![]() His stories are set in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the American frontier began to move toward west. He lives in a wooden hut built in a swamp, in the middle of the fictional Darkwood Forest, located across the boundaries of three American states of the Midwest: Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. ![]() Zagor embraces a philosophy of neutrality among races, but, since his mission is to protect the weakest people against injustice, he often takes the side of the Indians against the oppression of the white Americans. His full battle name is Za-Gor Te-Nay, pretended to mean, in some fictional native American language "The spirit with the hatchet". Zagor comics are a unique mixture of classical western genre and other topics like pure adventure, fantasy, historical, and since he has fought against vampires and aliens, even horror and science fiction. ![]() Since its creation Zagor has been one of most popular Italian comics, alongside characters such Tex Willer, Dylan Dog, Diabolik and Lupo Alberto. Zagor was created in 1961 by writer Sergio Bonelli, the son of Gian Luigi Bonelli, author of western character Tex Willer, and artist Gallieno Ferri, who has been working at Zagor's stories for more than fifty years.
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