I Giganti

I Giganti was a comic series published fortnightly by Fratelli Spada in Italy.

History

A total of 20 issues was published from March 1967 to September 1968.

Issues overview

Regular series

The first series ofI Giganti run for 14 issues. It was divided between "Mandrake" (even numbering) by Lee Falk and Fred Fredericks and "Uomo Mascherato" (uneven numbering) by Lee Falk and Sy Barry. As backup stories the series printed: "Rip Kirby" by Alex Raymond (#4) and by Fred Dickens and John Prentice (#5, #7, #11-#14); "Agente Segreto X-9" (Secret Agent X-9) by Mel Graff (#8, 10); "Cino e Franco" (Tim Tyler's Luck) by Lyman and Bob Young (#6); and "Bat Star" (Brick Bradford) by Paul Norris (#1-#6, #8-#14).

The series was released in color with a 17 x 24 cm format, each issue contents 80 pages. All the covers were by Mario Caria.

Noteworthy, a translated English text from dialogues of the main story was written below the comics panels for the "Mandrake" and "Phantom" stories.

Second serie

In 1968, a second "I Giganti" series was published by the editor. This time featuring comics exclusively inspired from classical books like: "L'ultimo dei Mohicani", "Il corsaro rosso", "Ben-Hur". With art by Spaish artist, including Jaime Forns and A. Guerrero. Some stories, as "I tre moschettieri", was already published by Seat (Assi dell'Avventura from 1966)

The second series run for 6 issues.

Albums

Unsold copies of the Super Albo series were later glued together and given new covers and sold as Super Albo Raccolta- Supplemento Album de I Giganti.

Mandrake in: I Giganti

1967	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
1968	1	2	3	4	5	6

Mandrake Cover Gallery

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  I Giganti #2

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  I Giganti #4

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  I Giganti #6

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  I Giganti #8

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  I Giganti #10

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  I Giganti #12

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  I Giganti #14