Il Mago was an Italian comics magazine created by Mario Spagnol and published monthly by Mondadori from April 1972 to December 1980.
Il Mago was Mondadori's reply to the successful magazine Linus, published by Rizzoli.
The director was Mario Spagnol, also editor of the Oscar Mondadori, which previously had frequently featured comic books.
After six months, he was replaced by writers Fruttero and Lucentini, who had previously been the Italian translators of the comic strips B.C.
Zancan also introduced more adult characters, also open to Italian ones such as Agostino e Franco Origone's Nilus and Daniele Panebarco's Big Sleeping.