Editing Corto Maltese (section)

==Publication history<!--'Corto Maltese (magazine)' redirects here-->==
The character debuted in the serial ''[[The Ballad of the Salty Sea|Ballad of the Salty Sea]]'', one of several Pratt stories published in the first edition of the Ivaldi Editore [[Comics anthology|comics magazine]] ''[[Sergeant Kirk (magazine)|Sergeant Kirk]]'' in July 1967.<ref name="lambiek">{{Cite web|last=Lambiek Comiclopedia|title=Hugo Pratt|url=http://lambiek.net/artists/p/pratt_h.htm}}</ref> The story centers around smugglers and pirates in the World War I–era [[Pacific Islands]]. In 1970, Pratt moved to France and began a series of short ''Corto Maltese'' stories for the French comics magazine ''[[Pif Gadget]]'', an arrangement lasting four years and producing many 20-page stories. In 1974 he returned to full-length stories, sending Corto to 1918 [[Siberia]] in the story ''Corto Maltese in Siberia'', first serialised in the Italian comics magazine ''[[Linus (magazine)|Linus]]''.

In 1976, ''[[The Ballad of the Salty Sea|Ballad of the Salty Sea]]'' was published in book format and was awarded the [[Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Comic Book|prize for best foreign realistic comic album]] at the [[Angoulême International Comics Festival]].<ref name="toutenBD-awards76">{{cite web | url =http://www.toutenbd.com/article.php3?id_article=848 | title =Le Palmarès 1976 | last =ToutEnBD | language =French | url-status =dead | archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20070313075212/http://www.toutenbd.com/article.php3?id_article=848 | archivedate =2007-03-13 }}</ref>

Pratt continued to produce new stories over the next two decades, many first appearing in the eponymous comics magazine '''''Corto Maltese'''''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> (published between October 1983 and July 1993), until 1988 when the final story ''Mu, the Lost Continent'' was serialised, ending in June 1989.

On October 7, 2014, Italian publisher Cong, who owns the rights to Corto Maltese, announced that a new album was being made by writer [[Juan Díaz Canales]] and artist Rubén Pellejero.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cortomaltese.com/blog/2014/10/07/still-alive-and-coming-back/ |title=Still alive… and coming back &#124; Corto Maltese &#124; English |website=cortomaltese.com |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709035355/http://cortomaltese.com/blog/2014/10/07/still-alive-and-coming-back/ |archive-date=9 July 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> "Under the Midnight Sun" was released in Europe on September 30, 2015  and takes place in 1915. In September 2017, a second album, "Equatoria" set in 1911 was published. In November 2019, a third album, "All Saints Day" set in 1912–1913 was published. The fourth album by Canales and Pellejero was published in September 2022, entitled "Berlin Nocturne". It takes place in Berlin and Prague in 1924.  A fifth album by Canales and Pellejero set in Mexico, "Life Line" was published in October 2024.