Occhio Cupo

Occhio Cupo is a character in the comic book created in 1948 by writer Giovanni Luigi Bonelli and illustrator Aurelio Galleppini , the protagonist of the main story, the kind adventure and swashbuckling , of the register fortnightly Serie d'Oro Audace, published by Audace editions . Bonelli considered Occhio Cupo among the most beautiful things he wrote, along with some of his novels.

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, as mentioned earlier, of a Capitan Fortuna adventure, after appropriately fine-tuning Albertarelli's illustrations.