Kociss

This character was based on the figure (a true historical person) of the Chiricahua Apache chief, Cochise. G. L. Bonelli, with his usual skillfulness, built up a series of exciting adventures around this figure, freeing him from the grit of history (as he had already done with Kit Carson in Tex) and enabling him to live a life of his own full of action and unexpected developments, always determined to defend his own people against the overweening power of whites and any other enemy. Excellent artwork was provided for this series by Emilio Uberti, who was graphically inspired by the great Burne Hogarth, the illustrator of Tarzan. Uberti also designed the covers of the strip albums.