Don Rico

Donato Francisco Rico II was an American paperback novelist, screenwriter, and comic book writerartist, who cocreated the Marvel Comics characters Jann of the Jungle, with artist Jay Scott Pike, Leopard Girl, with artist Al Hartley, and Lorna the Jungle Girl, with an artist generally considered to be Werner Roth. His pen names include Dan Rico, Donella St. Michaels, Donna Richards, Joseph Milton, and N. Korok.

Don Rico was born in Rochester, New York, the eldest of nine children. His parents were immigrants from Italy father Alessandro was a shoe designer from Celano, Abruzzi, and mother Josephine was from the Basilicata region. At age 12, Rico received a scholarship to study drawing at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. The following year, his family moved to The Bronx, New York City.

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