Il Vascello
| Il Vascello | |
 First issue | |
| Country/language: |  Italy / Italian
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|---|---|
| Publishing company: | La Freccia |
| Publishing years: | 1958 + 1959-1961 |
| Issues: | 22 + 65 |
| Format: | b/w, sepia & color |
Issue overview
Regular series
The first issue of this bi-monthly series mainly devoted to "The Phantom (L'uomo mascherato)" is dated February 7, 1958 and the last (#22) December 15, 1958. Issues 11 and 13 were devoted to "Tim Tyler's Luck (Cino e Franco)". The format was 15,5 × 20 cm for generally 32 pages. The price increased from L30 to L60 from issue 7, and went down to L50 from issue 18.
issue 1
issue 2
issue 3
issue 4
issue 5
issue 6
issue 7
issue 8
issue 9
issue 10
issue 11
issue 12
issue 13
issue 14
issue 15
issue 16
issue 17
issue 18
issue 19
issue 20
issue 21
issue 22
In between issue 21 and 22 the publisher started to reprint the first Phantom issues in a new supplement series, "Avventure Americane - Periodico quindicinale - Supplemento economico quindicinale", with price L30. The first 6 issues from the "Il Vascello" series were reprinted in this supplement series, running for 12 issues. The stories with the Phantom continued in the "Avventure Americane" series.
Exstra issues
This series have 4 extra (bis) issues. Two stories were adapted from novels by Giulio Verne, "L'isola misteriosa" and "Un capitano di 15 anni" (18 bis and 20 bis), both extra issues were released the same date as the regular issues 18 and 20. The "Mandrake" issue (22 bis) was released on December 30, 15 days after the regular issue 22. The last exstra issue (24 bis) with the stories La diligenza fantasma & Il pugnale seghettato with "Cisco Kid" by Jose Luis Salinas was released on January 15, 1959. Strangly, there exist no issues 23 and 24 in the regular series.
issue 18 bis
issue 20 bis
issue 24 bis
Second series
The first issue of this specific series is dated April 15, 1959. It ended with the issue #65 dated December 20, 1961. After the first issue devoted to a pirate adventure Italian comics, the second and the fifth issues were mainly devoted to "Mandrake the Magician" who, from issue #7, became the main figure for the series. Enzo Carretti made the covers for issues; 1-4, 13-36 and 41-65, Tullo Palasciano the covers for issue 5 and Onofrio Bramante the covers for issues 7-11.
1959
first issue
issue 3
issue 4
issue 6
issue 11 bis
issue 13 bis
issue 15 bis
issue 17 bis
1960
1961
Note: Extra issues
In this series, there were also some bis (extra) issues, two with Mandrake.
- 11-bis, 48 pgs Morte nell'ombra
- 13-bis, 48 pgs I pindarris vindhya
- 15-bis, 48 pgs I dorados di Pancho Villa
- 17-bis, 44 pgs Comanche
- 21-bis, Numero dopplo Mandrake Il gigante fantasma
- 49-bis, Numero dopplo Mandrake Il gigante fantasma
Note: Supplement issues
In this series, there were also some Supplement issues, one Mandrake. In addition the first four Mandrake issues of the "Super Albo" series also started as supplement albums to "Il Vascello".
- Supplemento al 41, Ben Hur #1
- Supplemento al 41, Super Albo - Mandrake #1
- Supplemento al 43, Mandrake Contro il Cobra
- Supplemento al 45, Super Albo - Mandrake #2
- Supplemento al 49, Super Albo - Mandrake #3
- Supplemento al 52, Ben Hur
- Supplemento al 53, Super Albo - Mandrake #4