Il Grande Blek is an Italian western comic book

Italian comics

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, first published in Italy

Italy

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 on October 3, 1954 by Editoriale Dardo. Blek was written and illustrated 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....

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Blek is a leader of a trappers during the American Revolutionary War

American Revolutionary War

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. They fought against the cruel Redcoats

Red coat (British army)

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, the symbol of British

British Empire

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 colonialist oppression. Blek's best friends and buddies in adventure are his stepson Roddy Lassiter and the professor Occultis.

Blek was published in other countries such as Greece (where is being published since June 1969), Turkey (as Steel Blek - Teksas), France (as Blek le Roc), and former Yugoslavia (as Veliki Blek). In Scandinavia he was called Davy Crockett, although he has nothing to do with the historic person Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett

David "Davy" Crockett was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S...

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