Dylan Dog #19

Apr 1988 · Sergio Bonelli Editore · 1500 ITL

🌐 Italian edition · synopsis shown in English

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“Memorie dall'invisibile”

★ 1st appearance — Bree Daniels

About this Issue

Dylan Dog #19, titled 'Memorie dall'invisibile' (Memories from the Invisible World), is the first appearance of Bree Daniels — the character widely regarded by fans and critics as the most emotionally significant love interest in the entire series, whose introduction prompted a flood of reader mail described as unprecedented for the book. Tiziano Sclavi's script deploys an invisible-man narrator as a literal metaphor for social anonymity, pushing the series well beyond genre horror into something closer to literary noir, and the issue is routinely cited as a touchstone of what Italian popular comics could achieve aesthetically and thematically in the late 1980s. The story seeded a long-running subplot — culminating in issue #88 ('Oltre la morte') — that forced the title to grapple seriously with the AIDS crisis, making it one of the few mainstream Italian comics of its era to engage that subject at all.

In "Memorie dall'invisibile," the haunting case of a London serial killer targeting prostitutes sends shockwaves through Scotland Yard—and draws in Dylan Dog, hired by Bree Daniels, one of the women caught in the web. With Giampiero Casertano’s moody art and Tiziano Sclavi’s sharp storytelling, this 1988 issue blurs the line between the seen and the unseen, where every shadow might hide a truth too dark to face. Claudio Villa’s cover captures the unease perfectly, a silent promise of dread beneath the surface.

writer Tiziano Sclavi · artist, inker Giampiero Casertano · letterer Renata Tuis · cover Claudio Villa

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History

Written by Tiziano Sclavi and drawn by Giampiero Casertano, the issue appeared on Italian newsstands in April 1988 under the Editoriale Daim Press indicia (Sergio Bonelli Editore's publishing imprint of that period), with series concept credit to Sclavi, editorship to Sergio Bonelli, and art direction by Luigi Corteggi. Sclavi drew the name 'Bree Daniels' directly from the Jane Fonda character in Alan J. Pakula's 1971 film 'Klute', a deliberate cinephile nod consistent with the series' habit of folding film and literary references into its fabric — this issue also cites Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks' painting, Jimi Hendrix, and singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André. The issue falls within the first two years of the series, a period critics consider the creative apex of Sclavi's run, when he was writing the majority of scripts himself.

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First appearance of Bree Daniels, an American-born London sex worker who becomes Dylan Dog's most enduring romantic attachment across the series' continuity.
Written by Tiziano Sclavi; art by Giampiero Casertano. Published April 1988 by Sergio Bonelli Editore (indicia publisher: Editoriale Daim Press).
The character name 'Bree Daniels' is taken from Jane Fonda's role in the 1971 Alan J. Pakula film 'Klute', confirmed in the Grand Comics Database annotation for this issue.
A running gag in the issue — Bree mispronouncing Dylan's name as 'Dailan' — prompted Groucho (page 19) to clarify the correct pronunciation, a meta-moment that addressed a widespread real-world reader confusion at the time.
The invisible-man narrator device structures the plot: a literal unseen figure whose anonymity comments on urban social invisibility, while the true horror is revealed to reside within outwardly respectable society — a theme Sclavi would return to throughout the series.
Inspector Bloch appears in the issue in an active Scotland Yard capacity, being interviewed by a journalist named Coldwater, who is later revealed as the brother of the story's antagonist.
The issue has been reprinted at least six times in Italian alone, including the Collezione Book reprint (December 1997), a La Repubblica 'Classici del Fumetto' edition (2003), a Mondadori Oscar Narrativa collection (1992), and a Rizzoli/Lizard 'Archivi Bonelli' volume (2013).
Dark Horse Comics translated and reprinted the story as Dylan Dog #3 (May 1999) for the American market, with cover art by Mike Mignola; in that edition Groucho was renamed 'Felix' and his likeness altered to sidestep rights issues tied to the Groucho Marx estate.
In 2016, Italian radio station Radio24 produced an audio adaptation of 'Memorie dall'invisibile' as part of a Dylan Dog radio drama series.
Bree Daniels' storyline from this issue directly feeds into Dylan Dog #88 ('Oltre la morte'), in which Dylan learns Bree is dying of AIDS and makes a pact with Death to save her — one of the earliest direct treatments of the AIDS epidemic in a mainstream Italian comic series.