, died in 2000) was a Spanish comic strip

Comic strip

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 artist who lived and worked in Denmark

Denmark

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 during most of his lifetime. He started working with comics when he was in his teens and later studied art in France

France

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. Vallvé moved to Denmark

Denmark

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 in 1960 and, after having been involved in some other comics, made his debut in the Phantom

The Phantom

The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many media, including television, film and video games, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the fictional African country Bengalla.The Phantom is...

during 1972. In the late 1970s and during the 1980s Vallvé became foremost an artist of Phantom stories set in the past. In 1996, Vallvé drew his 116th and last adventure.