EDIFUMETTO-SQUALO COMICS

Edifumetto (also known as Editrice Squalo, Squalo Comics and Edifumetto 3000), was an Italian publishing house founded in 1972 by Renzo Barbieri, active mainly in the 1970s and 1980s in the field of Italian pornographic erotic comics in pocket format. Together with Ediperiodici, its main competitor in the adult comics sector, it monopolized the sector with successful series in different genres, such as Zora the Vampire, in the horror genre, or Snow White, in the humor genre, and many others in the non-erotic genre by famous authors such as Magnus. In the period of greatest success, about twenty erotic paperbacks were published every month, but in the late 1980s, adult videotapes decreed their end; the last great success was a non-erotic series, Paninaro, which sold more than 100,000 copies per month, but was short-lived.