L'Audace
{{Short description|Defunct children's magazine in Italy (1934–1944)}}
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| frequency = Weekly
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| publisher = S.A.E.V
| founder = Lotario Vecchi
| founded = 1934
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L'Audace (Italian for "The Bold") was a weekly children and comic magazine published in Italy from 1934 to 1944.
History and profile
Founded by Lotario Vecchi in January 1934,{{cite thesis|author1=Manuela Di Franco|title=Popular Magazines in Fascist Italy, 1934 – 1943 |location=University of Cambridge|page=71|degree=PhD|doi=10.17863/CAM.33377|date=April 2018}} the magazine was published by S.A.E.V, except for a short time in which it was published by Mondadori. For its first sixty issues, it did not include comics, but only columns and illustrated short stories and novellas. It had initially a good commercial success, with an average circulation of about 180,000 copies per week. It introduced to the Italian audience several successful American comic series, notably Superman, Tarzan, Brick Bradford, Mandrake the Magician.{{cite book|author=Leonardo Becciu|title=Il Fumetto in Italia|publisher=G.C. Sansoni|year=1971|pages=81, 96-97}}{{cite book|authorlink1=Maurice Horn|author1=Maurice Horn|author2=Luciano Secchi|title=Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto
|publisher=Editoriale Corno|year=1978|pages=79-80|language=it}}{{cite book|author=Gianni Bono|title=Guida al fumetto italiano|publisher=Epierre|year=2003|pages=291-299|language=it}} It also included several Italian comic series, such as Dick Fulmine and Walter Molino's Capitan Audace.
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Category:1934 establishments in Italy
Category:1944 disestablishments in Italy
Category:Defunct children's magazines published in Italy
Category:Comics magazines published in Italy
Category:Defunct Italian-language magazines
Category:Magazines established in 1934