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Dimini

of Gabriele Ferrero
(unpublished)

APPEARED ON THE FIRST NUMBER (April 2, 1941) the magazine for girls Mis Chicas , Anita diminuta (literally "little Anita") is a very cool comic tones. The strong point of the series is the idea of \u200b\u200bthe author, Jesús Blasco, refer to the oral tradition of his country, Spain. In the stories of Anita
, blond orphan who lives in the company of his grandmother and a teddy bear, appear, In fact, all the typical characteristics of fairy tales populated by witches and monsters, fears, real and perceived, his imaginary child.
The result is a dream world, the country Illusion , never dull or frightening, however, in which Anita moves in the company of very special people. His friends are a gnome, the genius of the wood, the clown Payaso , a soldier with a wooden leg and the cat Morronguito . With their help Anita combat mage Caralampio and against the witch Carraspia , always managing to have reason.
individual and that this series, dedicated to a character and readers to "small", both drawn by Jesus Blasco and small size. In this way, the author demonstrates his ability as a miniaturist. ©

image Jesús Blasco

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Kriminal

of Gabriele Ferrero
(unpublished, July 2006)

Italy, August 1964, noir
Luciano Secchi ( Max Bunker ) (lyrics), Roberto Raviola ( Magnus ) (drawings)

WHEN IT COMES OUT NOW, Kriminal is revealed immediately as the series more believable antagonist Diabolik, founder of the comic strip "black", created in 1962 by sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani .
Anthony Logan, the protagonist of the series, witnessing a child at the end of his father, ruined by his business associates. They, unscrupulous people who do not hesitate to appropriate dell'ingente human heritage too, will be the first to fall, years later, in the hands of Kriminal , a mysterious executioner who wears a yellow tights on which is depicted a symbol disturbing: a black skeleton.
Of course, the unique camouflage can not hide that other which Antony Logan, now an adult, he became a ruthless and implacable avenger and cunning thief.
After this debut, the career of the "King of the crime", as defined by its authors, continues in an increasingly bloody and will be full of brutal murders and daring robberies.
During the last decade in which his editorial life, the saga of Kriminal , which is often tinged with elements of horror, yellow and humorous, and develops through events that directly affect the lives of some of the character and supporting cast of great importance. This is the case Lola Hudson, encountered by Anthony during an adventure that leads him into the girls' boarding school where the girl was a guest.
From that fateful meeting between the two comes a feeling of love that will lead them to marry and give birth to an unfortunate heir, Maximilan , destined to die as an infant. The disappearance of the small will have significant implications on the relationship between parents finally decide to part ways.
Other key figures in the series are Gloria Farr, the first mate and later Kriminal girlfriend Patrick Milton, commissioner of Scotland Yard. This is the protagonist of a long hunt for the criminal stopped Only when the last roll of the series, the number 419, Kriminal inghittito disappears from the waves after a gun battle with the same Milton. The series, published dall'Editoiale Horn, cooperate, among others, the writers Erasmo Buzzacchi , Gian Paolo Frascati, Paul Flobo , Luciana Attardo Magrini and Maria Grazia Perini, draftsmen and Raffaele Cormio , Louis Woo, Mark Pini, Giovanni Romanini , Verola and Francesco Paolo Piffarerio .

















BLACK SHADOWS ON THE SCREEN
If the struggle between the cellulose Diabolik and Kriminal , based on sales figures, it is always resolved in favor of the latter on celluloid the "King of the crime" takes a toll, at least on the timing of the exit, the "King of Terror." In 1966, in fact, several months in advance of the film dedicated to the competitor, is distributed in the film circuit Kriminal , a film directed by Umberto Lenzi taken directly from the comic stories of Magnus and Bunker.
The role of the criminal is entrusted to Glenn Saxon, the protagonist in those few years of Italian production, such as the spaghetti western Django shoots first adventure Luanne, the daughter of the virgin forest .
Although the film does not stand out either for originality or beauty, still collecting a decent success, so much so that a year later produced a sequel: The the mark Kriminal , directed by Fernando Cerchio .
Unfortunately, the second film does not stand out for their quality and fleeting season ends and the ill-fated film adaptation of the so-called "comics blacks. " ©

on images Max Bunker.

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The Phantom Warrior

a cool autumn breeze lash the Cape of AMBER-POINT, rippling the calm waters of Lake Ontario . The crisp air, full of sour scent of berries left to decompose on the thorns, he was carrying whirlwinds of leaves torn from the skeletal limbs of the maples and deposited on the liquid surface, as small boats of fire drifting. A canoe that opened the road between mulch and touched the shore. It went down a man with blacks and smooth hair topped by a three-cornered hat, and tan and naked body of an Indian.

The Indian pulled the canoe on dry land and, after having turned over and placed under the oars, he walked along a path that rode through the woods.
To the patriots of Fort Ontario, Shu-Wa-Kee, Sad Owl in the language of the whites, was a wiry. For his people, instead, he looked strong, that befitted his rank sakem of the four tribes.
the passage of the newcomer, the young warriors on guard along the way they left their shelter in the trees and, after bowing his head as a sign of respect, is queued to follow close.
As sakem that it approaches the village, the procession behind him grew thicker, and when he came in sight of the tents, behind him you could count about thirty warriors.

Dum-Maak, in his tent, felt the excitement that preceded the imminent arrival of Shu-Kee-Wa and was crossed by a thrill. He wondered if he really was the sakem be formidable, and if you told that man's eyes could peer so deep inside him to guess his secret.
Actually, at that time would have been capable even a blind man. Dum-Maak was pale and was breathing with pants hubs. He raised a hand before his face and saw that she was trembling. The tremors were extended in a second arm and shoulder and then the rest of the body, uncontrollable.
could not show up around the village in those conditions.
With frantic gestures, raised his leather mat lying in a corner and scratch with your fingers the way, until they found the subject hard and smooth a few inches below the surface.
He took the flask of metal just dug up and magistrate was vented on the cap, which jumped off and fell to the ground. Without bothering to pick it up, took the small container to his mouth and swallowed greedy gulps, accompanied by gurgling sobs of his goiter protruding. The liquid
effect immediately and he felt Dum-Maak be surrounded by a soft and warm feeling of wellbeing. His limbs trembled and stopped breathing became more regular. Took another sip, then picked up the plug, shut the flask and put it back into the pit. Compacts the soil and covered it with the palm of your hand. Finally, lay back on the mat where he had buried his treasure.
He looked around to make sure that those maneuvers were not surprises to foreign eyes, but he was not in the tent. His secret was safe.
lacked only one last trick. He took a bag from a handful of tobacco leaves, put them in his mouth and began to chew up compact to reduce them to a pulp. In this way, his breath would not have betrayed. He spat the bolus and left.

Mai-Rak was in a bad mood, that is worse than usual.
that morning had put the thought on several occasions in Manitou, cursing in his heart. Its people tolerate fools and eccentrics, considering the madness and other imperfections of the mind as gifts from heaven. But to him, in the deformed body, not reserved only disgust and contempt. Almost never openly expressed, of course, but he could see them, so they believe, in the furtive glances and whispered words to its passage, in the crease of a mouth that changes expressions, tone of voice and gestures whenever someone spoke to him .
And even when he was alone and there was no other remember, it was enough to lower his eyes to the ground, its shadow, to have always clear who or what it was.
In his state of mind, announced the arrival of Shu-Wa-Kee was like salt on a wound. Here is a man, he thought, that Manitou had given all his favors tall, graceful, powerful, a leader, admired and respected by his people and feared by all his enemies.
If men like that had not existed, maybe he could get some 'peace of the disfigured ...
gaze slid to the ground and took the shape of grotesque and twisted to his side. All at once, others more slender silhouette and harmony side by side and merged with it in a single dark spot, while the crowd gathered to welcome the arrival of sakem.

Keng-Ti-Sut towered over all other soldiers of the escort. It was massive and muscular, with broad shoulders and powerful, and exceeded his own sakem half a head. In a duel, was convinced that he can get the better of him and, if the opportunity arose, he would not be pulled back. In the four tribes had not yet met a warrior who excel in strength and courage. It would certainly be a worthy sakem, if one day the place was vacant.
Such insights, never fully expressed, humming in a recess of his mind. Perched somewhere and began to take root in more and more depths, waiting to give birth to her dark fruit.

Shu-Wa-Kee stopped. A crowd of women, children and old people looked at him with curiosity, had come almost directly from the Heavenly Meadows. The group backed up on two wings to arrange themselves around the circumference of the plaza, revealing the opposite end to which he was, the hieratic figure of the old chief Nantan, standing outside his tent.
When their eyes met, they nodded almost imperceptibly to the newcomer, a gesture of relief that only intimate Shu-Wa-Kee was able to grasp.
The old man raised his arm outstretched and the palm of his hand in greeting. Then he turned and went into tent. The sakem followed.



"The Phantom Warriors", a story written by Gabriele Ferrero and Alessandro Russo and illustrated by Paul Morisi on Commander Mark number 85, on sale from July 25, 2009.

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