In the swinging sixties, the most famous comic heroine in Europe was born in Milan: Valentina. Her creator, the trained architect Guido Crepax, crafted this character into an icon of European comics and subsequently became a star in the international scene himself. Valentina is a heroine unlike any that had come before: confident and sexy. In the German-speaking world, Valentina was published only sporadically. The avant-verlag now lays the foundation for a long-overdue complete edition in bibliophile design with this first collected volume. "Valentina established Crepax's reputation as one of the most significant interpreters of erotic comics." Andreas C. Knigge.