Monday, September 12, 2011

EARLY WAR-TIME FRENCH WAR COMICS

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Above scan is of a panel from the 8th installement of 'Vatan İçin [For the Homeland]' from the back cover o no. 36 (dated Mar. 11th,...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

ATTACK OF THE GIANT INSECTS

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Above scan of a panel from 'Dünya Düşmanı [Enemy of the World]', an obscure science fiction comics of French origin serialized in t...
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Saturday, September 10, 2011

SHARK SCENE IN PRE-WAR COMICS

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Above scan is from the no.1 (dated July 10th, 1939) of Turkey's 1001 Roman , featuring a shark scene from the first installement of ...
Friday, September 9, 2011

FANTASTIC GIANT OCTOPUS ATTACK SCENE IN PRE-WAR COLONIALIST COMICS

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Above scans are from the no. 19 (dated Nov. 13th, 1939) of Turkey's 1001 Roman , featuring an installement of 'Gizli Ülke [Secret Co...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

ANOTHER OCTOPUS ATTACK SCENE

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Above scan is from the no. 100 (dated June 2nd, 1941) of Turkey's comics weekly 1001 Roman , featuring the 13th installement of an obscu...
Monday, September 5, 2011

GIANT OCTOPUS ATTACK SCENE IN PRE-WAR COMICS

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Above scans are from the 13th and 14th installements of 'Denizaltı Tüneli [Undersea Tunnel]', an pre-war comics serialized in the Tu...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

TURKISH MANDRAKE MOVIE

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The first adaptation of Mandrake the Magician to cinema was in the form of a serial in 1940. The first -and so far, only- Mandrake feature...
Monday, August 29, 2011

MANDRAKE'S RETURN TO X

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Mandrake the Magician had a few science-fiction adventures in the pre-war era, but, if I am not mistaken, none in the 1940s until 'The A...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

MANDRAKE'S FIRST SCI-FI ADVENTURE (1936-37)

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Mandrake the Magician's first foray into science-fiction was with his 5th Sunday newspaper comics continuity, 'Chamber into the X-...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

TRACED REPRINT MANDRAKE COMICS IN TURKEY - PART 2 (1960S)

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When Bilge Şakrak took over the publication of Red Kit , the traced Turkish editions of Lucky Luke, from Bilgi Yayınları (owned by apparen...
Friday, August 12, 2011

MANDRAKE IN AFACAN (1942-43)

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While Mandrake the Magician was already being serialized in Türkiye Yayınevi's 1001 Roman during the war-time era, it also appeared si...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

TRACED REPRINT MANDRAKE COMICS IN TURKEY - PART I (1950S)

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Several low-budget publishers who emerged in the post-war era of comics publishing in Turkey began a trend of printing comics from traced ...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

OBSCURE MANDRAKE PUBLICATIONS FROM TURKEY (1940-51)

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In 1939, a fad of publishing " sinema romanları [cinema novels]", novelizations of movies, emerged among low-budget publishers ...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

MANDRAKE IN 1001 ROMAN SPECIAL ISSUES (1940-46)

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Between 1940-46, Türkiye Yayınevi published monthly "special issues" of 1001 Roman alongside the weekly comics magazine of the ...

MANDRAKE IN 1001 ROMAN (1939-46)

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In 1939, shortly before the outbreak of the 2nd World War, Tahsin Demiray's Türkiye Yayınevi, one of the leading pulishers of popular ...