Il Direttore degli Inferni

Few characters carry a title quite as commanding as Il Direttore degli Inferni — the Director of Hells — who stepped onto the stage of Italian horror comics in 1990, conjured by the legendary Tiziano Sclavi and artist Carlo Ambrosini in the pages of Dylan Dog #46. Born at the height of Sergio Bonelli Editore's beloved nightmare-detective series, this figure has haunted the Dylan Dog universe across more than three decades, surfacing in flagship issues, oversized Maxi editions, and the vibrant Color Fest specials alike. Sharing ink with Dylan Dog himself, the sardonic Groucho, Ispettore Bloch, and even La Morte, Il Direttore degli Inferni keeps extraordinarily rarefied company — the kind of cast that signals a character of genuine dramatic weight. Eighteen appearances spanning 1990 to 2021 tell the story of a presence that the series keeps returning to, and any collector serious about the darker, more mythologically ambitious corners of Italian fumetti will want to track this one down.