Valentina #1

Published by Rizzoli Libri in 1990, this Italian edition opens Crepax's Valentina series with "Nessuno," showcasing the complete artistic vision of Guido Crepax — writer, artist, inker, and letterer all in one. The cover, rendered entirely by Crepax, presents a striking scene: a nude young woman stands tall among jagged rock formations while a large, vividly colored serpent looms in the upper left, its gaze fixed and unsettling. It's a haunting, mythologically charged image that immediately signals the sophisticated, boundary-pushing sensibility Crepax brought to Italian comics.