Commissario Spada
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The Commissario Spada was an Italian comics series published on the Catholic weekly magazine Il Giornalino
from 1970 to 1982, created by Gianluigi Gonano and Gianni De Luca
. Featuring the adventures of a widower commissioner working in the criminal police of Milan
, and his son Mario, it is one of the earliest examples of realistic themes in Italian comics. De Luca won the Yellow Kid Award for his drawings for the first year, the character being defined by the jury "very modern character for graphical creation, language and contain".
Il Giornalino
Il Giornalino was an Italian comics magazine published by the Catholic publisher Edizioni San Paolo of Alba, founded in 1924.During its history, the magazine published the Italian translation of numerous American and European comics series, such as Looney Tunes, The Smurfs, Lucky Luke, Popeye,...
from 1970 to 1982, created by Gianluigi Gonano and Gianni De Luca
Gianni De Luca
Gianni De Luca was an Italian comic book artist, illustrator, painter and etcher.-Biography:De Luca was born at Gagliano and moved to Rome to study architecture; however, he soon moved to comics and started his career as comics artists in 1946 for the magazine Il Vittorioso with Anac the Destroyer...
. Featuring the adventures of a widower commissioner working in the criminal police of Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, and his son Mario, it is one of the earliest examples of realistic themes in Italian comics. De Luca won the Yellow Kid Award for his drawings for the first year, the character being defined by the jury "very modern character for graphical creation, language and contain".