Akim is the title character of an Italian adventure comic series created by writer Roberto Renzi and illustrator Augusto Pedrazza. A

Tarzanesque Tarzanesque (in French: ''Tarzanide'') is a term created by Frenchman Francis Lacassin used to describe characters in comic books inspired by Tarzan. A tarzanesque character resembles Tarzan in his physical resourcefulness, within a line of acti ...

comic book series, it was published by Tomasina from 1950 to 1967. It was also successfully exported in Germany, Greece (where it was renamed ''Tarzan'') and in France, where Renzi and Pedrazza kept to produce new stories even after the series closed in Italy. The series was also successful in Brazil where 198 issues were published between 1971 and 1991. The series was later reprised in Italy in 1976 by publishers Altamira (currently

Sergio Bonelli Editore Sergio Bonelli Editore (formerly CEPIM and other names) is a publishing house of Italian comics founded in 1940 by Giulio Chio (2015–present). It takes its name from its former president, comic book writer Sergio Bonelli (1932–2011), son of G ...

) and Quadrifoglio until 1983, when it finally closed.

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