Alaska Jim, the hero of the Canadian police, is Captain
Jim Hoover, the hero of a series of popular fiction comic books published in
the 1930s by Heidenau's Verlag Freya for texts by Willi Richard ( Big Ben),
Mark Elling and Liselotte Barthel-Winkler (FL Barwin) with illustrations by
Vogler. In Italy he was translated by Lotario Vecchi between 1936 and 1937 on
the pages of JUMBO as I MISTERI DELL'ALASKA. In 1950, renamed Alaska Gin, it
became a comic book for the publisher Agostino Della Casa, written by Franco
Baglioni and designed by Carlo Cossio. The series combines dramatic elements
from an appendix novel to typical western moments.
Alaska Gin first appeared on July 15, 1950 and was about
the adventures of a Royal Canadian Mountie. The comic series was written by
Franco Baglioni for the drawings of Carlo Cossio. The pages were printed in black and white, and ere published with
shaded shading that tride to simulate the reader. In the appendix the
adventures of ‘Burma’ are concluded and then those of Sitting Bull are resumed.
The second series was the n issued on December 1, 1950,
already announced by the publisher as #10, bears but some #10 were printed with
#1. These copies are very rare with the cover #10 (it is probably the beginning
of circulation) and copies with indicated #1 (followed in circulation).
The entire series began in 1950 and ended in December
1951. The publisher was ADC in Milan, Italy. Reprints began again in 1957 and
1997.
Carlo Cossio was born in Udine, Italy on January 1, 1907.
He was the creator of DICK FULMINE, and is probably the most prolific of all Italian
comic book artists: in his thirty years of activity he draws thousands of comic
books of many different characters. In 1928, encouraged by Bruno Munari, he
draws cartoons with his brother Vittorio, together with whom he made some short
advertising films. He moved into comics and collaborated with Mickey's
Supplement (1935), Il Giornale di Cino and Franco (1936) and Il Saladino
(1937). Nourished by his production for the magazines of Lotario Vecchi he
settles on drawing "Pinocchio" comics by Collodi, then begins the
ALASKA JIM series and many stories published on Jumbo. On Rin-Tin-Tin he
publishes "The Treasure of the Pirate King". On L'Audace he designed
BOMBOLO E STINCHI (1938), as well as his most famous character, DICK FULMINE,
which was later published on Albogiornale and finally in the weekly of the same
name. In 1940, with texts by Gianluigi Bonelli, he designed FURIO ALMlRANTE,
which he then passed on to his brother Vittorio. He created several successful
series: TANKS (1945), FRANCA (1946), KANSAS KID (1948) and the long saga of
BUFALO BILL (1950) published by the Universe Editore ull'Intrepido. Cossio died
in Milan, Italy on October 8, 1964.
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