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Compared to the rare Temeraire issues, the "Italia Liberata" (which was actually part of a series of neo-nationalist antologic magazines) is relatively not difficult to find, in case you'll want one. No comics, these were magazines with articles and photos. The Boccasile covers were originally RSI posters.

I am a bit familiar with the Italian stamps alone, mostly date ones, and this one does not seem to be an Italian stamp. Primetime explanation seems the best one to me.

Hi, you're welcome. As I said, Marcello Vaccari is on Facebook but I do not have his contacts. I will send you a message with his Facebook profile address, if you wish. Update: I just learned there are indeed Superman stories from the 1960s written and drawn in Italy, also commissioned by Mondadori. According to the site comicsbox (should be generally quite accurate), the very first Superman 1960s story done in Italy is "Cronaca Lampo", written and drawn by Leone Cimpellin, and was published on Albi del Falco #317, which is also the italian edition of "Supergirl introduction to the world", and possibly the Supergirl on cover in Italy as well, here the details: https://www.comicsbox.it/albo/ALBIFALCO_317 Here's an old article by Marcello Vaccari on the topic (scroll down to the paragraph "Superman made in Italy"): https://www.glamazonia.it/old/articoli/albifalco/albifalco.htm

My FF #18 was from Dale as well!

“The World's Greatest Comics Magazine". Well, maybe the current authors of the book should remember this legacy…

Yes, I visited him in his Thousand Oaks home in 1991. I don't have the picture I am sure I already posted at hand (I changed computer recently) but if I find it I will post it. My interview was re-transcribed by Kirby Museum collaborators (due to interest from Rand Hoppe) and John Morrow just asked to re-publish it in the new translation and it should appear in a Kirby Collector issue from 2025, more likely 2026 (as they're all already scheduled).

Indeed, one of the most interesting publications of the period. Occupied France, and Paris in particular, are mysterious multi-layered nexuses of history. This issue has become darn rare… I noticed it was already more difficult than others when I picked the ones I sold, but while other issues surface, the early ones and this one seem to be tough!

• Non-Italian stuff: mostly on eBay, similar auction sites and European dealers when I can navigate the language (e.g. French or German). • Italian stuff: everywhere, but mostly at conventions or again antiquary booksellers online (though local portals), or auction sites. Unfortunately antiquary/vintage comics shops are very rare nowadays, as most shops started in the 1990s to follow the american initial model and started to keep just new comics / new releases. • Non-Latin based languages Countries stuff: It's a gamble indeed!

That is so nice of you… Thanks!

Very Nice!

Bathe here: — from 2 years ago (it seemed less!). And I hope in short I will have a new one, albeit smaller, incoming. Or one titled Worldwide Atomic Age / Anti-Communist items .

Did you manage to see the sales thread I did on worldwide WW2 wartime comics?

I love this thread — hard to see these days… threads like this (and members like esquirecomics) were one of the main reasons which made me decide to join the boards, over 10 years ago.

So good I logged in as I was wondering myself and thinking of writing you a message. In a very minimal and limited manner I can grasp your experience as I've been unwell since before Easter, I experienced vertigo due to cervicalgic pain, fall and broke a rib, and other stuff. I can only imagine how adapting to these limitations can be, as I have seen how relatively minimal limitations can hugely impact the most mundane daily tasks. And of course I do sympatize with your current "forced unemployment" being still working on my typeface design project and not having a fixed income. A big hug, Jimmy, God bless!

Very sporadically logging in, as I have no time and also my own collecting is pretty much freezed because of lack of income. But always joyful to show my #8…

I do not have money to put into collecting, and also time is very little, so most is "freezed"…

And being Kromak from Brazil he knows well, as together with us, they have been one of the producers. Brazilian authors also adopted very early the Italian created character "Duck Avenger" (by master Guido Martina) somewhat turning him into a sort of super-hero parody (which he was not mean to be, he was introduced as a commentary of the italian "fumetti neri" on the wave of Diabolik). Brazilian authors did fun and weird short stories where almost all of the characters have secret identities. In particular, Paper Bat ("Morcego Vermelho", Red Bat in his original Brazilian conception), Fethry Duck's unlucky superheroistic alter-ego, was created in 1973 by brazilian authors Ivan Saidenberg and Carlos Edgard Herrero, based on guidelines by our own Giovan Battista Carpi (art director of the Italian Disney school until his death in 1999). https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morcego_Vermelho Red Bat is basically "Fethry Duck playing Batman" and he's very funny at that… I attach an 1980s cover of our own title "Mega Almanacco" by italian master Marco Rota featuring him… I love this cover!

As an example: here's an article about the Montecchi brothers, which did a handful of Batman stories for Mondadori (they signed "Montague" to fool readers in believing the stories were orignal US ones): https://www.giornalepop.it/fratelli-montecchi/ I attach a page from a Montecchi brothers story:

@archivist So, apologies for not getting back earlier. Asif (mustermark) noticed me about this but for some reason my Internet browser did not allow me to access the forums. The technical problem now seems solved. To cut a long story short: as far as the early decades are concerned (1930s and 1940s) each country has a rich and varied story on how DC Comics superheroes were initially presented and adapted (or even "recreated"), and this is often intertwined with relevant and fascinating historical events of a given time. As we get to the 1960s and past them — I speak for Italy alone — I am aware of original stories produced for the Batman (Mondadori) title in the 1960s but I have no direct knowledge of Superman ones. I believe one of the best persons to ask, as I basically remain very ignorant about DC history, is Marcello Vaccari. I do not have a direct contact of him, but if you use Facebook I can point you to his profile.

Since the 1960s decline of syndicated strips, and consequently Disney comics, Italy has officially become the biggest and most acknowledged worldwide provider of original Disney comics stories. This has been already happening for at least a decade, but after Walt Disney death the comics production was further neglected in USA, and this of course mutually reinforced the decline of the characters popularity among younger generations of readers. Italian artists (together with nordic or Dutch ones) in particular were also working for the Disney studios for stories to be published all across the world *except* in USA. Gladstone daringly started a slowly "recover" of comics tradition (and twice) in in homeland, where Disney comics originated, but we see how it went. I don't know which approach Boom studios took, IDW was interesting but in my opinion it still did not strike the adequate balance to succeed in making them once again known to the wider public. The sporadical attempts in US publishing to try and "re-instate" a comics tradition were varied and always ended up being sort of "niche", while in Italy, nordic countries, Argentina, most of Europe, comics (along with the classic animated movies) have always been *the* staple of Walt Disney Productions. Keep in mind that when the Italian production started, as early as the late 1930s ("Donald Duck and the mystery of Mars, the earliest Disney story entirely produced in Italy, albeit a bit weird, is from 1937), the classic syndicated production from USA was still in full bloom. But by the 1960s Italy had become the official largest provider of new stories of high quality for countries all over the world. Ironically, except USA, until Gladstone tried to change this starting in 1986.

Thank you. Tracking this, as we'll be able to have more perspective, also from Overstreet criteria and maybe other countries?

My comment was from 10 years ago, however! LOL!

An interesting topic that I have found now. Is there a consensus about on how CGC grades a full spine split and a half spine split, then? And Overstreet criteria how did/do judge this?

Very nice! Deal done!

Hi! I'd like to take this one (with shipping to USA) but just wished to know the shipping cost as I will have to add the cumulative shipping to Italy from my friend.