Futura

Futura was a review of cartoons of “small size” (13 X 18 cm) more or less related with the Comic S. Publiée of August 1972 in April 1975 by the editions Lug, it had thirty-three numbers.

Series

Composed exclusively of creations of the editor in the kind of the science fiction, it published in particular:

Jaleb telepathic the : extraterrestrial telepathic which - as Superman - had grown on Earth.
Homicron : a superman who had obtained his capacities while amalgamating with an extraterrestrial entity.
Larry Canon (Year Casabianca): an investigator of an insurance company trying to dam up the invasion of the Earth by an extraterrestrial parasite.
the temporal Brigade (Edmond Ripoll): a group of police officers of the time which endeavoured to maintain the course of the History vis-a-vis malefic temporal travellers.
Jeff Sullivan
Sibilla (Luciano Bernasconi): a journalist of magazine with feeling which fought supernatural threats.

All these characters were then re-used by Jean-Marc Lofficier for Semic and they appear from now on in the catalog of Hexagon Comics. Except rare exceptions, the majority of these stories were written by Claude-Jacques Legrand which was the pincipal scenario writer of the Lug house at that time.

Covers

The cover of the first number of Futura is of Jean-Yves Mitton. Those of the n° 2,4,6,8 to 20 are of Jean Frisano, the others having been realized in Italy.

In spite of undeniable qualities, Futura pained to find its public and had to stop quickly.

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