Chico Kolor #5: Fantast Chico

In Fantast Chico, Zagor and Chico return to Mount Naatani, where they last faced Doctor Hellingen. Chico is curious about the cabin in which the scientist disappeared. He soon learns what it does the hard way: it is a teleportation device, and it sends him to the planet Babelia, far from Zagor and everything he knows.

Babelia’s unusual inhabitants entrust their visitor with a dangerous assignment: he is to take on their tyrant, Kokodix. Until then, Chico was only trying to work out what happened to Hellingen. Now he is expected to solve someone else’s problem on a planet he has barely had time to get his bearings on. The gap between the size of the job and the man given it is where the comedy begins.

Guido Nolitta starts from a familiar setting in Zagor’s adventures and gives Chico a story of his own. Hellingen’s invention links the two worlds, while Gallieno Ferri uses the leap from Mount Naatani to Babelia to change the look of the adventure, replacing familiar woodland with a world of peculiar creatures. The space mission gives Chico a chance to show what he can do when everyone is counting on him.