L'Avventuroso
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Categories | Comics magazine |
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Frequency | Weekly |
Year founded | 1934 |
Final issue | 1943 |
Company | Mondadori |
Country | Italy |
Based in | Milan |
Language | Italian |
L'Avventuroso (Italian for "The Adventurer") was a weekly comic magazine published in Italy from 1934 to 1943. It was the first Italian comics magazine which explicitly aspired to have a more mature audience than infancy, and it is regarded as a magazine which had a key role in the success of comics in Italy.[1][2]
History and profile[]
L'Avventuroso was established in 1934.[3][4] The magazine was published weekly.[3]
Directed by the Florentine publisher , the magazine introduced to the Italian audience several successful American comic series, in the main part originally owned by King Features Syndicate, including Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim, Secret Agent X-9, Radio Patrol, Terry and the Pirates, The Phantom, Red Barry.[1][2] Its average circulation was about 300,000 / 350,000 copies per week, with peaks of over 500,000 copies.[1][2]
L'Avventuroso ceased publication in 1943.[5]
See also[]
- List of magazines published in Italy
Notes[]
- ^ a b c Leonardo Becciu (1971). Il Fumetto in Italia. G.C. Sansoni.
- ^ a b c Maurice Horn; Luciano Secchi (1978). Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto. Editoriale Corno.
- ^ a b Gino Moliterno, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture (PDF). London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-203-74849-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2015.
- ^ Steven Heller (19 July 2012). "Italy's Fumetti: Curiously Sophisticated Pulp Comics". Printmag. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
- ^ Manuela Di Franco (April 2018). Popular Magazines in Fascist Italy, 1934 – 1943 (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.33377.
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