Alamo Jim. FINAL PAGE, SIGNED

Written by Carlos Albiac and illustrated by Carlos Casalla, this series from Editorial Columba introduced a complex antihero who broke the mold and foreshadowed the spaghetti western sensibility. With Alamo Jim (1960), Carlos Albiac anticipated Sergio Leone's uninhibited approach and his spaghetti westerns (the famous Dollars Trilogy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, and A Fistful of Dollars More) by creating an antihero who revitalized the genre's clichés through irreverent humor that served to desacralize everything, including the protagonist, presented as "an obscure, impoverished, and generous vagabond of the highways."

Albiac, who had recently published his first script about another solitary, vigilante cowboy named Pithy Rayne for the Spanish publisher Brugera, reformed the character with a more radical approach that sought to transcend the limitations of the genre. Alamo Jim offers deceptively simple stories, where the characters' casual reflections give depth to the plots, works done by Casalla for Italy in Record Magazine and for United States, specifically for Charlton Comics.

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