Timber Bill

THE STRONG BRUTE

He will have the honor of the title on the cover, in a book ("Timber Bill", in fact) which will also see his end. No small honor, for a "marginal" villain who we met for the first time in issue #14 and who then seemed to have fallen into oblivion. But the saga of the Spirit with the Hatchet is also made up of this, of minor characters who reappear, for better or for worse, to give the sense, precisely, of a single story, and not of many disconnected stories. Timber Bill is also the prototype of the "strong brute", that is, of brute strength, a "myth" which, from those wild times, unfortunately still survives today. Luckily there was, and is, also the intelligent force