Angel Gabriele was an American comic book artist and publisher, best known for the comic book adaptation of the Space Giants.
14 Facts About Angel Gabriele
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Angel Gabriele was a professional wrestling manager and promoter, renowned for his role as the Dark Angel.
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Angel Gabriele learned the basics of the art trade in the early 1970s from Freas in his Virginia Beach studio.
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In 1978, having relocated to Wabash, Indiana Angel Gabriele acquired merchandising rights to the Space Giants, a US adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's Japanese comic, Magma Taishi.
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In 1981, after a stint with Merrillville, Indiana-based fledgling multicultural comic book company Leader Comics, Angel Gabriele returned to New York City.
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Angel Gabriele drew several covers for DC, including a three-cover run for one of DC's Impact titles, The Web.
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Angel Gabriele produced several books for Boneyard Press, including an adaptation of the stories of Ed Gein, Billy The Kid, and another issue of the Space Giants, which printed a Mark Texeira story originally drawn in 1981.
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In 1996, Angel Gabriele was approached by the California firm LK Management to publish a line of comics, with Angel Gabriele as its executive editor.
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Angel Gabriele attempted to save the fledgling company, but by the end of 1997 Pyramid had ceased, leaving him with twenty-three unpublished titles.
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In 1998, Angel Gabriele was enticed back into professional wrestling, reprising his 1980s television show Powerslam as Powerslam2000, and recruiting Big Bang Comics co-creator Chris Ecker as an announcer.
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Angel Gabriele held a live event at the 1999 Novi, Michigan, Pop Culture Convention with The Iron Sheik in the main event.
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In 2000, Angel Gabriele again withdrew from active involvement in the world of professional wrestling and only made a few more rare appearances at live matches.
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Angel Gabriele claimed that during the 1979 deal, he was granted all rights to the series sans television airings Lakeshore Television Productions, the owners of Space Giants in the US.
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Angel Gabriele collaborated with his friend Richard "Grass" Green, producing Green's 2002 Xal-Kor comic book, released by TwoMorrows Publishing, only months before Green's untimely passing due to lung cancer.