Il Giornalino was an Italian comics magazine published by the Catholic publisher Edizioni San Paolo of Alba, founded in 1924.

During its history, the magazine published the Italian translation of numerous American and European comics series, such as Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes

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, The Smurfs

The Smurfs

The Smurfs is a comic and television franchise centred on a group of small blue fictional creatures called Smurfs, created and first introduced as a series of comic strips by the Belgian cartoonist Peyo on October 23, 1958...

, Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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, Popeye

Popeye

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, Hanna & Barbera's characters, Asterix

Asterix

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 and the Ninja Turtles. It also featured adaptations of famous novel and literary works, including The Betrothed, Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

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, Gargantua and Pantagruel

Gargantua and Pantagruel

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, Hamlet

Hamlet

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and others.

Original characters published on the pages of Il Giornalino include Larry Yuma

Larry Yuma

Larry Yuma is an Italian comics western series featuring the character of the same name, created by Carlo Boscarato and Claudio Nizzi, and first published in Italy in the magazine Il Giornalino in 1970....

, Nicoletta, Pinky, Piccolo Dente, Jack Speed, Dodo & Cocco, Rosco & Sonny, and the most famous of all, Commissario Spada

Commissario Spada

The Commissario Spada was an Italian comics series published on the Catholic weekly magazine Il Giornalino from 1970 to 1982, created by Gianluigi Gonano and Gianni De Luca. Featuring the adventures of a widower commissioner working in the criminal police of Milan, and his son Mario, it is one of...

 (1970–1982), created by Gianluigi Gonano and Gianni De Luca

Gianni De Luca

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 and characterized by an unusual realism for the magazine.

Authors who worked for Il Giornalino include Dino Battaglia

Dino Battaglia

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, Benito Jacovitti

Benito Jacovitti

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, Sergio Zaniboni

Sergio Zaniboni

Sergio Zaniboni is an Italian comics artist and writer. He is especially known as the artist of numerous stories for Diabolik.Born in Turin, Zaniboni started his comics career after working in technical design and advertisement...

, Ferdinando Tacconi

Ferdinando Tacconi

Fredinando Tacconi was an Italian comics artist.Tacconi was born in Milan. He earned a degree in Applied Arts from Castello Sforzesco...

, Luciano Bottaro

Luciano Bottaro

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, Franco Caprioli, Sergio Toppi

Sergio Toppi

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, Tiziano Sclavi

Tiziano Sclavi

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, Giorgio Cavazzano

Giorgio Cavazzano

Giorgio Cavazzano is an Italian comic strip artist. He started his career at age 14, as an inker for Romano Scarpa...

, Alfredo Castelli

Alfredo Castelli

Alfredo Castelli is an Italian comic book author and writer.-Biography:Born in Milan, Castelli began his comic book career at an early age, creating the strip Scheletrino, a humor series for Italian comic book Diabolik, when he was only 16 years old.In 1966, with Paolo Sala, he created Comics Club...

, Lino Landolfi, Daniele Panebarco.