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omen play an important role in the Mister No stories. The pilot has ever so |
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many "girl friends", virtually one in every airport, but he's not the type of guy to
commit himself to a "serious" relationship. Mister No's partners are always
self-sufficient and independent-minded modern women, even though the comic strip
series is set in the Fifties.
Here are some of the main female protagonists who have appeared more
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| once in this series: the North-American archaeologist
Patricia Rowlands, who often involves the pilot in the hunt for vestiges
of ancient ruins; the passionate Miranda Cordeiro,
the daughter of a Sertão landowner, who is central to almost all the adventures |
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that take place in this
area of Brazil; the reckless aviator Debora who spins the web of Jerry's intrigues between the U.S.A. and South America;
the three cute "garotas" - Madalena, Irene and
Maria who run the bar Ipanema in Belèm, but have also practised - and will
in the future practise - their profession in many other places in wild Brazil;
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Barrett
Whitaker, with whom our pilot has an affair.
One woman from the last New York period deserves a special mention, Darlene
Faithful, an unmarried mother who gets very deeply involved with Jerry, but then their love story is suddenly broken up by the mandatory departure of our hero from the United States.
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HIS ENEMIES |
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Merciless adventurers, profiteers, smugglers, killers…
cruel men who transform the paradise of Amazonia into a hell! |
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