George Kastrioti, Skanderbeg, an albanian hero of the 15th Century in the United States of America (September, 1945)
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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.cemyr.2026.34.15Keywords:
George Kastrioti, Skanderbeg, comic, Albania, second world warAbstract
The purpose of this work is to analyze the image offered by the famous 15th-century Albanian, George Kastrioti, Skanderbeg, in a comic strip published in the magazine Real Life Comics in September 1945, to try to understand how it could have been received and interpreted by the contemporary public, and for what purpose it could have been created.
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