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Billy Rock

This 1959 comic strip featured  the explorer-adventurer Billy Rock who vaguely resembled Rock Hudson who struggled with the secret sect of the Golden Spider (a tribute to the Hong of the Dragon by GIM TORO). Stories by Renzo Barbieri; with drawings by Sandro Angiolini. Issue #1 was released on July 5, 1959 and ended the following year with #48 on May 29, 1960. It was published by CED Publishing House/ Dardo Publishing House in Milan, Italy under the direction of Franco Baglioni. Each issued contained 32 black and white pages with color covers/

Titles

01 (05.07.59) - “Il ragno d’oro” (The Golden Spider)
02 (12.07.59) - “La fossa degli iguana” (The Iguana Pit)
03 (19.07.59) - “La città ignota” (The Unknown City)
04 (26.07.59) - “Fuga perigliosa” (Perilous Escape)
05 (02.08.59) - “La liberazione di Diana” (Diana’s Liberation)
06 (09.08.59) - “Il ragno al contrattacco” (The Spider’s Counterattack)
07 (16.08.59) - “Scampato pericolo” (Averted Danger)
08 (23.08.59) - “Battaglia alla fattoria” (Battle on the Farm)
09 (30.08.59) - “La caverna che canta” (The Cave That Sings)
10 (06.09.59) - “Il vortice del terrore” (The Vortex of Terror)
11 (13.09.59) - “Il diavolo bianco” (The White Devil)
12 (20.09.59) - “Gli uomini pesce” (The Fish Men)
13 (27.09.59) - “Lo stregone della valle morta” (The Sorcerer of the Dead Valley)
14 (04.10.59) - “Il rapimento di Billy Rock” (The Kidnapping of Billy Rock)
15 (11.10.59) - “L’inseguimento nel canyon” (The Pursuit in the Canyon)
16 (18.10.59) - “Verso l’ignoto” (Towards the Unknown)
17 (25.10.59) - “Agguato nel deserto” (Ambush in the Desert)
18 (01.11.59) - “La battaglia di Comanche City” (The Battle of Comanche City)
19 (08.11.59) - “Il Teocall misterioso” (The Mysterious Teocall)
20 (15.11.59) - “La capitale segreta” (The Secret Capital)
21 (22.11.59) - “Braccati” (Hunted)
22 (29.11.59) - “L’inafferrabile Nino” (The Elusive Nino)
23 (06.12.59) - “Nei meandri del tempio” (In the Meanders of the Temple)
24 (13.12.59) - “Il Dio Sole vivente” (The Living Sun God)
25 (20.12.59) - “Il tradimento di colui che sa” (The Betrayal of the One Who Knows)
26 (27.12.59) - “L’infame tortura” (The Infamous Torture)
27 (03.01.60) - “Il Nino alla riscossa” (Il Nino to the Rescue)
28 (10.01.60) - “La riscossa del Nino” (The Rescue of El Nino)
29 (17.01.60) - “La piovra vegetale” (The Vegetable Octopus)
30 (24.01.60) - “Guatimozin il solitario” (Guatimozin the Lonely)
31 (31.01.60) - “Attimi disperati” (Desperate Moments)
32 (02.02.60) - “Il fiume sotterraneo” (The Underground River)
33 (14.02.60) - “Il genietto dell’Arroyo Nigro” (The Little Genius of Arroyo Negro)
34 (21.02.60) - “Assalto al treno” (Assaulr on the Train)
35 (28.02.60) - “Tafferuglio nel saloon” (Scuffling in the Saloon)
37 (13.03.60) - “La botola misteriosa” (The Mysterious Trap Door)
38 (20.03.60) - “Il bisonte bianco” (The White Bison)
39 (27.03.60) - “L’assalto al tempio” (The Assault of the Temple)
40 (03.04.60) - “Lotta drammatica” (Dramatic Fight)
41 (10.04.60) - “La morte di Guatimozin” (The Death of Guatimozin)
42 (17.04.60) - “Agguato nella foresta” (Ambush in the Forest)
43 (24.04.60) - “Il resuscitato” (The Resurrected)
44 (01.05.60) - “L’anello del potere” (The Ring of Power)
45 (08.05.60) - “La tomba di cemento” (The Concrete Tomb)
46 (15.05.60) - “Notte tra i pueblos” (Night Among the Pueblos)
47 (22.05.60) - “Segnali di fumo “ (Smoke Signals)
48 (29.05.60) - “Il picco dell’avvoltoio” (The Vulture’s Peak)