Procopio (comics)

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Procopio
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Created by Lino Landolfi

Procopio is the title character of an eponymous Italian comic strip series created by Lino Landolfi. [1]

The comic started in 1951 in the comics magazine Il Vittorioso , where it was published until the close of the magazine in the late sixties. [1]

Procopio debuted as a squire of a medieval knight. [2] The author was later able to make it a polyvalent character, who plays many different roles, with the artifice of a modern Procopio, which tells of the adventures of his ancestors (all called Procopio and all with the same characteristics and traits). [2]

In a 1958, in an Italian survey conducted by RAI TV, it resulted as the most popular character of the children's literature and comics. [1]

In 1966, Procopio was protagonist of a series of vinyl records titled Le fiabe di mago Procopio; the same year he was subject of a novel, Procopio di Terracupa, written by the same Landolfi. [1]

Procopio also appeared in a short-living series of B&W animated shorts. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Franco Fossati, I grandi eroi del fumetto, Gramese, 1990, pp.190-191.
  2. 1 2 Arnaldo Della Bruna, Elena Bergadano. La nuvola parlante: nel mondo dei fumetti. Paoline, 1982. p. 71.