of Gabriele Ferrero
(unpublished, September 2008)
FROM 30 SEPTEMBER 1948 Tex Willer, the intrepid ranger created by Gian Luigi Bonelli and Aurelio Galleppini (aka Galep ), riding in the green prairies of the West fearless, relentlessly chasing outlaws of every race along dusty tracks, filled with pitfalls.
In these sixty years, thousands of readers, both Italian and foreign, have run at least once in one of his comic adventures.
But if, as the protagonist of the longest running comic western our country, Tex not need any introduction, its size is unknown to most fictional character and at least deserves further investigation.
In 1951, the Audace, publisher of the Bonelli family, placing kiosks in the circuit of a volume of eighty pages in pocket size (12 x 17 cm) pins. The Golden massacre, this is its title, is a novel, the fourth and last written by Gian Luigi Bonelli, the only starring Tex Willer. Bonelli's father
writing is vigorous and complex. The long periods that make up its narrative style, never too mundane or rhetorical, lead the reader directly to the heart of events, adding to the charm of the place a description epic.
massacre Golden , enriched with illustrations and cartoons out of the text (partly derived from the comic episodes have already been published) of Galep, is one of those fantasies that stir the nights of many collectors. In February 1977, the ANAF has published a reprint in the last copies are still available at the association. A second edition, this time graphically renewed and enriched by new drawings of Aldo Di Gennaro, was attached to the number 575 Tex, published in September 2008 to celebrate sixty years of the character and the first centenary of the birth of his literary creator. De
massacre Golden there is also a comic book version, entitled Inferno Robber city. Scripted by the same Bonelli and designed by John Ticci , appeared in issues 108 and 109 of the regular series of Tex, published in October and November 1969.
(image © Sergio Bonelli Editore)
