I Classici dell'Avventura – L'Uomo Mascherato (Fratelli Spada)

I Classici dell'Avventura – L'Uomo Mascherato was published monthly by Fratelli Spada from January 1962 to February 1967.

History

The series had a cartridge on the upper left mentioning the title I Classici dell'Avventura, the format size of 15 x 21 cm for most of the issues, and 100 pages per issue. The series was launched immediately after La Freccia's series ended.

This series alternated between the adventures of the Phantom (even issue numbers) and Mandrake the Magician (uneven issue numbers). The series had a total of 134 issues, of which 67 issues were devoted to Phantom stories. The first issue dedicated to the Phantom was issue #2 (January 25, 1962) and the last one was issue 134 (February 12, 1967). Issues #14, 16 and 26 had a bigger size of 17 × 24 cm and had the subtitle gigante.

Each issue included three Phantom stories, until issue #62 in May 1964, from which only one Phantom story was featured. Each issue now included two other comics such as "Tim Tyler's Luck", "Secret Agent X-9", "King of the Royal Mounted" and so on.

In France, a similar series of 78 issues (entitled at first Classiques de l'aventure, then Les héros de l'aventure) was published by Editions des Remparts from 1964 to 1971. It roughly corresponded to the Phantom issues from Fratelli Spada's I Classici dell'Avventura – L'Uomo Mascherato, while the Mandrake issues were published as a separate series called Les héros du mystère.

Issue overview

1962	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
1963	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52
1964	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78
1965	79	80	81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	100	101	102	103	104
1966	105	106	107	108	109	110	111	112	113	114	115	116	117	118	119	120	121	122	123	124	125	126	127	128	129	130
1967	131	132	133	134

See also

• Les héros de l'aventure