L'Audace
Categories | Comic magazine |
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Frequency | Weekly |
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.[1][2] For its first sixty issues, it did not include comics, but only columns and illustrated short stories and novellas.[1] It had initially a good commercial success, with an average circulation of about 180,000 copies per week.[2] It introduced to the Italian audience several successful American comic series, notably Superman, Tarzan, Brick Bradford, Mandrake the Magician.[1][2][3] It also included several Italian comic series, such as Dick Fulmine and Walter Molino's Capitan Audace.[2][3]
See also
Notes
- Children's magazines published in Italy
- Comics magazines published in Italy
- Italian-language magazines
- Weekly magazines published in Italy
- 1934 establishments in Italy
- 1944 disestablishments in Italy
- 1934 comics debuts
- 1944 comics endings
- Defunct magazines published in Italy
- Magazines established in 1934
- Magazines disestablished in 1944
- Mass media in Italy stubs