L'Audace

L'Audace
Categories Comic magazine
Frequency Weekly
Year founded 1934
Final issue 1944
Language Italian

L'Audace (Italian for "The Bold") was a weekly children and comic magazine published in Italy from 1934 to 1944.

History and profile

Founded by Lotario Vecchi in January 1934, the magazine was published by S.A.E.V, except for a short time in which it was published by Mondadori.[1][2] For its first sixty issues, it did not include comics, but only columns and illustrated short stories and novellas.[1] It had initially a good commercial success, with an average circulation of about 180,000 copies per week.[2] It introduced to the Italian audience several successful American comic series, notably Superman, Tarzan, Brick Bradford, Mandrake the Magician.[1][2][3] It also included several Italian comic series, such as Dick Fulmine and Walter Molino's Capitan Audace.[2][3]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Leonardo Becciu (1971). Il Fumetto in Italia. G.C. Sansoni. pp. 81, 96–97.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Maurice Horn; Luciano Secchi (1978). Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto. Editoriale Corno. pp. 79–80.
  3. 1 2 Gianni Bono (2003). Guida al fumetto italiano. Epierre. pp. 291–299.
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