Despite carrying out illegal activity, he is endowed with deep-rooted ethical principles, even if very personal (honor, protection of the weakest, a sense of friendship and gratitude, respect for noble souls), and therefore he hates mobsters, narcotics traffickers, loan sharks, and torturers.
Over the years the genesis of the controversial character emerges and slowly the myth of this anti-hero was created.ĭiabolik is a thief with a strong fondness for precious jewels or huge amounts of money and he does not hesitate to kill those who obstruct his plans. Since its inception, Diabolik has sold nearly 150 million copies. The format of the Diabolik books, designed to be pocket-sized, was invented to meet the needs of the commuters whom Angela Giussani observed every morning from the window of her house, near the Cadorna station, in Milan.įor over fifty years Diabolik has been published without interruption and has exceeded 850 published episodes the first numbers of the series have reached high market prices in collecting. After his debut in 1962, the comic book soon reached very high print runs, becoming a phenomenon studied by sociologists and communication experts.
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