Commissario Spada
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Panel showing Commissario Spada and, on the right, his son Mario.
The Commissario Spada was an Italian comics series published on the Catholic weekly magazine Il Giornalino from 1970 to 1982, created by and Gianni De Luca. Featuring the adventures of a widower commissioner working in the criminal police of Milan, and his son Mario, it is one of the earliest examples of realistic themes in Italian comics.[1] De Luca won the Yellow Kid Award for his drawings for the first year, the character being defined by the jury "very modern character for graphical creation, language and content".[2]
References[]
- ^ Raffaelli, Luca (2005). "Introduction". Il Commissario Spada - Milano Criminale. I Classici del Fumetto - Serie Oro (in Italian). Rome: La Repubblica.
- ^ "Commissario Spada". Retrieved 18 September 2010.
External links[]
- Page at ubcfumetti.com (in Italian)
Categories:
- Italian comics characters
- Comics characters introduced in 1970
- Fictional police officers in comics
- 1970 comics debuts
- 1982 comics endings
- Italian comics titles
- Crime comics
- Drama comics
- Comics about police officers
- Fictional Italian people
- Male characters in comics
- Italian comics stubs