I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.
Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.