Alan Ford (comic)

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Alan Ford is an Italian comic series by the author Max Bunker ( Luciano Secchi ) and the illustrator Magnus ( Roberto Raviola ).

The comic has been published since 1969. The theme is the adventures of agents of the secret service in a black humor and satirical way. In addition to Italy, the comic was also very popular in the former Yugoslavia. An edition in France and Brazil was not very successful.

In the first few episodes, the comic focused on the adventures of the agent Alan Ford, who is part of the TNT group in later editions. This consists of discarded agents who have their headquarters in a flower shop in New York. They are incompetent and lazy, but intelligent and shrewd when it comes to their personal interests. The boss is Number One, sitting in a wheelchair, who keeps the money paid by the government to the group for secret missions and only pays the agents starvation wages. Other protagonists are the small and choleric but clever Bob Rock; Sir Oliver, an English snob with a talent for organization; Grunf, a World War II veteran with ingenuity, but whose inventions are life-threatening; Jeremiah, an old hypochondriac who is only supposed to guard the flower shop; The Boss, the right hand man of Number One. This also includes the parrot Clodoveo, the dog Cirano and the fat hamster Squitty.

Three years before the first edition in 1969, Luciano Secchi and Roberto Raviola had the idea for an agent comic as a satire on the adventures of James Bond. Raviola drew the first 75 editions and was then replaced by Paolo Piffarerio in 1975 . In 1983, when the series switched to another publisher, the comic was drawn by Raffaele della Monica and Giuliano Piccinnino. The current draftsman is Dario Perucca with coloring by Omar Pistolato.

The series is still published today in Italy and the former Yugoslav countries.

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