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
Gianni De Luca (27 January 1927 – 6 June 1991) was an Italian comic book artist, illustrator, painter and etcher.
Biography
De Luca was born at Gagliato and moved to Rome to study architecture; however, he soon moved to comics and started his ...
. 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 for his drawings for the first year, the character being defined by the jury "very modern character for graphical creation, language and content".
References
External links
Page at ubcfumetti.com
Italian comics characters
Comics characters introduced in 1970
Spada, Commissario
1970 comics debuts
1982 comics endings
Italian comics titles
Crime comics
Drama comics
Comics about police officers
Fictional Italian police officers
Spada, Commissario
Fictional characters from Milan
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