Ilpo Lagerstedt from Finland has written a book about Tex Willer, the very famous Italian Western character, which after 54 years is still going strong in Italia and after 48 years in Finland, too, Ilpo tells Seriejournalen Online. The publisher is Jalava Kustannus, Bulevardi 19C, 00120 Helsinki, Finland.
Ilpo sends us a complete overview of the contents of his book:

I Tex in sight / Introduction, preface

Tex and me, How I did find Tex back in fifties
From West to East, The imagination of Wild West in America and Europe
Gianluigi Bonelli ja Aurelio Galleppini, the creators of Tex
Italia in the year zero, The violent political situation in Italia after the war and especially in 1948 when Tex was born
Scrocconi of West
What/Who is the Westerner?

II The short history of Tex

Per tutti i diavoli, che mi siano ancora alle costole? Damn it! Who are those who follow me?
Outlaw
Segret agent
The hero of the war of freedom
This man is mine
The widow and single parent
On the way to North
End of the continuity

III My name is Willer, Tex Willer

The home of Tex
Along the time and against it
He made him to his own image
Tex indomitable
Getting rich

IIII Tex and the ladies. Never-ending path

Look at those two
Squawman
No one can charm me anymore
The light festoon/vite ( Sex in Tex)

V Companions

Grat Kit Carson
Tiger Jack, stoneface
Kit. In the shadow the father
Marshall, Montales, Morisco and others
..And enemies

VI The art of violence

Italia in year of the danger
Confrontation and showdown
The lecagy of Wyatt Earp
The right to the force
The code of Tex
The critic of the violence
The promises and threats
The structual violence=the crooks inside the society

VII Law and justice

The hell with the law
..What about the justice?
Lawmen
The vigilants
The rangers

VIII Tex Willer and the indians

The idea of indians in Tex
Tex and the art of dialogue
The indianization of Tex
Bonelli"s opinion about the genocide of indians
The military

VIIII Others on the way of West

Chinamen
African americans
Mexico
The closed communities
The race conflicts

X At the edge of the fundamental questions

The angel of the righteousness
Cospel according to Tex
An eye for an eye
The earth, the water and the fire (Tex and Caston Bachelard)
The white mans"s burden

XII The man has character

Tex about Tex
The inner critic
The last words
Clint, Corto and others

XII FORZA YEAAH!

Classic Tex
Postmodern Tex.
Vamos!

The sources and the literature