Jordi Badía Romero (11 November 1938 – 23 February 1984), also known as Jobaro, Jorge or Jorge B. Gálvez, was a Spanish comic artist. He began his career in the 1950s, illustrating Spanish adventure and romance stories, often working with his brother,

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; they signed their joint work "Hnos. Badía" (Badía Brothers). In the 1960s and '70s he worked for British comics companies

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, including girls' comics ''

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'' and '' Spellbound'', illustrating ''Supercats'' for the latter. In the United States he contributed to ''

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'' in the 1970s and ''

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'' in the '80s. In 2019 his work for ''Misty'' was collected in a hardback graphic novel by the

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