Il Piccolo Sceriffo (i.e. "The Little Sheriff") was an Italian comic book series created by writer Tristano Torelli with illustrator Camillo Zuffi and later developed by numerous authors.

A western series featuring a teenage hero, it debuted on June 10, 1948 and got an immediate success.

[1] Each issue was a self-contained episode of an unfolding story which recounted the adventures of the young orphan Kit Hodgkin, who after having captured the murderers of his sheriff father is acclaimed new sheriff.

[1][2][3] In 1959, inspired by the success of Intrepido, the publication adopted a similar pocket format, changed its name in Il Nuovo Sceriffo ("The New Sheriff") and became a proper comic magazine presenting several additional adventure series, while the main series was renamed Kid lo sceriffo ("Kid The Sheriff").

[2] The comic book series inspired two novels, Il Piccolo Sceriffo (1951) and Artiglio nero (1952), written by Tristano Torelli and Gianna Arguissola, with illustrations by Ferdinando Tacconi, and an erotic photonovel series, published in the magazine Caballero in 1972.