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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
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. For its first sixty issues, it did not include comics, but only columns and illustrated short stories and novellas. It had initially a good commercial success, with an average circulation of about 180,000 copies per week. It introduced to the Italian audience several successful American comic series, notably Superman, Tarzan, Brick Bradford, Mandrake the Magician. It also included several Italian comic series, such as Dick Fulmine and Walter Molino's Capitan Audace.
See also
Notes
- Manuela Di Franco (April 2018). Popular Magazines in Fascist Italy, 1934 – 1943 (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. p. 71. doi:10.17863/CAM.33377.
- ^ Leonardo Becciu (1971). Il Fumetto in Italia. G.C. Sansoni. pp. 81, 96–97.
- ^ Maurice Horn; Luciano Secchi (1978). Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto (in Italian). Editoriale Corno. pp. 79–80.
- ^ 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