — the publishing firm of Gianluigi and Tea Bonelli that would later become Sergio Bonelli Editore — Baglioni created the scripts for Frisco Bill (1948), drawn by Guido Zamperoni, and wrote the continuation of Il Giustiziere mascherato. He also scripted the masked-avenger series Amok (1947) for Casa Editrice Juventus and worked on Western material such as El Coyote, sometimes signing with the pen name "Francis Gallangher."