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Two intertwined stories covering five albums, in which Zagor will go to Transylvania before returning to Darkwood, right on time to face the comeback of an old enemy of his, who wants his revenge. We will talk about this in a year's time because it will be the main course in our early menu. What about the other series starring the Spirit-with-the-Hatchet? I only need to point to the title of our spring Speciale to persuade you that there will be surprises galore: "Ritorno alla Casa del Terrore" Back to the House of Terror. There will be big news for our Maxis , too, starting with the May issue, the n. By the end of the year, we should have a surprise ready for the joy of all our fans: the project's code name is Enciclopedia Zagoriana! There are still many other surprises in store for you: if Zagor celebrates his 60th birthday, the same goes for our good old Cico!

That's why, in June, you will find at your newsstands a Speciale entirely centered on the most genial Mexican in the world, in the same format of the 27 albums published from to It will be the series' 28th issue, and you don't want to miss it! The Number Zero of the Zagor- Flash team-up, starring the ultra-fast DC superhero, will be at your newsstands with a one-off album, in March, after the soft-cover album with a double cover distributed at the comic bookstores in December. All that, while waiting for the complete, page story, an authentically international publishing event, that will crown the second part of Zagor's year. The readers who prefer more "traditional" issues will soon find the third strip-format series, after the six albums of Collana Darkwood and Collana Scure. The new "Collana Aquila" will comprise eight albums that you can buy at your comic bookstores or our online Shop. By April, the sixth and final hard-cover book of Zagor: le Origini will be in bookstores, while by the end of the year, we should have a surprise ready for the joy of all our fans.

What is it? We will talk about this later. For now, we can only tell you that the project's code name is Enciclopedia Zagoriana , and we have been working on it for a long time. Is that all? Not in the least. There will be other tasty surprises that we will present to you during the next months. Stay tuned. If you don't want to miss any piece of news and updates about Zagor, you can follow the character's Facebook page. To be informed about all the news from our Publishing House, you can follow the official Sergio Bonelli Editore page on Facebook and Instagram or subscribe to our YouTube channel. Powered by Miles As Kinsky is about to gun down confused and distracted Patrick, Fitzy arrives in time to save the life of his protégé but, in doing so, is mortally wounded and dies in Patrick's arms. The boy's understanding of the relativity of the concepts of good, evil and justice comes in question as he is devastated with pain, grief, confusion and the genocide of his own that mirrors the one committed by Mike Wilding years ago.

To atone for his father's sins, as well as his own, Patrick is compelled to transform himself with his accomplices the Sullivans, a family of acrobats who are his image makers into Za-Gor-Te-Nay, shortened to Zagor. He is a kind of avenger always ready to side with the weak and the oppressed, whether red, white or black, whoever they may be. Moving his shack to an island surrounded by quick-sand in a marshy area of Darkwood Forest, Zagor begins his work as a peacemaker. He takes Darkwood tribes under his wing earning himself a distinction of the Lord of Darkwood, beloved and respected by peaceful natives and trappers, and feared and hated by anyone who would endanger the peace between reds and whites. Zagor is not a typical western character, as his stories mix horror and science fiction by side with a bit of humour coming mostly from his sidekick Chico, a short, fat Mexican man who became his best friend. Zagor's abilities include almost superhuman strength, agility and endurance.

His fighting prowess is extraordinary whether he finds himself in a gunfight or plain brawl. If needed, Zagor is more than capable of dealing with multiple opponents and is basically invincible in a one-on-one bout. In many occasions, he is also seen fighting North American wildlife such as cougars, alligators and even bears with nothing more than his hatchet or knife. He is infallible with his oval bladed hatchet, whether he uses it as a melee weapon or as a projectile. Zagor is also shown possessing an incredible speed that, paired with his almost catlike reflexes, often allows him to catch a traveling spear or even an arrow, a feats which usually leave Indians in an awe further solidifying Zagor's status of an emissary of the Great Spirit a superstition that Zagor uses to his advantage. Zagor can quickly cover great distances using his trademark branch-to-branch way of traveling where he jumps from one treetop to another. His war cry seems to be a roar of an unidentifiable and presumably horrific creature.

This is one of Zagor's calling cards, the one which usually leaves wrongdoers in a frantic state of mind. Throughout the series, it is strongly suggested that Zagor, although not a demi-god that he claims to be, is indeed in Manitou's good graces and on more than few occasions he has served as a champion of heavens against the forces of evil drawing his strength from the divine intervention best example being the storyline of Hellingen's Return - episodes through Later stories have also hinted that Zagor's great abilities could come from him being a descendant of an Atlantean royalty or perhaps a reincarnation of an ancient African deity. Although capable of near-superhuman feats, there were rare instances when Zagor was bested by certain extraordinary individuals. In a contest of skill trials of power, speed, reflexes, marksmanship, breath-diving and beast-fighting against multi-talented villain Supermike, Zagor is forced into a seventh round tie-breaker - a life-or-death duel atop of a small platform surrounded by the garden of spikes and daggers which he, eventually, wins convincingly while even managing to spare the life of an opponent.

When it comes to a fair slugfest, there were very few foes able to hold their own against the Spirit with the Hatchet. Such is the case with the Alchemist Robert Gray. In the episodes Criminal Genius and The Rebellion of the Mohawks Zagor and Gray duke it out twice with Zagor coming on top the first time around and Gray winning the second duel. It is worth noting, though, that Gray had an advantage of his steel prosthetic hands thus forcing brutally beaten Zagor to dishonor himself by resorting to shoot the unarmed opponent. Another example of worthy adversary comes in the face of Captain Otto Kraus, commander of the special paramilitary unit called the Black Wolves episode 32 - The Fugitive. Kraus, proficient practitioner of the unnamed oriental martial arts, although weary from hours of being chased by Zagor and the Pennacooke Indians, still manages to K. Zagor in a convincing fashion, just before he is, ironically, shot dead by a surviving member of his own unit for deserting the squad on the battlefield.

He is Zagor's loyal companion and a comic relief throughout the series. Baron Icarus LaPlume Feather - An inventor obsessed with flying who always ends up victim of his own devices. Many Eyes - Shaman which embraces white people's medicine and technology.

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One of the few Indians to know Zagor's true identity. Professor Hellingen - Mad scientist and Zagor's nemesis. Not only that he is capable of creating a doomsday devices but he has also managed to cheat death and return to the land of the living to wreak havoc not once, but twice. Mortimer - Scheming genius and a conspirator. Inspired by A. Doyle's professor Moriarty.

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The Alchemist Robert Gray - Terrorist with prosthetic arms and expert in chemical warfare. One of very few persons to defeat Zagor in a fistfight. Even though Zagor is popular in Italy, it is even more popular in Croatia and Serbia , where it is being published to this day; his stories are also published in other former Yugoslav republics Bosnia and Herzegovina , North Macedonia and Slovenia. Although not as popular, Zagor comics are also published in Austria. Zagor has been published in India by Lion Comics in October Zagor is one of the most popular comic heroes in Turkey since the s. In , Epicenter Comics released, in United States, the first English-language edition of the three-part story Zagor! Terror from the Sea , including extra essays, introduction texts and original covers with an exclusive Michele Rubini cover. In , a second Zagor book in English was published.