Tarzan had eluded the fascist censure by hiding under the costume and name of the German "Sigfrido" and people stared at their freedom as at a never ending prairie. After years of an ideology that regarded "America" as an evil temptation towards freedom and democracy, Italians could go back to an American dream the way this was embodied in movies, books, comics and heroes. The age of fascism and war had just died away and in Italy people woke up from that long nightmare with a desire for reconstruction and a longing for America. Giovanni Luigi Bonelli and Aurelio Galleppini To go back over his origins and career again is like jumping on an old wagon and rediscovering a mythical America, a fictitious, stolen, and manipulated object of desire situated in the land of Italians' collective imagery between nostalgia and eternal boyhood. He has outlived his graphic creator, several different formats and editions, narrative experiments, and all the serializations of western comics serials born before, with, and immediately after him. This character, halfway between a cowboy and a righteous gunfighter, is Italy's most beloved western hero. In September 1998, Tex Willer will be 50 years old.
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