Shanghai Devil

Shanghai, China, 1897. That’s the place where we find Ugo Pastore (the hero, and also the "heir" of the silver mask that belonged to Volto Nascosto) at the beginning of Shanghai Devil (a sequel to Volto Nascosto (2007)), the new 18 issues miniseries created by Gianfranco Manfredi. At the end of the 1800, Shanghai already is one of the main Asian ports, and Ugo moved here to help his father Enea in managing the Caput Mundi corporation. A place where the Western and Eastern cultures meet. And where they sometimes clash, due to the different tradition and customs and above all to the business – legal or not – of the many companies that fight for a dominant position in the spice and cloth trade, and also in the trade of less “noble” materials.It’s in this scenario that, seemingly out of the blue, a strange masked hero with a handgun enters the stage. The British call him Shanghai Devil and see him as one of their harshest enemies. The silver mask of Shanghai Devil is hiding none other than the young man from Rome, Ugo Pastore, who, faced with many injustices can only get involved, trying to right wrongs.