''Amok'' (subtitled "II Gigante Mascherato", "the Masked Giant") is an Italian comic book series created by Cesare Solini and

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Background

The comics started its publications in October 1946, published by Agostino della Casa; the authors, writer Cesare Solini and artist Antonio Canale, signed the comics with the pen names Phil Anderson and Tony Chan. Inspired by '' the Phantom'', it features an

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giant man, born on the Java island, that becomes a masked crimefighter after the kidnapping of his girlfriend.B.P. Boschesi, ''Manuale dei fumetti'', Mondadori, 1976, pp. 20, 110-111 Despite the success obtained, Amok ended its publications in 1948; over the years it was reprinted several times. The series was also published in several foreign countries. In Sweden, the comic was renamed Kilroy when it was first published in 1948. The name was inspired by the popular graffiti phrase Kilroy was here. It was such a success in Sweden that new stories were produced directly for the Swedish market (by artists Rolf Gohs and

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) and it was published until the 1970s.

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Italian comics Italian comics titles Italian comics characters Comics characters introduced in 1946 Comic strip superheroes 1946 comics debuts 1948 comics endings Italian superheroes Fictional Indonesian people Java in fiction Comics set in Indonesia Vigilante characters in comics {{Italy-comics-stub