Il Vittorioso

Il Vittorioso
Publication information
Publisher	Azione Cattolica
Schedule	Weekly
Publication date	1937 – 1966

Il Vittorioso (Italian for "The Victorious") was a weekly comic magazine published in Italy from 1937 to 1966.

History and profile

The magazine was born on the initiative of the Azione Cattolica association as a catholic response to the secular comics, with the aim of offering to their young audience comics that had positive moral values and which were respectful of Catholic doctrine.[1][2] It was first published in 1937.[3] Enrico Basari's comic format of Beowulf was published in the magazine in 1941.[4] It was the first comic format of the work.[4]

Il Vittorioso had a good commercial success, with an average circulation of about 200,000 copies per week, even thanks to its distribution channel which included parishes and catholic educational entities.[1][2]

The magazine included only works by Italian cartoonists, and it launched the career of several of them, notably Benito Jacovitti.[1][2]

See also

• List of magazines in Italy

Notes

1. Leonardo Becciu (1971). Il Fumetto in Italia. G.C. Sansoni.
2. Maurice Horn; Luciano Secchi (1978). Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto. Editoriale Corno.
3. Federico Zanettin (2018). "Translation, censorship and the development of European comics cultures". Perspectives. 26 (6): 870. doi:10.1080/0907676X.2017.1351456. S2CID 67466119.
4. María José Gómez Calderón (November 2007). "Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary Readings". Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses. 55.

External links

• Media related to Il Vittorioso at Wikimedia Commons