L'Avventuroso

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L'Avventuroso
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CategoriesComics magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founded1934
Final issue1943
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]

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History and profile

L'Avventuroso was established in 1934. [3] [4] The magazine was published weekly. [3]

Directed by the Florentine publisher Mario Nerbini, 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

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Leonardo Becciu (1971). Il Fumetto in Italia. G.C. Sansoni.
  2. 1 2 3 Maurice Horn; Luciano Secchi (1978). Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto. Editoriale Corno.
  3. 1 2 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.
  4. Steven Heller (19 July 2012). "Italy's Fumetti: Curiously Sophisticated Pulp Comics". Printmag. Archived from the original on 16 November 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  5. 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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