Asso di Picche
Asso di Picche was an Italian comic series featuring an eponymous masked crime fighter who combats an international crime syndicate known as the Band of Panthers. The action occurs all over the world, but chiefly in a dark, melancholic version of San Francisco. It was created in 1945 by Mario Faustinelli, Alberto Ongaro and Hugo Pratt.
Asso di Picche
- Creator
- Hugo Pratt · Fernando Carcupino · Alberto Ongaro
- Date
- 1945
- Language
- Italian
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Asso di Picche was an Italian comic series featuring an eponymous masked crime fighter who combats an international crime syndicate known as the Band of Panthers. The action occurs all over the world, but chiefly in a dark, melancholic version of San Francisco. It was created in 1945 by Mario Faustinelli, Alberto Ongaro and Hugo Pratt.
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Editorial work was by Faustinelli and Ongaro wrote the text, while Pratt did the initial pencil drawings which were later revised in ink by Faustinelli. It was concluded in 1949. Pratt's illustrative style in Asso di Picche has been compared to that of Milton Caniff in Terry and the Pirates (1934). The character itself is thought to have been inspired by both The Phantom (1936) by Lee Falk and Ray Moore and The Spirit (1940) by Will Eisner.
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• Title — Asso di Picche • Creator — Hugo Pratt, Mario Faustinelli, Alberto Ongaro • Status — Concluded • Genre — Crime comics
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The following is established of the heading itself. Associated with Italy. It is also recorded that asso di Picche is recorded from 1945.
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- 1.Pratt, Hugo. Corto Sconto. La guida di Corto Maltese alla Venezia nascosta. Rizzoli Lizard. 32. 2009.
- 2.Marchese, Giovanni. Leggere Hugo Pratt. L'autore di Corto Maltese tra fumetto e letteratura. Tunue. 9–10. 2006.
- 3.Marchese, Giovanni. Leggere Hugo Pratt. L'autore di Corto Maltese tra fumetto e letteratura. Tunue. 10. 2006.
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