Zagor
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Zagor is a comics character created by the Italian editor Sergio Bonelli (using the pseudonym Guido Nolitta) and artist Gallieno Ferri in 1961.
Zagor's real name is Patrick Wilding. He is a western character living in an imaginary forest named Darkwood, and located somewhere in the eastern USA. His name Zagor comes from its indian name "za-gor te-nay", which means "The Spirit with the Hatchet" . Though the writers don't mention exact dates, Zagor is supposed to be active during the first half of the 19th century. Zagor fights to maintain peace, protect the Indian tribes and hunt down criminals. Son of an army official retiring to live as a pioneer in the forests of the north-east, Patrick Wilding sees his parents die at the hands of a band of Abenaki Indians, led by a certain Salomon Kinsky. Taken in by a strange vagabond, the boy grows up with only one thought on his mind: revenge. When he is old enough to fulfill this he finds out that his Father had himself slaughtered many Indians, and the boy's understanding of the relativity of the concepts of good , evil and justice compels him to transform himself (with his accomplices the Sullivans, a family of acrobats who are his image makers) into Za-Gor-Te-Nay. Better still, shortened, Zagor. He is a kind of avenger always ready to side with the weak and the oppressed, whether red, white or black, whoever they may be. Moving his shack to an island surrounded by quick-sand in a marshy area of Darkwood Forest, Zagor begins his work as a peacemaker. Zagor isn't your typical western character, there's a mix of horror and sci-fi side by side with a bit of humour coming mostly from his side kick Chico.
Even though Zagor is popular in Italy it is even more popular in the countries of ex Yugoslavia where he is being published to this day. It is one of the most popular comics heroes in Turkey since the 1960s. Even a Turkish movie version of Zagor exists.
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