It seems Corto was born in 1887 in La Valletta in Malta, which gave him his name (Frank Miller named a country after him in Dark Knight Returns as a tribute). From then on, wherever, whenever, the globetrotting free spirit washes up, Corto Maltese is bound to become a part of history in the making. The Ballad Of The Salt Sea, serialized from 1967 in Italian magazine Sgt Kirk, relates their encounters in the South Seas with pirates, natives, and opposing navies around the time of the outbreak of the First World War. Corto is rescued by the Russian rogue, whose crew have also picked up two teenage cousins lost at sea, Cain and Pandora Groovesnore.
He spies Corto, tied spreadeagled and half-naked to a raft, left to the mercy of the Pacific ocean. Our first sighting of him is through the telescope of the pirate Rasputin. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese." The famous author of The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco said it all: "When I want to relax I read essays by Engels.
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