L'inutile sacrificio

After safely dropping off Lola Montero to her fiancee, Furio flies to Rio de Janeiro where he finally takes rest in the hotel. While reading a local newspaper he saw Circus of his friend is in town and decides to drop them a visit.

In September of the year 1648, "La Pellegrina", a Genoese vessel under the command of Captain Fortuna, sails in the southern Pacific towards a destination that only its commander knows.

L'inafferrabile (by G.L. Bonelli, Vittorio Cossio; 325 - 330, 336 - 383).

The scientist, his daughter and the young Claudio Reni are in Himalaya to reach the summit of Everest, but their expedition is soon hampered by the mysterious aircraft equipped with advanced weapons from an unknown city whose leader aspires to conquer the planet. The closing of the weekly at the thirteenth issue abruptly interrupts the series, which remains incomplete.

Long science fiction story written by Gian Luigi Bonelli with a troubled editorial history, see I Conquistatori dello Spazio for more info.

First table appeared on Audace N. 338 on a backcover and in color. It comes out for 41 issues in color, up to N. 378, before it is moved inside and in b/w for another 6 tables, (from N. 379 to N. 384) and concludes in black/red two tone in N. 385, where it is left incomplete. In 1943 the story was reprinted again in the Albo d'Oro Audace, but this time too it is incomplete. Finally, in 1950, the Audace publishing house reissues the Paparella plates in two issues of the Collana Ragno D’oro, setting the story no longer in 1950 but in 1960. With this edition, the story finally finds its conclusion,

Second episode of Orlando l'invincibile, originally published in Audace n.370 - n.384, with last 6 tables (n.379 - n.384) published in color on the backcover. Due to regime restrictions in last 7 tables (n.378 - n.384) there are no longer clouds in the dialogues of the characters, but captions.
Later this episode is reprinted in L'Audace Supplementi Serie V n.6 (also known as Audace 339 bis) in b/w and with captions instead of cloud dialogs (enforced restriction of the regime at the time).

In "Orlando l'invincibile", the myth of the Paladins is revisited by the texts of Gianluigi Bonelli on the basis of the literary inventions of Ariosto and Boiardo, who had sung the exploits of the epic hero in poem form. It tells the story of the valiant paladin of Charlemagne who, for the love of the beautiful Angelica , faces all sorts of adventures against magicians, giants, knights and dragons.

Rino Albertarelli , author of the drawings, can give vent to his graphic talent here, creating a world poised between reality and magic that has no equal in the comics of those years. The great Albertarelli continued the work of Vittorio Cossio (his, in fact, were the drawings of the first part of the story).