The comic series was created in 1972 by Romano Garofalo as writer and by Leone Cimpellin (under the pen name "Ghilbert") as artist and it was published monthly by Edizioni Dardo. The comic series, similar in its structure to Alan Ford, featured a Milanese crackpot team of bounty hunters grappling with topical problems of the Italy of the time, such as terrorism, mafia infiltration in politics, abrogative referendum about divorce, taxes, internal emigration. The comics achieved a large commercial success, with a circulation of over 100,000 copies per month and a number of fan clubs all over Italy. The series was also published in France, Greece and Jugoslavia.