Captain Miki is an Italian comic book

Italian comics

Italian comics are comics made in Italy. They are locally known as fumetto – plural form fumetti – although this latter term is often used in English to describe a specific comic genre . The most popular Italian comics have been translated into many languages...

, created by the trio EsseGesse

EsseGesse

EsseGesse was an Italian team of cartoonists, most famous for their Western comics, which was hugely popular in the 1950s, and were translated to French, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, Greek, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian....

. Miki was first published in Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 on July 1, 1951.

Miki is a young boy who, after carrying out a number of successful missions is promoted, in spite of his young age, in rank of captain of ranger

United States Army Rangers

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s in Nevada

Nevada

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. Miki has young fiancée, Susy, the daughter of the fort commandant. His best friends are Doppio Rhum (Double Rum) and Doctor Salasso. They gave comic book series a comic relief. Doppio Rhum was inspired by the actor Gabby Hayes in many western film

Western (genre)

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s of 1930s and 1940s, and Doctor Salasso by the drunken Doc, portrayed by Thomas Mitchell

Thomas Mitchell (actor)

Thomas Mitchell was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of Gerald O'Hara, the father of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, the drunken Doc Boone in John Ford's Stagecoach, and Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life...

 in the classic western film Stagecoach (1939).