We finish this Bonelli line with someone who technically wasn't from Bonelli publishing house, but he was close enough. Most of readers in Yugoslavia couldn't even sport the difference.
I didn't read much real superheroes as a kid, and looking back, I think The Great Black (Black the rock) was the closest character to a hero with superpowers that I read.
Also, I consider him responsible for growing to like history. American war of independence wouldn't have been won without him.
Well, Tex wasn't much a fit for me. I did read a handful of his adventures, especially during the nineties, but overall we didn't bond.
There were other "cowboys", (although none of them were cowboys actually, just placed in western stories) in my childhood that I loved a lot more.
But the fact that the great Claudio Villa drew some of his episodes, and covers after the passing of Aurelio Galeppini, was enough to consider me one of the specials in my life.
When I hear the word "Antihero", his name and face pops up in my mind. He was the original hero with a flaw, actually a bunch of them, but always on the right side of justice.
He made me want to explore the world, not only the Amazon, and at the same time gave me enough interesting information and fun facts to learn from his adventures directly.
