A young witch with magic powers,[1] she was created by Dino Leonetti with text by Furio Arrasich.
[3] The Maghella comic book was started in January 1974,[4] lasting for 140 issues published by Publistrip until March 1981.
[5][6] The girl is identified by two unbraided pigtails of black hair, giant breasts, and unspecified powers and magic, hence her name, meaning "little witch" in Italian.
Her most typical exclamation is "Holy Shit", repeated in every adventure: these were also the first words she speaks in the first appearance in Menelik.
Other figures from the same era, and with similarly violent or erotic preoccupations, include Zora la Vampira, Lucifera, Biancaneve, Vartan, Jacula, Jolanda de Almaviva, Sukia, and Yra.