Tarzanetto is the title character of an Italian comic series created by

Antonio Terenghi Antonio Terenghi (31 October 1921 – 26 October 2014) was an Italian comics artist. Born in Alano di Piave, Province of Belluno, to a humble family, Terenghi moved to Milan in his teens, where he started working as an apprentice for a grocer and ...

Background

A parody of

Tarzan Tarzan (John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adv ...

, Tarzanetto was created by Terenghi in 1954, with his stories published in the comics magazine ''Chicchirichì''. A young, bald boy with cigar and bowler hat, Tarzanetto became soon the most popular character of the magazine, as to make the magazine renamed ''Chicchirichì presenta Tarzanetto''. In 1959 the magazine was eventually renamed ''Tarzanetto'' until 1961. After a long hiatus, in 1974 Terenghi reprised the character with new stories published in '' Corriere dei Piccoli''. Following the audience's new interest for the character, in 1975 the comic book ''Tarzanetto'' back on newsstands, published by Edinational and, from 1979 until the definitive end of publications in 1980, by Edizioni Bianconi.

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