European Comic Books - Albo Gigante Prateria

 

Giant Prairie Register

The publisher states this is a single non-periodical issue, but 18 issues are published. The issues have no dates on the covers and present recycled material previously published in Adventure Meravigliose series of the Fumetti Editore of the Condor Albi of the Cecchini Editore and Grand Adventure Albi of the Edizione Ariete. Among the characters Captain West and Dick Saetta by Gianmark and Gino Cossio. Kimmi by Rory Arnold (Arnaldo Rosin), Roger Falco by Enzo Carretti, Silvana (from Jumbo Comics by De Leo), Gordon Schott by Annibale Casabianca, Rick Cheyenne by Pina Segna, Corral Kid. Also transparencies of the Lone Ranger and reprints of various material designed by Pini Segna, Annibale Casabianca and Leone Cimpellin. Similar material can also be found in the similar Albo Texas. The covers are drawn by Gino Cossio and R. Capredoni. From #14 are covers of the previous numbers. A selection of this edition, with identical covers but with fewer pages, is published for the envelope circuit under the generic heading of Supplement to the Cosmo series. Images were provided by Nestore Corti.

The comic book series was first published in 1963 with issue #1 and ending with #18 in 1964. It was published in Milan, Italy by DNO. Each issue contained 96 black and white pages with color cover.

Titles

01 (00.00.63) - “Ombre rosse" (Red Shadows)

02 (00.00.00) - “L'ultima sfida" (The Last Challenge)

03 (00.00.00) - “La notte maledetta” (The Cursed Night)

04 (00.00.00) - “Sentiero di guerra” (Warpath)

05 (00.00.00) - “Apaches” (Apaches)

06 (00.00.00) - “Capitan West” (Captain West)

07 (00.00.00) - "Tomahawk” (Tomahawk)

08 (00.00.00) - "Gli ultimi eroi" (The Last Heroes)

09 (00.00.00) - “Il covo dei banditi” (The Bandits Den)

10 (00.00.00) - “La morte attende” (Death Awaits)

11 (00.00.00) - "Jesse James" (Jesse James)

12 (00.00.00) - “La spia del forte” (The Spy in the Fort)

13 (00.00.00) - “Sangue nella polvere...” (Blood in the Dust)

14 (00.00.00) - “Fiamme all’Ovest” (Flames in the West)

15 (00.00.00) - “La vendetta degli Cheyennes” (Revenge of the Cheyennes)

16 (00.00.00) - “Il pistolero di Oklahoma” (The Oklahoma Gunslinger)

17 (00.00.00) - “I ribelli del Texas” (The Texas Rebels)

18 (00.00.64) - “Sud carica!!!” (The South is Charging)