Biancaneve
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Biancaneve is an Italian
Italy
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 erotic comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

, created in 1972 by Renzo Barbieri
Renzo Barbieri
Renzo Barbieri was an author and editor of Italian comics and the founder of the publishing house Edifumetto. He was born in Milan, Italy. He wrote "Manual for Playboys" in 1967, a manual that describes where European playboys live, where they have vacancies, the car they use, and other such...

 and Rubino Ventura and illustrated by Leone Frollo
Leone Frollo
Leone Frollo is an Italian comic book artist.Frollo debuted in 1948 with a western called Sui Grandi Laghi . From 1958 to 1968, he worked for London agency Fleetway, doing war stories. After that, until the mid-1980s he did works in several genres, including fantasy and horror, but specially...

. Fairlie Wayne is the real name of the main character.

Overview

The series, published by Edifumetto
Edifumetto
Edifumetto was an Italian publishing house of comics, founded by Renzo Barbieri.A recent example of their publication is Biancaneve by Leone Frollo and Necron by Magnus of 1981.Some of their titles are vampire-themed:...

, was based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White
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, however soon lost most of its connections with the original story. The series chronicles the sexual adventures of the title character in a world of kings and queens and a variety of monsters. Biancaneve remains a virgin under attack during the first 4 issues of the series, however, after losing her virginity in volume 5, she becomes increasingly addicted to sex.

The series has also been published in other countries, like France
France
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, where it was published as Contes malicieux, by Elvifrance, and Brazil
Brazil
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, where it was published as Branquela, by Idéia Editoral (a subsidiary of Editora Três), and Denmark
Denmark
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, where it was published as Snehvide og de 7 frække dværge, by Forlaget Holme (a subsidiary of Interpresse).

In 1982, a motion picture based on Biancaneve, called Biancaneve & Co, was released by Valiant, directed by Mario Bianchi and featuring starlet Michela Miti
Michela Miti
Michela Miti is an Italian actress and Television presenter-Biography:In the year 1979-80 hosted in Italy the first edition on a kid television show 3,2,1... contatto!....

 with Oreste Lionello
Oreste Lionello
Oreste Lionello was an Italian actor and voice dubbing artist. He was well known as Italy's film 'voice' for Woody Allen.-Biography:...

, Gianfranco d'Angelo and Aldo Sambrell
Aldo Sambrell
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. It was released in English as Snow White and 7 Wise Men.

The Biancaneve comic book has lasted for 94 issues, distributed in 4 series:

1st series: 1-2

2nd series: 1-12

3rd series: 1-12

4th series: 1-68.

External links

Adult comics-website with extensive galleries of French and Italian Biancaneve-covers
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