Tex Willer #3/1975
Tex Willer #3/1975 belongs to the Norwegian-language Williams Forlag run (1971–1976) that brought Gian Luigi Bonelli and Aurelio Galleppini's celebrated Italian Western saga to Norwegian readers during what was arguably its most fertile mid-series period. The issue indexes all five of the saga's core recurring figures — Tex, his son Kit Willer, the fictionalized Kit Carson, the Navajo warrior Tiger Jack, and the arch-villain Mefisto — making it a concentrated showcase of the character constellation that defines the series' storytelling identity. As part of a Scandinavian reprint wave that helped establish Tex as one of the few non-Anglophone comics properties with a genuine mass readership in northern Europe, the Williams Forlag editions carry real cultural-historical weight in the documentation of Italian fumetti's international reach. Norway has remained one of the title's most enduring foreign markets, and the mid-1970s Williams run forms the foundation of that readership.
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The Norwegian Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag series launched in 1971, running monthly issues through 1976 before the license passed to Semic. GCD records confirm that issues in this run — including the 1975 numbers — reprinted material sourced from Sergio Bonelli Editore's Italian Tex Gigante digest series, with books printed in Finland under the Williams Forlag A/S imprint and the 'W Williams' brand. The specific Italian source issues for #3/1975 have not been identified in available online records, though neighbouring issues draw from Tex Gigante volumes published in 1973–1974, placing the reprinted content squarely in the mature Bonelli-era run.
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- Published March 1975 by Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag (Norway) as part of a monthly Norwegian-language reprint series that ran continuously from 1971 through late 1976.
- The series reprinted stories from Sergio Bonelli Editore's Italian Tex Gigante digest, translated into Norwegian; issues were physically printed in Finland.
- Tex Willer himself was created by writer Gian Luigi Bonelli and illustrator Aurelio Galleppini (pen name: Galep) and first published in Italy on 30 September 1948.
- Mefisto (real name Steve Dickart), indexed in this issue, is Tex's longest-running nemesis: he debuted in the Italian saga's third volume, 'Fuorilegge' ('Outlaw'), in 1964, originally as a stage illusionist and spy before evolving into a full warlock.
- The other indexed characters — Kit Carson (a fictional take on the historical frontiersman), Kit Willer (Tex's half-Navajo son), and Tiger Jack (a Navajo warrior) — form the core 'Pards' group that accompanies Tex across virtually the entire saga.
- The Williams Forlag Norwegian run is confirmed by the Grand Comics Database as a distinct 1971 series, with numbering that continued into a separate Semic series beginning with #1/1977.
- Norway is documented as one of the title's most sustained foreign markets; the Tex series has been described as among the most popular Italian comics with translations into numerous languages worldwide.
- No dedicated key-issue database entry (Key Collector, GoCollect, etc.) for this specific Norwegian edition was located during research — it remains sparsely documented in English-language collector resources.