Collana del Tex I Serie N. 4
La Mano Rossa
La Mano Rossa story begins in this number and extends over five numbers for a total of 157 strips, equal to approximately 52 pages of the Bonelli monthly register. Unlike the previous adventure the conclusion of this story does not coincide with the end of the fifth number, the last three strips are in fact part of the next story, entitled "El Diablo". Starting from this episode a "continuity" is triggered which will be abandoned only later.
The caption of the first cartoon begins with these now famous words:
"In the fiery afternoon of a day in July 1898 ..."
According to this sentence, the subsequent adventures of that Tex still very young, Sergio Bonelli recalls, should have taken place in the 1900s, perhaps with the four pards involved in the First World War. This is certainly the most famous of the mistakes made by that improvised calligrapher who answered the name of Gino Rognoni, who would have been wrong in transcribing the right date, or a more reasonable 1858. They were heroic times, the publisher apologizes, and no one imagined that the saga of Tex would have been so long, and that the character would have become so "important" that he would one day be called to excuse himself for the mistakes of his youth.