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It does look as if the collector took great care of them. The staples also seem to have been carefully removed without any unnecessary tears.

Thank you. I've considered ebay. The problem is I live in Denmark and haven't sold anything on ebay in at least 15 years so potential buyers would probably be wary.

I have a selection of original detached FF covers from Kirby's classic run that were originally purchased by a collector who had the interior pages privately bound. Does anyone know what the value of such things could be? Here are some highlights.

Green Arrow even ended up being called Røde Pil (Red Arrow) in Danish back then.

Some Danish examples from the 50's...

You need the Danish. ;)

The remarkable thing is that despite being German, Swiss and Austrian they all speak Danish in these drawings. ;)

The Mexican non-canon books relied heavily on swiping. José Luis Duran's art in the issue in the ebay auction, for example, is swiped from John Romita's art in Daredevil # 18.

Skipper Skræk would also occasionally do some quirky covers, like this Laurel & Hardy from 1947.  Or, as they were called in Denmark, Gøg & Gokke. Kids were encouraged to use their heads as masks, which is why there are dots on each ear to indicate where you could punch a hole, pull a string through and create your own mask. This must also be the reason why this issue is quite rare, as many issues must have been destroyed by kids eager to perform their own Laurel & Hardy shows. Even when I grew up in the 70's and 80's our national broadcast tv station would air their movies - along with Chaplin, Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers - on a weekly basis.

Captain Marvel Jr. and Mary Marvel in Danish comics anthology Skipper Skræk 1947-48. In Danish they were called Atom-pigen (the Atom Girl) and Atom-drengen (the Atom Boy). These were published here before the appearance of any independent superhero titles. First Danish superhero title was Superman # 1 in 1950.

I would be grateful to hear how you would grade this book?

What would you grade this book?

A couple of cool locally drawn Danish Superman covers from 1952.

On 3/14/2023 at 5:12 PM, Kromak said:

Some interesting foreign pulps and comics will be auctioned tonight at Comic Connect:

 

https://www.comicconnect.com/browse/set/63455?page=1

 

 

Yes, a 6.5 of the Mexican Spider-Man wedding issue sold in the fall for $ 35,000.

On 3/13/2023 at 11:12 PM, andyborehol said:

I love all of the background info, thanks! “X-Mændene” seems to be the literal translation of “X-men”…any idea why they made the change to “Projekt X?” Do you think that it was just a marketing decision, or does “X-Mændene” sound odd in the context of the language?

They changed the translation because X-Mændene sounds way too gendered in Danish, as 'mænd' is plural for 'mand', which literally means a male, as opposed to the more generic, less gendered 'man' (human) that you have in English. And since the team consists of both men and women the name Projekt X was deemed to be more fitting.

This reminds me also of the Danish translation of the classic French sci fi series Valérian, which is not only about Valérian but also his partner Laureline, so when this series was introduced in Denmark in 1975 the Danish editors decided to change the title to Linda & Valentin.

Here you can see how a panel from the Superman story "The Modern Nostradamus", originally published in Action Comics # 125 in 1948, is redrawn into a new, locally designed cover on the Danish Superman # 2 from 1952. And how the panel on the pages inside is altered from its full color US version to the Danish black/white/red version, which is how these Danish Superman were printed in the early 50's. Notice also that the speech balloons and text boxes were redrawn in the Danish edition.

On 3/13/2023 at 7:29 PM, andyborehol said:

In honor of all of these books from Denmark, here’s my entire Danish collection:

 

Last but not least, this comic includes Incredible Hulk #179, 180 & 181. Interestingly, Wolverine was originally referred to as “Ulvemanden” which translates to “The Wolf Man” (according to Google Translate). Since then he has been “Jærven”, which is a more accurate translation of “Wolverine.”

Great books! I translated the second Danish edition of Miller's Wolverine many years later. The second edition has the same cover as the US # 1. Notice that they removed the crossbow on the cover of the first Danish edition.

Seeing that Hulk with the first Wolverine also makes me feel all nostalgic, as I remember buying that as a kid and wondering who the heck this 'Ulvemanden' was. Back then I really had no idea who the X-Men were, as they didn't have their own series here at that time. They'd been briefly published here in 1973-74 as X-Mændene but I was merely an infant then, and then they were re-introduced in 1984 as Projekt X. Here's a beat up copy of one of the X-Mændene.

On 3/7/2023 at 5:20 PM, Kromak said:

Great collection. I wonder if number 6 (from 1951?) , was inspired by US Superman 47?

 

Upgrades:

 

 

Disney Especial may well be Disney's most successful new title released from the 70's anywhere in the world

 

By the way, while last times has showed some difficult moments for the US comic book collecting market, Brazil's has showed some really strong results, especially for the US Uncle Scrooge title. In a few weeks some ultra scarce 50's Mickey will go on auction and I think this trend will persist.

Figured out the cover to # 6 is derived from the first splash page inside.

And then we didn't have any EC until many years later where we had two short runs, Gysertimen in 1987 and Skræk in 1994.