In the previous post I mentioned to a classmate's very special ...
His name was Ariel ... A name that at first glance may make you smile and bring back the memory of the Little Mermaid Walt Disney cartoon, a detergent in vogue in the '60s and '70s, or at best, the spirit of the air character of the play "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare ...
My classmate was a slave ancestry and had a number of relatives with names as "strange" and evocative: Ario grandfather, Act his father, Ervin brother, sister Liana ...
In the last years of high school was my classmate and I had discovered that his passion for comics Bonelli: it was the first person I've known who collected all series of Bonelli and from whom I learned to read the adventures not issue by issue, as they came out, but all in one breath to complete story!
With its "loans" I could read the entire series of Little Ranger, Ken Parker of and Rodeo Collection / History of West . Every two or three days I wore to school a dozen numbers and I read them at home ...
Well, in January 1981 told me he had bought the last roll of Zagor entitled The people of the night, which began the story of the return of the vampire Bela Rakosi. Knowing that I was a fan of the first vampire adventure of Zagor, invited me to buy the story that was coming out on newsstands.
listened to his advice.
And so, after you register in January, I bought also the following ( The Return of the Vampire, The kingdom of darkness The dreadful contagion and ).
For my part, the temptation to resume the collection was strong, but the next adventure designed by Francesco Gamba (with the first appearance of the character Axel von Alchemist) I do not wither and purchases were stranded ...
But even that year will not let me escape an Indian called Cico . In fact, the series "parallel" of the specialist dedicated to Felipe Cayetano Lopez Martinez y Gonzales y continued to like.
beginning of the new school year in September 1981, Ariel, concoscendo my passion for fantasy literature (particularly Tolkien), Zagor informed me that the dawn of that month was beginning an adventure in which the Spirit with the Hatchet had to do with goblin and other fantastic beings.
Once again I heard his suggestion and bought the books The skull of fire , Lord Black and The horde of evil ...
At that point, missing a few months of leaving No 200, which would undoubtedly have been in color, continued Zagor to buy (thus having the opportunity to read the wonderful adventure twilight of the numbers 198 and 199 ( Lone Wolf and The circle of life).
now it was done! Thanks to Ariel, with whom I had found another lover with whom to share my passion and Zagor with whom I spent a whole summer afternoons reading comics, Zagor and since then she had regained I have not lost a number of its output on newsstands!
not alone. Ariel convinced me to recall a bit 'at a time also the numbers of the collection that I had lost, and to facilitate the "work" took me to London (near Viale Fulvio Testi / Viale Zara) where there was a huge warehouse crammed with Bonelli comics (I think it was the distributor of the time) where I bought all at once all the numbers from The seal of the emperor to Last Viking ...
Unfortunately, even here, cases of life separated us for years and now that I see my friend Ariel. I could not, however, does not make a fitting tribute and I continue to be grateful for his friendship and his encouragement to resume the collection of Zagor.
Ariel, this post is dedicated to you! 
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