''L'Audace'' (

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for "The Bold") was a weekly children and comic magazine published in

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from 1934 to 1944.

History and profile

Founded by Lotario Vecchi in January 1934, the magazine was published by S.A.E.V, except for a short time in which it was published by

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. For its first sixty issues, it did not include comics, but only columns and illustrated short stories and

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s. It had initially a good commercial success, with an average circulation of about 180,000 copies per week. It introduced to the Italian audience several successful American comic series, notably

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. It also included several Italian comic series, such as

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and Walter Molino's Capitan Audace.

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