

He was also related to actor Boris Karloff (né William Henry Pratt). The magazine maintained regular distribution until December 1969, and was issued sporadically during the 1970s.Born in Rimini, Italy to Rolando Prat and Evelina Genero, Hugo Pratt spent most of his childhood in Venice in a very cosmopolitan family environment. This carried showcased work from the Argentine period, as well as the series Luck Star O'Hara, Gli Scorpioni del Deserto, and the first publication of Corto Maltese in the story Una Ballata del Mare Salato.

Sergeant Kirk ( Italian: Il Sergente Kirk) was chosen as the name of the magazine Pratt launched in Italy in July 1967, aided financially by the patron Florenzo Ivaldi. Forbes and the Native American boy, Maha. Among Kirk's companions appearing in the series are "El Corto", Dr. An essentially noble man, Kirk treats even his enemies with tolerance and humanitarianism.

Army, Kirk deserts and devotes himself to defending the Indians. Forced to participate in a massacre of American Indians by the U.S. Sergeant Kirk is a former soldier of the American Civil War who goes on to serve in the post-war Wild West. An additional Sargento Kirk story was published in 1973 in the magazine Billiken, drawn by Gustavo Trigo. It ran until 1961 with drawings by Pratt, Jorge Moliterni, Horacio Porreca and Gisela Dexter. Sargento Kirk continued its run in Misterix until issue 475 on December 20, 1957, when Oesterheld's own publishing house Editorial Frontera was established, and the series resumed in the Frontera magazines Frontera Extra and Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal. The series, originally created in Argentina during the Golden Age of Argentine Comics, was first published in issue 225 of the weekly comics magazine Misterix on January 9, 1953. Kirk ( Spanish: El Sargento Kirk) is the main character of the Western comics series of the same title by Italian comic book creator Hugo Pratt and Argentine author Héctor Germán Oesterheld. El Sargento Kirk on the front page of Misterix no.
