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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(unpublished, July 2006)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.