Happyfarm

Yes, they must have been printed at the same time and then cut afterwards. They published 39 issues all in all in 1958 so I would assume they were published on a weekly basis. Around 15 of them had Superman or Superboy on the cover. And then there were around 4 with Batman on the cover.

Yeah, it's a weirdly cool cover. This copy is in a bit of a rough shape so if you're interested you can have it for $ 30. I also have other Raketserier with Superman.

As far as I can see the photos are still visible? Did you get your # 33 at Heritage last fall? https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/raket-serier-33-danish-edition-forlaget-interpresse-1958-cgc-fn-55-off-white-to-white-pages/a/40210-83306.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515 If you're ever interested in other issues I have some extra copies for sale. Many of the Superman covers are quite cool.

Oh well... apparently Sprang's first name is so controversial that it's automatically changed to MR.

By the way, in my eyes MR. Sprang's art looks absolutely stunning printed in b/w in these Raketserier... despite the panels being reformatted. The story "A White Feather for Batman!", originally printed in World's Finest # 49 in late 1950, was reformatted and spread out over numerous issues of Raketserier.

And then after hibernating for four years he returned in Raketserier in 1958 and once again had to accept being misnomed Red Arrow. ;)

But when Danish Superman went full color in 1953-54 he was once again Green Arrow (Grønne Pil).

Here's an example of why Green Arrow ended up being called Red Arrow (Røde Pil) in Danish.

There's also this US cover, which looks a bit similar.

Thank you. It took me many years to complete it. I still need to upgrade my # 1, though, but it's just such an impossible book to find.

And my complete collection of Danish Superman 1950-54. The series folded in 1954 due to a moral uproar similar to what happened in the US after Wertham published The Seduction of the Innocent. In the first couple of issues Batman was called Læderlappen, which makes absolutely no sense in Danish since it means 'The Leather Patch'. It was probably simply copied from the Swedish issues where the word 'Läderlappen' at least also means 'bat'.

And here are some Danish Raketserier published in 1958 when superheroes were virtually non-existant in Denmark (the Superman title had folded in 1954, and there would be no other superhero titles in Denmark until the mid-60's). As you can see the publisher resized and reformatted the panels inside to fit the smaller, oblong format, often even redrawing parts of the panels. The locally designed covers were also based on redrawn versions swiped from panels inside.

Yes, that was actually the cover used for the first Danish Superman book ever published (in November 1950).

Danish Superman # 14 from 1951 with Batman and Røde Pil (Red Arrow). Super rare. This book includes "Prankster's Second Childhood", one of the infamous stories Fredric Wertham emphasized as especially damaging to kids in 'The Seduction of the Innocent' (1954) because of a panel where one of the Prankster's goons shoots a police officer in the face (with what looks like a harmless water pistol). The Danish Superman comics from 1950-52 are undoubtedly the most difficult Danish superhero comics to find. These early issues are extremely fragile, printed on thin paper with the cover being printed on the same stock as the inside pages. They were printed with red as the only color except for some splash pages (which is why Green Arrow ended up being called Røde Pil/Red Arrow in Danish). They also include the earliest appearances of Batman, Superboy and Green Arrow in Denmark. These issues also had very unique, locally drawn covers, which for the most part were only published in Denmark, though the theory is that they were most likely produced at the publisher's headquarters in Sweden, although this has never been finally documented. Notice how the cover drawing is swiped from a panel inside.

I have this Danish Superman from 1951, which includes "Prankster's Second Childhood", originally published in Superman # 55, a story that apparently horrified Wertham due to one of the goons shooting a police officer in the face (with what looks to be a harmless water pistol) on the first splash page. What makes the Danish edition unique is that (unlike the American) it sports a locally drawn cover based on a panel from the Prankster story.