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 #28:
"Coccobilliput"
Format:
© 1970. Signature at the end of each page [JAC 70]. No page numbering. 20
pgs.
Note: Chapter logos on every 4th page.
Reprint changes (page altering):
NL2: The first big frame on first page has cut from top during erasing the original logo. Chapter logos replaced with big junk of text blocks.
SPA: Highly edited version. Almost every single frame has been edited to make it fit to comic book format. Some pages' got four strips, some three!
YSL1: Highly edited. Hight is okay, but all pages are redrawn wider
(by local artist).
Prints:
- Corriere dei Piccoli #44–48 (1970)
- La grande avventura dei fumetti (1990)
- Jacovitti Magazine #3 (1994). 20 pgs. B&W.
- [FIN*]: "Coccobilliput". 20 pgs. Color.
- [GER]: "Cocco Bill gegen Gauner und Liliputaner".
- [GR]: "Οι λιλιρουτιοι". 20 pgs. Color.
- [NL1]: "De Billiputters". 20 pgs.
- [NL2]: "De Billieputters". 20 pgs. Color.
- [NOR]: "Tøffe tom mot... hvem vet?". Color.
- [SPA]: "Cocobilliput". 38 pgs. Color.
- [YSL1]: "Koko Bil [#1]". 18 pgs (!). B&W.
- [YSL2]: "U maminom zagrljaju". 18 pgs (!). B&W.
Synopsis:
Cocco Bill managed to thumble himself middle of fighting gangs. The others are small Lilliputian, though not as small as in Swift's Gulliver's Travel.
Characters:
Cocco Bill; Trottalemme; Scheriffo Pitt Gambafloscia; Burly Bona; Bobby Kupp; Mac Macist family; Cicci Brakt; Mamma; Dottor Nox; Tomas Vattakura.
[* 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: October 17, 2009. Modified:
July 16, 2019.