Jonny Logan is an Italian humorous comic book series, created in 1971 by Romano Garofalo as writer and by

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(under the pen name "Ghilbert") as artist and was published monthly by Edizioni Dardo.

Background

The comic series, similar in its structure to '' Alan Ford'', featured a

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ese crackpot team of

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s grappling with topical problems of the Italy of the time, such as terrorism, mafia infiltration in politics, abrogative referendum about divorce, taxes, internal emigration. The comics achieved a large commercial success, with a circulation of over 100,000 copies per month and a number of

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s all over Italy. The series was also published in France, Greece and Jugoslavia. The title character was inspired in his traits by the actor and comedian

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, at the time at the peak of his popularity.Paolo Guiducci, "Da Jonny Logan a Martin Mystère", in Vv.Aa, ''Zoom. L'invenzione del mare''. Guaraldi, 2012. . In the second half of seventies the success start to decline, and the series was interrupted in December 1978; seventy-seven issues were released in total. In 2012, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the comic series, a special issue was published in digital form. A series of animation shorts was produced for the

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TV-series ''Supergulp''.

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