Frisco bill

In April 1948, another journalist became the hero of a new series: Frisco Bill. He is a reckless and very dynamic young man, who flings himself into the most dangerous adventures with the same spirit that a sports enthusiast would display in launching himself into the fray of a football match. It hardly need be added that a character of this kind could certainly not perform his mighty deeds in a limited range of action, and so it comes as no surprise to find our hero, together with his inseparable friend Zazzera and the friendly little dog Pillachera, jumping on planes and motorboats, riding powerful motorbikes or temperamental horses, passing within the space of just a few hours from the elegance of a Rio nightclub to the wretched hovels of an Indio village. The role of antagonist was occupied first by the Figli del Serpente, a sect of Brazilian Indios, and later by a mysterious gang of hooded figures. Among the aspects of this series that immediately strike the reader, special mention must be made of the brilliant scripts by Baglioni and the freshness of Zamperoni's illustrations (rendered three-dimensional by the use of screens), but fans were left disappointed by the overhasty closure of the series right in the heat of the story!