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Italian poster for the 1966 film Golden Bat (aka Ogon Bat).
They got the head and shape of the costume mostly right, but then they went off the rails.
I guess, with the (translated) title The Return of Diavolik, the Italian exhibitors thought they would be able to fill theaters with people who thought this was a film based on Diabolik. Diabolik, an Italian comic book character created in 1962, was a mega-popular at the time, an anti-hero thief in an all-black costume that only showed his eyes. Diabolik made it to the big screen in the Mario Bava-directed film Danger: Diabolik (1968). American actor John Phillip Law (who would later star in 1974's The Golden Voyage of Sinbad) played the titular super-thief.
As you can see, there isn't really any resemblance between the two characters.
However, there is another Italian comic book anti-hero, one whose comic book costume was basically copied for the Golden Bat poster: Kriminal.
Inspired by the success of Diabolik, Kriminal debuted in Italian comics two years later. He was another anti-hero thief, and the similarities with Diabolik didn't stop there. He was, though, much more sadistic than his inspiration. His stories included a lot more sex and violence, especially against women, whom he would murder to protect his identity.
Never as successful as his forbear, Kriminal nevertheless had a ten-year run in comics, and spawned two films:


Kriminal (1966). He really looks like Golden Bat in that second poster.
The Mark of Kriminal (1967).
Of course, none of these characters should be confused with another fellow with a skeleton motif: Sadistik, the Diabolical Super Kriminal!

Originally named Killing when he debuted in Italian comics (fumetti, to be more precise) in 1966, Sadistik was inspired by the excesses of Kriminal. There's just one thing: Sadistik didn't think Kriminal went far enough, so he made sure to out-do his idol (whom he had a crossover with, the first in Italian comics). This guy didn't pretend to be an anti-hero; he was an out-and out villain who occasionally wiped out other crooks who got in his way.
He was known as Satanik in France (Killing just seemed a little on-the-nose), and Sadistik in the English-speaking world. His fumetti exploits only lasted 62 issues over three years in his native Italy. In Argentina, where he was still called Killing, the publishers there created their own stories when the original ones ran out. The Argentinian series lasted into the 1980s.
Additionally, the character was called KiLiNK in Turkey, where he was the star of several unauthorized films (I sometimes wonder if that's the only kind Turkey made) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The best known of those films is 1967's Killing In Istanbul.
Apparently, the son of a scientist KiLiNK kills somehow gains super-powers, and calls himself Superman. His battle with KiLiNK carries over to the sequel, which was released the same year.
Anyway, what was I talking about when I started this post?
#Golden Bat#Ogon Bat#The Return of Diavolik#Diabolik#Danger: Diabolik#Kriminal#The Mark of Kriminal#Killing#Satanik#Sadistic#fumetti#Italian comic books#KiLiNK#Killing In Istanbul
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machiavelli and biagio (and a third person), hard at work in the office :)
#sometimes you have a really bad month which is turning into TWO bad months and you forget which brushes you like inking with#because you've been too busy trying to tread water. so to speak. like my god. and on top of that. job hunting. augh.#and to finish that off. my ideas notebook that i scribble comic layouts in. ran out of pages. which is honestly at the bottom#of the list of things that are going wrong but it did feel like some kind of cosmic punchline and i'm at my LIMIT#ANYWAY. thoughts about renaissance espionage. they are circling in my mind. its been too long since ive drawn machiavelli#eventually i'm going to figure out how to do this machiavelli-leonardo-biagio comic. the visuals....we're so close to cracking the#code (<< figuring out what florence should look like) (artistically) (save me photographers who take photos of places for comic artists)#italian renaissance tag#drawing tag#there's also a biagio book i want to read also. surprisingly difficult to track down! i remain undeterred tho#compared to some of the things ive been trying to track down for ascanio the biagio book is casual fun
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“Madam! You’ve made my pants wet!”

‘7Sette’ magazine (Nov 1945)
#pin up style#pin up art#comic book art#pin up cartoon#good girl art#pulp art#comic strip art#7Sette#Italian#1940s#1945#WW2
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Italian coloring book cover
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Release Day: Italian Translation!
Ciao! We are overjoyed to announce that our debut book is now available in Italian 🇮🇹
The book – released by Edizioni BD – is beautifully titled “War and Peas – Fumetti spassosi per amanti scandalosi” and we can’t stop repeating this title over and over again like a mantra.
Find more infos and order links here: https://warandpeas.com/fumetti-spassosi-per-amanti-scandalosi/
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#*cracks knuckles*#time to punch tuco my beloved#i tried to recreate the style of italian comic books like dylan dog or diabolic#angst angst angst baby#the good the bad and the ugly#tuco ramirez#blonco#blondie#the man whit no name\blondie#the dollars trilogy
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Page from The Story of Valentina by Guido Crepax
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#italian#mark texeira#marvel#marvel comics#comics#comic books#sabretooth#x men#xmen#x-men#victor creed
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#contemporary art#pixel art#art history#art#artwork#nail art#artists on tumblr#art detail#art journal#artificial intelligence#black art#character art#clay art#comic book art#digital art#fiber art#gif art#italian art#japanese art#advertising#modern art#my art#net art#original art#illustration art#drawings#traditional art#illustration
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He really is the sweetest character ever. He immediately senses that his friends want to be alone, so he leaves to go run errands. But then everyone decides to follow him, because they don't know how this loveable weirdo can afford to live and pay for himself. But considering his name is apparently Siegfried Horatio Hunch the Third, i would just assume he's got family wealth. But that's just me. Also, seeing the names Brenda and Eddie have just reminded me of Billy Joel, and scenes from an italian restaurant. ('Mazing Man #2):


#'mazing man#mazing man#dc comics#bob rozakis#stephen destefano#dc universe#dcu#reading comics#comic books#comics#billy joel#I think it had to be a reference#but i can't prove that#scenes from an italian restaurant
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Jerry in "Rock a bye Baby", 1958.
I just watched this and couldn't help notice there are some very subtle references to Dean. His future father in law in the movie is an Italian barber, just like Dean's and there's a scene where a customer in the barber shop is reading a comic book. Dean was famous for loving comic books
#jerry lewis#rock a bye baby#1958#dean martin#italian barber#comic books#Jerry was absolutely adorable in this film
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giulia farnese, lucrezia borgia, caterina gonzaga
we are. figuring out looks. slowly but surely, we're figuring out looks.
⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / insta / tip jar!
#italian reanissance tag#blghghghghhh there's just so many people all the time#anyway back to cycling between books on the later roman empire/akhenaten/sparta&lakonia#i should finish the sparta&lakonia book because i want to do a sword&sandals type of comic set during the peloponnesian war#however. you ever read three pages of something and realize you have no idea what someone is talking about#every day reading about lakonia is like that. oof. it's fun tho! but i am going to go back to working on illustration work with#kamen rider on or something.#drawing tag
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‘With closed eyes!’

Artist: Gino Boccasile (1949)
#pin up style#pin up art#comic book art#pin up cartoon#good girl art#pulp art#pulp#cover#1940s#1949#Gilera#Magazine#Italian#gino boccasile
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Corriere dei Piccoli - various issues (1908-1993)
You can read various issues of this Italian children's comic book here.






#internet archive#comic#comics#comic book#comic books#magazine#magazines#old comics#vintage comics#vintage comic books#comic history#comics history#comic book history#old magazines#vintage magazine#vintage magazines#italian comics#italy#italian history#1900s#1910s#50s#60s#70s#80s#90s
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once again thinking about how there are more Disney fairies comics that I haven't read but they're in Italian and I have no way to access them 😔
#the ones published as graphic novels are the only canon to me#yeah the movies are fun but they are not the same#i know the comics are based on the books but i dont remember those#its so rough out here because i love Terrence and Vidia but not from the movies or even the books but from these specific graphic novels#that no one has read#that were originally published in an italian magazine#sigh
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