Franco Cosimo Panini, 1931-2007

Franco Panini, one of the famed Panini brothers who turned a newsstand in Modena into a massive sticker and card producer and newspaper distribution business, which later transmogrified into an even more massive Media Company including an important distributor and maker of comic books, died earlier today. If someone out there can correct my rudimentary knowledge of European comics business figures and complete lack of Italian, I'd appreciate it, but I believe the Panini Brothers sold what we think of as "We distribute Marvel and throw parties that Joe Quesada attends at Angouleme Panini" back in 1989, before it grew into its current comics-major-player status, and the later Mr. Panini became a high-end book publisher with a company of sort of the same name, a company that also included a comics initiative.
 
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