Lanciostory

{{Short description|Italian comic magazine}}

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Lanciostory, sometimes spelled as Lancio Story or LancioStory, is a weekly comic magazine published in Rome, Italy, from 1975.

==History and profile==

Lanciostory was created in 1975{{cite book|author1=Gaetana Marrone|author2=Paolo Puppa|title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=csVcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA790|date=26 December 2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-135-45529-3|page=790}} by Editrice Lancio to target the adult audience interested in comics who had marked the contemporary success of comics magazines such as Il Monello and Intrepido. The first issue, #0, was released in April 1975 attached to the Lancio-edited fotoromanzi magazine Le Avventure di Jacques Douglas.{{cite book|author=Gianni Bono|title=Guida al fumetto italiano|publisher=Epierre|date=2003|pages=1156–1163}} The magazine is published by Eura editoriale based in Rome.{{cite news|title=Strisce d'inchiostro sull'Arma: nasce "Unità speciale", fumetto d'autore |url=https://www.carabinieri.it/cittadino/informazioni/eventi/strisce-d'inchiostro-sull'arma-nasce-unit%C3%A0-speciale-fumetto-d'autore|access-date=16 October 2021|work=Ministry of Defence|date=28 March 2008 |language=Italian}}

The magazine initially mainly published works by South-American and especially Argentine authors, including Carlos Trillo, Juan Giménez, Enrique Breccia, Francisco Solano López, Ernesto García Seijas, Enrique Alcatena, Eduardo Mazzitelli, Juan Zanotto. Italian collaborators included Franco Saudelli, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri and Massimo Rotundo. From the late 1970s Lanciostory started publishing Franco-Belgian comics.{{cite book|author=Franco Fossati|title=Dizionario Illustrato del Fumetto|publisher=Mondadori|date=1992|isbn=8804355441|chapter=Lanciostory}}

Notable series which were introduced in the magazine include Dago, John Doe and Dracula in the west also published in USA by Antarctic Press.

Each issue consists of about 6-7 episodic comics, plus several columns about cinema, sport and entertainment.