Corto Maltese #17 was published by RCS MediaGroup on February 1, 1985, as part of a series that began in 1983. Hugo Pratt and Pierre Christin write, and art comes from Enki Bilal, Milo Manara and Patrizia Zanotti. It features Corto Maltese, Robinson Crusoe, Captain Rasputin, Abner Lewis and Jeremiah Lewis, among 15 characters catalogued on VerseDB.