{{about|the Italian comic magazine|other uses|Intrepid (disambiguation)}} {{Short description|Defunct weekly comic magazine in Italy (1935–1998)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox magazine | logo = | logo_size = | image_file = Intrepido003310.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = | category = Comic magazine | frequency = Weekly | circulation = | publisher = | founder = | founded = 1935 | firstdate = 23 February 1935 | finaldate = January 1998 | company = | country = Italy | based = Milan | language = Italian | issn = | oclc =}} '''''Intrepido''''' (Italian for "Intrepid"), also referred to as '''''L'Intrepido''''', was a weekly comic magazine published by Casa Editrice Moderna between 1935 and 1998.
==History and profile== The first issue was published on 23 February 1935.<ref name="Leonardo Becciu">{{cite book|author=Leonardo Becciu|title=Il Fumetto in Italia|publisher=G.C. Sansoni|date=1971|pages=81, 104–108}}</ref><ref name=nssh>{{cite book|author=Gianni Bono|title=Guida al fumetto italiano|publisher=Epierre|date=2003|pages=1044, 1051}}</ref> It was the first comics magazine to publish only comics by Italian artists; a few foreign comics were introduced in 1936, before disappearing in 1939.<ref name="Leonardo Becciu"/><ref name=nssh/> During the first phase in its history, the magazine got a large success with a series of comics inspired to 1800s feuilleton literature.<ref name="Leonardo Becciu"/><ref name=Fossati>{{cite book|author=Franco Fossati|title=Dizionario Illustrato del Fumetto|publisher=Mondadori|date=1992|isbn=8804355441|page=132}}</ref> After an interruption in 1943 due to World War II, it resumed its publications in April 1945, then continuing, without interruption, until January 1998.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Frank Bramlett|author2=Roy Cook|author3=Aaron Meskin|title=The Routledge Companion to Comics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EevLDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA80|date=5 August 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-91538-6|page=80}}</ref> In the 1960s the magazine enjoyed higher levels of circulation reaching 700,000 copies.<ref>{{cite book|author=M. Keith Booker|title=Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas [4 volumes]: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnuQBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA571|date=28 October 2014|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-39751-6|page=571}}</ref> During its lifetime the magazine produced more than 3,000 issues.<ref name=nssh/>
==See also== * List of magazines in Italy
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