''Orient Express'' was a monthly comic magazine published in

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from 1982 to 1985.

History and profile

''Orient Express'' was founded in 1982 by Luigi Bernardi and intended to offer to its adult audience only high quality stories by Italian cartoonists. The first issue appeared in June 1982. The magazine was published monthly and featured unreleased stories of both well-known and unpublished characters. The magazine had its headquarters in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

until 1984 when it moved to

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

. Series published by the magazine include '' Lo Sconosciuto'' and ''I Briganti'' by

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, '' Ken Parker'' by

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and Ivo Milazzo, ''

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'' by

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and Giancarlo Alessandrini, ''Max Fridman'' by

Vittorio Giardino Vittorio Giardino (born December 24, 1946) is an Italian comic artist. Biography Giardino was born in Bologna, where he graduated in electrical engineering in 1969. At the age of 30, he decided to leave his job and devote himself to comics. Two ...

, ''Johnny Focus'' by Attilio Micheluzzi, ''Stella Noris'' by Lorena Canossa and

Roberto Baldazzini Roberto Baldazzini (born August 18, 1958) is an Italian illustrator and comics artist who specializes in writing and illustrating black and white and full-color erotic comic books. He received a formal education in commerce, after which he took ...

, '' Big Sleeping'' by Daniele Panebarco. A collection of the magazine's best stories, ''Orient Express Collezione'', was published between June 1985 and February 1986.

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