Simone Bianchi, a comic-book artist from Italy, was born on July 10, 1972. Notably, he contributed artwork to issue number 7 of the 2015 Star Wars series published by Marvel Comics. Moreover, he created two variant covers centered around "Vader": one for the inaugural issue of Star Wars, and another for the debut issue of the Darth Vader comic book series.
Among his other works are Shining Knight, Wolverine Vol 2 and Vol 3, Astonishing X-Men by Warren Ellis, Thor: For Asgard, and Thanos Rising by Jason Aaron.
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- Simone Bianchi on Wikipedia
 - Simone Bianchi at the Internet Movie Database
 - Simone Bianchi's Official Website
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