Saturday, April 30, 2011

SKIT, SKAT AND CAPTAIN IN MICKEY MOUSE XMAS SPECIAL (1939)

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One of the few excursions of Basil Reynolds' 'Skit, Skat and Captain' out of Mickey Mouse Weekly , where it had debutted (see th...

MARMADUKE IN COLOR (1942) AND THE RETURN OF MARMADUKE (1947)

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British comics artist Basil Reynolds, who had been on board at Britain's Mickey Mouse Weekly comics magazine since its launch in 1936, ...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

SUSKE EN WISKE (BOB ET BOBETTE)

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'Suske en Wiske' is a Dutch-language newspaper comics serial from Belgium which had debutted in 1945 and still being run in its home...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

FANTOMAS (1941)

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Historically speaking, the most important comics serialized in the wartime French comics weekly Gavroche was 'Fantômas', the first-...
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Sunday, February 27, 2011

DEMONAX (1941)

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Perhaps the most interesting comics series in the wartime French comics weekly Gavroche were 'Le clan des hommes oiseaux [The Clan of B...
Monday, February 14, 2011

PROF. GLOBULE VS DR. VIRUS (1941-42)

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'Le professeur Globule contre le docteur Virus' was one of the fantastique oriented comics published in the war-time French comics w...
Friday, February 11, 2011

KID BROWN (1941)

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Beginning today, I will start covering some French-made comics published in the war-time era French comics magazine Gavroche for the next f...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

THE FLOP FAMILY

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'The Flop Family' is an American newspaper humour strip, featuring a middle-class family, by artist George Swanson (1897-1981, who s...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

ALADDIN JUNIOR

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One of the non-Disneyic comics ran in Britain's Mickey Mouse comics magazine in the wartime era was 'Aladdin Jr.', chronicling...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

TURKISH-MADE PHANTOM COMICS FROM CIRCA 1944

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Proabably the rarest piece in my collection of war-era Turkish comics is this issue of the bi-weekly 1001 Macera magazine which features a ...
Monday, October 11, 2010

RADIO FUN

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Radio Fun was a British weekly magazine featuring comics based on popular radio shows and/or radio personalities. It was published between ...
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Saturday, October 9, 2010

TURKISH AD FOR MANDRAKE SERIAL

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Above scan from no. 303 (dated Sept. 6th, 1940) of Turkish children's magazine Çocuk Sesi Afacan is an ad for the upcoming Sept. 12 rel...
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Thursday, October 7, 2010

TARZAN COMICS IN TURKEY IN THE WARTIME ERA (AND BEYOND)

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The serialization of Tarzan comics in b&w in Ülkü's children's weekly magazine Afacan , where comics of E.R.Burrough's jungl...

TARZAN COMICS IN TURKEY IN THE PRE-WAR ERA - PART II: ILLUSTRATED STORY BOOKS BASED ON COMICS

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While the US daily newspaper strip continuity 'Tarzan and Leopard Men' was being serialized in the Turkish weekly children's mag...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

TARZAN COMICS IN TURKEY IN THE PRE-WAR ERA - PART I: AFACAN

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Tarzan comics, which were being serialized in the US newspapers since 1929, made their Turkish debut in b&w in the children's weekly...
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Saturday, October 2, 2010

TURKISH-MADE 'SON OF TARZAN' COMICS FROM 1945

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Starting from no. 133 (dated July 14th, 1945), a comics titled 'Tarzanın Oğlu [Son of Tarzan]' and credited to Turkish artist Mehmet...
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Friday, October 1, 2010

EKREM DÜLEK'S PUBLISHED SKETCHES FROM 1940

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While looking through my collection of the war-time issues of Turkish children's magazine Afacan , I've come across this 'how t...