Intrepido (Italian for "Intrepid"), also referred to as L'Intrepido, was a weekly comic magazine published by Casa Editrice Moderna between 1935 and 1998.

Intrepido
CategoriesComic magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founded1935
First issue23 February 1935
Final issueJanuary 1998
CountryItaly
Based inMilan
LanguageItalian

History and profile

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The first issue was published on 23 February 1935.[1][2] It was the first comics magazine to publish only comics by Italian artists; a few foreign comics were introduced in 1936, before disappearing in 1939.[1][2] During the first phase in its history, the magazine got a large success with a series of comics inspired to 1800s feuilleton literature.[1][3] After an interruption in 1943 due to World War II, it resumed its publications in April 1945, then continuing, without interruption, until January 1998.[4] In the 1960s the magazine enjoyed higher levels of circulation reaching 700,000 copies.[5] During its lifetime the magazine produced more than 3,000 issues.[2]

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Leonardo Becciu (1971). Il Fumetto in Italia. G.C. Sansoni. pp. 81, 104–108.
  2. ^ a b c Gianni Bono (2003). Guida al fumetto italiano. Epierre. pp. 1044, 1051.
  3. ^ Franco Fossati (1992). Dizionario Illustrato del Fumetto. Mondadori. p. 132. ISBN 8804355441.
  4. ^ Frank Bramlett; Roy Cook; Aaron Meskin (5 August 2016). The Routledge Companion to Comics. Routledge. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-317-91538-6.
  5. ^ M. Keith Booker (28 October 2014). Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas [4 volumes]: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas. ABC-CLIO. p. 571. ISBN 978-0-313-39751-6.