WHO WE ARE

The company MAX BUNKER PRESS owns its name to the legendary MAX BUNKER, one of the noble father of the Italian comic field. Max Bunker, pen-name of Luciano Secchi, fiction and movie plot writer, journalist , editor and publisher, even at the beginning of his career (1962) was successful with a spaghetti western Maschera Nera (Black Mask). But the real and most important event was the creation of character such as Kriminal and Satanik (1964), called noir-comics a revolution that changed the face at the Italian comics taste.

Other characters followed up Dennis Cobb (a secret agent) and El Gringo (spaghetti western) both in 1965, Gesebel (a science-fiction comedy) in 1966, then Maxmagnus (political, satirical plot in the middle age) and Milord (a classy thief in the beginning of the century) both in 1968 up to the character judged by everybody his masterpiece and Alan Ford (1969) that this year reaches its 32° anniversary. A short mention for the other characters created since that date, Fouché (French revolution years) in 1973, Daniel (a detective story blue) in 1974, Cliff (a modern version of Dr. Jeckyll) and Xibor (an unusual secret agent) both in 1979, Angel Dark (an hard-boiled comic) in 1990, Kerry Kross (a private eye former FBI agent) in 1994, the psychiatric Beverly Kerr (2000) and finally Father Kimberly (2001). Max Bunker has written many thriller book , successful is the series of the Milanese detective Riccardo Finzi, 14 books that had also a movie version. Max Bunker founded Eureka magazine comics for mature readers that printed for the first time in Italy character as Spirit by Will Eisner, Andy Capp by Reg Smythe and may other and in its page appeared in Italy the very first comic from Japan, "Golgo 13". In 1970 Max Bunker brought in Italy the Marvel super-heroes created by Stan Lee as Spiderman, Fantastic Four, Hulk and many others became a smash hit.

All characters created by Max Bunker: