L'Audace
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| Categories | Comic magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Publisher | S.A.E.V |
| Founder | Lotario Vecchi |
| 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
[edit]Founded by Lotario Vecchi in January 1934,[1] the magazine was published by S.A.E.V, except for a short time in which it was published by Mondadori.[2][3] For its first sixty issues, it did not include comics, but only columns and illustrated short stories and novellas.[2] It had initially a good commercial success, with an average circulation of about 180,000 copies per week.[3] It introduced to the Italian audience several successful American comic series, notably Superman, Tarzan, Brick Bradford, Mandrake the Magician.[2][3][4] It also included several Italian comic series, such as Dick Fulmine and Walter Molino's Capitan Audace.[3][4]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Manuela Di Franco (April 2018). Popular Magazines in Fascist Italy, 1934 – 1943 (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. p. 71. doi:10.17863/CAM.33377.
- ^ a b c Leonardo Becciu (1971). Il Fumetto in Italia. G.C. Sansoni. pp. 81, 96–97.
- ^ a b c d Maurice Horn; Luciano Secchi (1978). Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto (in Italian). Editoriale Corno. pp. 79–80.
- ^ a b Gianni Bono (2003). Guida al fumetto italiano (in Italian). Epierre. pp. 291–299.
- 1934 establishments in Italy
- 1944 disestablishments in Italy
- 1934 comics debuts
- 1944 comics endings
- Defunct children's magazines published in Italy
- Comics magazines published in Italy
- Defunct Italian-language magazines
- Magazines established in 1934
- Magazines disestablished in 1944
- Weekly magazines published in Italy