Billy the Kid
An annual published in 1952. It was a single issue published
by Libreria Milone in Turin, Italy presenting Billy the Kid BILLY, a
western character created in 1952 in the wake of the success of the American
film of the same name starring Robert Taylor and appearing on the pages of the
English weekly The Sun. Geoff Campion, who together with Parker is the
leading artist for the Fleetway publishing house, is the graphic designer of
the series. After many issues Billy the Kid is passed on to Harry Bishop
and Don Lawrence. In Italy the character appears in July 1955 in the Dardo
magazine Far West, together with the adventures of Buffalo Bill and
Wild Bill Hickok, also of English production. It is later published by
Editoriale Corno as an appendix to Gordon(4) (1961), in the version by
Ralph Birch and Stan Owen, and by Edizioni Americane in California
(1963), integrating the original plates (partly by Jesus Blasco) with others
created by A. Crespi and De Julio. Milone's volume features both reprints of
the original plates (partly by Campion and partly by Bishop) and the story of Billy’s
childhood, which is unpublished.
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