Avventura Magazine N. 5

Avventura Magazine - 100 anni di Galep una vita con Tex

Release date
Cover Author
Aurelio Galleppini
Language
Italian
192 pages - mixed - Bonelli format (16 x 21cm)
€ 6,90

It was 1948 when Aurelio Galleppini gave graphic form to two characters born from the imagination of Gianluigi Bonelli: the tough Western hero Tex Willer and the swordsman Occhio Cupo. But that same year, Galep also worked on a comic strip adaptation of The Jungle Book, which unfortunately remained unfinished.

Exactly a century after Galep's birth, this volume retraces his extraordinary career, reproducing the first two issues of Occhio Cupo, one of the most famous episodes of Tex, and the first twelve plates of The Jungle Book, all masterfully illustrated by this undisputed legend of world comics.

Stories

Il libro della jungla

Type
reprint
Status
Complete story
In this issue story begins on page 17 to 28 (12 pages).

Reduction, based on texts by Marcello Serra , of the famous novel by Rudyard Kipling . The story tells the adventures of little Mowgli , raised by animals in the Indian jungle.

The tables of an already fully mature Aurelio Galleppini are of excellent quality . Published on backcover of the "Serie d'Oro Audace", the story has unfortunately remained incomplete.

Il giuramento del forzato

Type
reprint
Status
Complete story
In this issue story begins on page 47 to 62 (16 pages).

The series describes the adventures of the French nobleman Carlo Lebeau who, wrongly accused of murder, is deported to Canada by ship. After managing to escape, he assumes the identity of Occhio Cupo, an enigmatic character but also, at the same time, credible and lifelike, with the strange sound of his battle name matched by the oddity of the costume he wears. The story, set in the area of the Great Lakes, during the war between France and Britain, comes to a happy end when Occhio Cupo succeeds in bringing to justice the person who originally had him arrested, and then gets married to Clara Montcain, the girl who helped him to escape from the ship. This is the outline of the story narrated by G. L. Bonelli, sustained, as always, by the highly expressive artwork of Galleppini. The action then shifts from the Canadian forests to the ocean, thereby allowing the re-utilization, of a Capitan Fortuna adventure, after appropriately fine-tuning Albertarelli's illustrations.

Silver Bell

Type
reprint
Status
Complete story
In this issue story begins on page 67 to 192 (126 pages).
Story kind
Comic Book

Tex and Kit Carson go wild: after the saloon, the flames they set also incinerate Farriman's hotel and ranch, making the unworthy colonel foam with rage. And anger blinds reason: the gang of raiders lost track of the cattle with a clever stratagem... but this time the bandidos find a large cloud of representatives of the Law waiting for them! Months later, in Silver Bell, the two pards give a severe lesson in good manners to a young braggart, Freddy Baker, son of a local squire.