Zagor – Kolor #1: Duhovi kapetana Fishlega

In Duhovi kapetana Fishlega (The Ghosts of Captain Fishleg), the captain of the Golden Baby calls Zagor and Chico to Rochester on Lake Ontario. The captain, whose real name is Charles Humboldt, is in danger: a man thought to have died in a shipwreck has turned up again. His return forces Fishleg to speak about a part of his life he has kept from even his closest friends.

The captain’s whalebone leg is at the heart of the mystery. How did Fishleg lose his right leg? Who carved its replacement, and why has he never told Zagor and Chico the story? What readers have long known as his distinguishing feature becomes a clue to the events that have put his life in danger.

Moreno Burattini devised the story, and Jacopo Rauch’s script links the threat in Rochester to the captain’s years at sea. It was Walter Venturi’s first published work on Zagor and the story that launched Color Zagor. Putting Fishleg at the centre of the first issue gives one of Zagor’s longtime allies a chance to tell his own story, with a familiar detail from earlier adventures driving the plot.