Friday, June 25, 2010

SPADGER'S ISLE

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Above scan is of the cover of no. 991 (dated Feb. 7th, 1942) of British children's weekly The Wizard , featuring the humorous comics kno...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

DEBUT OF BASIL REYNOLDS' PINKY GREEN (1940)

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Above scan is from no. 217 (dated Mar. 30th, 1940) of Britain's Mickey Mouse Weekly , featuring the debut of Basil Reynolds' Pinky G...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

DEBUT OF BASIL REYNOLDS' SKIT AND SKAT (1936)

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Above scan is of the debut of British comics artist Basil Reynolds' 'Adventures of Skit and Skat' in no. 1 (dated Feb 8th, 1936...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

'THE ADVENTURES OF SIR ENDOR NEVAH THE KNUTTY KNIGHT' (1938)

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'The Adventures of Sir Endor Nevah the Knutty Knight' is a very interesting humorous adventure comics serialized in Britain's Mi...

'HEAVENLY TWINS' (1936)

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Above scan is of the first installement of the gag-a-week comics 'Heavenly Twins' ran in Britain's Mickey Mouse Weekly in 1936 ...
Sunday, February 7, 2010

THE GREEN MEN (1935)

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In this post, I present select images (uploaded last month to the outducks archive by user Mankkop) from a great-looking Italian comics set ...
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Friday, February 5, 2010

FILM FUN

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I give a break to my coverage of the pre-history of comics in Turkey to post scans from two pre-war issues of the British film comics magazi...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

DEBUT OF BRINGING UP FATHER IN TURKEY (1925)

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Esin Bayraktar provides a detailed coverage of the very interesting debut of 'Bringing Up Father' in Turkey in her article 'Seni...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

EARLIEST KNOWN CONTINUITY COMICS PUBLISHED IN TURKEY (1925-26)

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Currently available research so far indicates that the earliest continuity comics published in Turkey had appeared in a periodical titled Re...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

EARLIEST KNOWN GAG-COMICS PUBLISHED IN TURKEY (1913-14)

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Prior to the introduction of the Latin alphabet in 1928, the Arabic script was used in Turkey. The illegibility of pre-1928 Turkish publicat...
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Sunday, January 17, 2010

RUPERT BEAR IN TURKEY

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The ever-popular British comic strip Rupert Bear, created in 1920 for Daily Express and still running today!, was serialized in Turkish chi...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

TWO ORIENTALIST ADVENTURE COMICS FROM MMW (1936-37)

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In this post, I will cover two orientalist adventure comics serialized in Britain's Mickey Mouse Weekly . 'Gordon Gale - Air Rover...
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Saturday, November 28, 2009

GRACE DRAYTON'S PUSSYCAT PRINCESS IN TURKEY

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'The Pussycat Princess', created by Grace Drayton (1877-1936), one of the first female comics artists in the world, was serialized i...
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OBSCURE CHILDREN'S ADVENTURE COMICS FROM 1930'S

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An obscure children's adventure comics with fantasy elements was serialized in the Turkish children's magazine Çocuk Sesi between 1...