Back flagship of Nerbini, The Adventurous , and follow it in its triumphant march. The golden days will stop abruptly in the fall of 1938, with the provisions of the censors Ministry of Popular Culture, but for now there are no clouds in sight. Indeed,
Nerbini can even afford to reduce from eight to six pages, from number 61 in 1935, leaving the price unchanged. The reduced foliation will last until No. 84. The Adventurous
to six pages (a single large sheet, folded in three) continues to offer its bigwig American King Features Syndicate stable . The star of first magnitude remains Flash Gordon of Don Moore and Alexander Gillespie Raymond . Nerbini continues to lay out the tables on Sunday in a substantially correct, although with several "stretching" of cartoons, to fit the different layout of the magazine. 
Alex Raymond, as we have seen in previous posts, experiment with different techniques of ink from the nib to a brush. His fame expanded dramatically, both at home and abroad. Twenty-six years is already a master universally recognized and influential, with many followers. Here it is, in a photo of these thirties, caught Online
In 1935, Raymond continues to draw virtually no assistants, a full page Sunday (with Flash Gordon and his topper , Jungle Jim) and a daily series, Secret Agent X-9. It is a tour de force that can not long endure, as we shall see.
printing de The Adventurous limps a bit 'in recent months, and does not do full justice to the masterpiece of Raymond. Moreover, the giornalone of legendary Nerbini will remain for a long time, the best edition of the world Gordon : despite all its flaws, it offers almost no gaps, the entire production from start to July 28, 1938, in large format printing with good results.
wait until the nineteen sixties to have the edition of discutibilissima Sword Brothers and the next decade to one in black and white Nostalgia Press (we Garzanti ) and for prints of Italian amateur Club thirties and Comic Art . The only American reprint in full color and with original, quality but not exceptional, will be released (for the Kitchen Sink , in six volumes) even in the nineties.
The continuing saga of Gordon, among princesses- dark ladies and warring kingdoms, monsters and spaceships Rococo beautiful and impossible, in a cheerful chaos narrative. But at the end of 1936 begins to plot his way a more structured and consistent manner. The protagonist is gradually becoming the catalyst for a revolt of the kingdoms of the planet Mongo against the brutal dictator Ming the merciless : the reference to schemes totalitari europei (fra cui c’è proprio l’Italia mussoliniana!) è tutt’altro che velato.
A metà circa del 1936, L’Avventuroso inizia a pubblicare l’episodio “sottomarino” di Gordon, Il mare del mistero . È un momento particolarmente felice della saga, sia dal punto di vista narrativo che grafico. Un esempio della versione originale, preso dall’edizione Kitchen Sink prima rammentata, rende evidenti sia i pregi che i limiti tipografici della stampa nerbiniana:
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