Johnny Beat [Collana Diligenza]

A short-lived but visually distinctive Italian western series from Edizioni Cervinia, Johnny Beat ran for just five issues between 1967 and 1968. The strip was written by Al Saio and painted by Amerigo Arrigoni, whose fully painted artwork set it apart from the more typical ink-and-line comics of the era. It stands as a curious artifact of the late-1960s Italian fumetti boom, blending the spaghetti western genre with a uniquely painterly approach.