Benito Jacovitti
Benito Jacovitti (March 19, 1923 - December 3, 1997) was born in Termoli, Italy. In 1956 he began working for the newspaper Il Giormo, where Cocco Bill was born. Ten years later he join Il Corriere dei Piccoli.
Cocco Bill #12:
"Cocco Bill nell'aldiquà"
Format:
© 1964. Signature mostly in the beginning of each page [JAC 63/64]. Page numbering with bones. 21
pgs (last page only three strips).
Reprint changes (page altering):
YSL: Part 1 (11 pgs): Every single frame redrawn higher (mostly the upper part for the hats). Part 2 (5 pgs): Page numebering with bones starts from 1 (the original bone numbering erased). Every single frame redrawn higher (mostly the upper part for the hats). Logo added on the first page, which pushes each last strip to the next page and that makes all pages to have four strips (on the first page logo plus three strips).
Prints:
- Giorno dei Ragazzi #1–21 (1964)
- Vol. "Jacovitti", Piero Dami, 1974
- Il giorno di Cocco Bill (2009). 27 pgs. Color.
- Superfumetti #8 (2015). 21 pgs. Color.
- [FIN*]: "Cocco Bill ja kummitukset". 21 pgs. Color.
- [NL]: "De spokenbende" 21 pgs. Color.
- [YSL]: "Na onom svetu". 16+5 pgs. B&W.
Synopsis:
Cocco Bill confronts a ghost and the devil himself.
Characters:
Cocco Bill.
[* Opening page excerpt from the Finnish edition]
Jacovitti prints
- The original Cocco Bill
- The original Zorro Kid
- The other originals
- Jacovitti in Brazil
- Jacovitti in Finland
- Jacovitti in France
- Jacovitti in Germany
- Jacovitti in Greece
- Jacovitti in Hungary
- Jacovitti in the Netherlands
- Jacovitti in Norway
- Jacovitti in Spain
- Jacovitti in Sweden
- Jacovitti in Yugoslavia
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Created: June 17, 2009. Modified:
July 16, 2019.