Coroto Maltese. Siberia (black - white edition). Pratt U.

1919. In Europe, the war is over, but in Siberia it continues. Admiral Kolchak has just proclaimed himself the supreme ruler of Russia, and Baron von Ungern-Sternberg is preparing to establish the Great Asian Empire. Armored trains are scurrying around the vast expanses, at one of which, according to rumors, tsarist gold is transported... Chinese military rulers, Manchu gangs, allies and numerous secret societies are hunting for it. However, Corto Maltese and his eternal companion, Captain Rasputin, have his own plans on this score...

among thousands of characters created in the more than a centuries -old comic book history, only units managed to achieve the status of a myth, become one of the visiting cards ninth type of art. Coroto Maltese is one of them. A skilled sailor, an incorrigible romantic, a fiery revolutionary, a spontaneous philosopher, a noble pirate, an eternal adventurer was invented in 1967 by the Italian author of Ear Pratt. His adventures in the best traditions of Robert Lewis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and Hermann Melville forced to dream of more than one generation of readers in all corners of the globe. A person out of time, a real citizen of the world who is equally close to the blue lagons of the southern seas and the snowy expanses of Siberia, the rollers of Hong Kong and Avenids Buenos Aires... Ireland and Brazil, Samarkand and Venice, Ecuador and Caribbean, Basel and Zanzibar - these are just some stages of amazing Odyssey Captain Corto.

A series of books about Corto Maltese has repeatedly received bonuses in Italy, France, Belgium and Germany. In 2005, in the United States, the name Ogo Pratt was introduced into the Hall of Fame Will Icener.