Danger: Diabolik (1968) was adapted from a comic that has been a social phenomenon in Italy for over fifty years.
This study examines its status as a comic-book movie, traces its production and initial reception in Italy, France, the U.
S., and the UK, and its cult afterlife as both a pop-art classic and campy "bad film.".
Danger: Diabolik (1968) was adapted from a comic that has been a social phenomenon in Italy for over fifty years