Edizioni Alpe

[2] Although Alpe primarily concentrated on comics, it also published popular fiction magazines after Caregaro took over Edizioni Economiche Italiane and its back catalogue in 1940.

Alpe became a limited liability company in 1944 with Caregaro as its managing director, but much of the editorial supervision and administration was carried out by the writer Leonello Martini.

With the success of Cucciolo, which by the early 1950s was selling almost as well as Mondadori's Topolino, the company was on a more secure financial footing and was able to move into a four-room apartment in nearby Via Piolti de' Bianchi.

Martini took over as its managing director followed in 1976 by Teresa Comelli who had been a secretary and administrator with the company since its early postwar years.

Alpe became increasingly dependent on republishing earlier comics and eventually ceased operating in the late 1980s.