Monday, April 6, 2020

European Western Comic Books ~ Albo Furore (The Cisco Kid, The Lone Ranger)


As the cover states, the comic book header presents in the same issue, "The Adventures 4 of the most famous American characters": THE MASKED MAN (The Phantom) by Lee Falk and Wilson McCoy, MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis, José CISCO KID Luis Salinas and JIM DELLA JUNGLA (Jungle Jim) by Paul Norris. These are joined by JOHNNY HAZARD by Frank Robbins (from #8) and the LONE RANGER by Charles Flanders (#20). Between one episode and another, the self-contained Sunday issues by MICHELACCIO (Pete the Tramp) by C. D. Russell and HUBERT by Wingert. Characteristic of the covers (up to #16), were illustrated by Antonio Sciotti, is the group representation of the four main characters on a yellow background, the last 4 numbers each show the indication and image of only one of the 4 characters and precisely: #17 THE MASKED MAN, #18 MANDRAKE, #19 CISCO KID, # JIM OF THE JUNGLE.

For the first numbered 9 books the pages are 32 and the comic book stories begin in the cover II and end in IV, for the books 10-11, the pages are 36 and the comic book stories begin on the cover II and end in IV, for the books from 12 to 20, pages. are 32+ covers.
Images are by Antonio Farina, Editor.


The series was first published on January 18, 1953 and ended with #20 on February 28, 1954.The comic was published by Messaggerie Italiane in Milan, Italy and directed by Sergio Roscani.

Titles
01 (18.10.53) - senza titolo (no title)
02 (25.10.53) - senza titolo (no title)
03 (01.11.53) - senza titolo (no title)
04 (08.11.53) - senza titolo (no title)
05 (15.11.53) - senza titolo (no title)
06 (22.11.53) - senza titolo (no title)
07 (29.11.53) - senza titolo (no title)
08 (06.12.53) - senza titolo (no title)
09 (13.12.53) - senza titolo (no title)
10 (20.12.53) - senza titolo (no title)
11 (27.12.53) - senza titolo (no title)
12 (03.01.54) - senza titolo (no title)
13 (10.01.54) - senza titolo (no title)
14 (17.01.54) - senza titolo (no title)
15 (24.01.54) - senza titolo (no title)
16 (31.01.54) – senza titolo (no title)
17 (07.02.54) - L'uomo mascherato (The Masked Man)
18 (14.02.54) - Mandrake il mago (Mandrake the Magician)
19 (21.02.54) - Cisco kid (Cisco Kid)
20 (28.02.54) - Jim della Jungla (Jungle Jim)

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