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I purchased this recently because I was intrigued by the war-themed cover:

The only other pulp magazine I have is this one posted by Steve:

Mine does not have white pages, in fact I think it’s slightly brittle but I had to have an original Weird Tales with a Brundage illustration (I have read most of the Weird Tales stories in italian, translated by the excellent Gianni Pilo in a collection of books).

Don't get me wrong I love the original cover.... I just feel like this composition, the way they reworked it is very beautiful. Like you said great color harmony just enough art and very little in the way of text to clutter it up! (thumbs u I really think the Corno books were done very well! The font for the title is pleasing as well....

It’s not a typeface. Up to the 1970s they were 100% hand lettered (both the headlines and the texts lettering). In the 1970s they started to throw in some typeset composition, because it was the fad of the day (late 1960s-early 1970s: it is cool to use typography), then they reverted to 100% handlettering in the 1980s, and then they got really low profile (last issues of "il Settimanale dell’Uomo Ragno" and the second series are often translated terribly) and then went bankrupt…

We had to wait until 1985, when a few things were published by Labor Comics (very rare), including some Epic stuff and the graphic novel "God loves man kills", and then in 1987 Star Comics restarted. Star Comics eventually ended up becoming Marvel Italia first, and then Panini Comics, up to now.

What a beaut book! I have always liked Scott Free... Mister Miracle was my favorite of the fourth world stuff that I have read... Like the simple contrasty cover too! Very cool book! (thumbs u

Actually, I got this more or less at the same time I bought the Mr. Miracles, and I prefer the original cover. Although I agree that in the early 1970s they tended to make the covers a little too crowded with lettering blurbs et al.

What I liked about Corno is that, since they recolored most books, they usually had a good designer when it came to choose colors.

Here there is a good color harmony between Mr. Miracle's cape and the mag logo.

Nice! I would love to see the Mister Miracle issue..... that Shade is pretty nice grade by the way! (thumbs u

Here you are:

Issue 15, the final one, after which the publication was canceled.

They are nice in grade since I purchased the full run, but at the time I did not read them, just the New Gods and Jimmy Olsen on Kamandi. Then I bought the full runs of Mr. Miracle and the Forever People in original edition in the early 1990s and… man, Kirby at his most occult. One may object the Fourth World is a not-entirely accomplished project, but here Jack put all his effort on the characters, not the storyline. No one has written the characters like Kirby (Starlin did an acceptable job in the Cosmic Odyssey mini-series, but nothing to do with the true epic of the original).

Did they publish the Fantastic Four in greece in year 1990?

Maybe it‘s a reprint?

I told myself, I told myself, I told myself... that I'm not going to get into higher grade pre-hero Marvels.

 

And then this comes along yesterday; it's my first pre-hero Marvel slab:

 

Now you just have to crack it out of the case, Steve.

(thumbs u

Blurb reads "Battle between monsters".

Shade the Changing Man, italian edition (my copy).

Series appeared on an unusual anthologic publication, "Il Super Eroe", at a time when Editoriale Corno was experimenting with formats and content:

"Il Super Eroe" came out side by side with "Gli Eterni" (The Eternals), also an anthology. Series featured a lot of science-fiction flavored superhero stories, specifically "Il Super Eroe" published Shade, The Challengers of the Unknown (I guess from the 1970s reprints), Isis, Star-Hunters and two of Jack Kirby's Fourth World's series: Forever People and Mr. Miracle (of which only the first episode appeared, after the title was canceled).

The other two, New Gods and Jimmy Olsen, were presented on the pages of the italian edition of Kamandi.

 

one of my favorite covers of spidey

I recall those. When I was a child, and just started reading Marvels in italian, I used to see them at the sea (newsstands bought import issues for german tourists).

I believed they were the originals, in English, and I gave nightmares to my father until I convinced him to buy me some, with the excuse that "I needed to learn english".

What a disappointment when the newsstand owner told us they were in german. I tried to insist, pretending I would be motivated to learn german too, but to no avail…

Hitler’s opponent looks like Doctor Strange dressed up in a traditional bavarian costume.

This italian "landscape size" comic book (from 1947) is the first collected edition o f the story "Pippo e il Dittatore" (Pippo and the Dictator), which originally appeared on the rare italian magazine "Intervallo" in 1945:

The story is part of a trilogy drawn between 1945 and 1947 by Benito Jacovitti, one of the most important italian cartoonists.

Jacovitti started his career in 1940 on the pages of "Il Vittorioso", an important italian "journal sized" comics publication by catholic-inspired publisher A.V.E., when he was barely 16 years old. In his youth was somewhat agreeable towards the fascist regime (his first story – a satire on the British army – actually shows Pippo and his friends rescued by a german nazi boat!), but then, later on, enrolled in the army was in Germany and risked to be forcedly enrolled in the SS and was able to escape thanks to the intervention of a bishop.

His style started to get mature around 1945 and afterwards he really produced masterworks of the comic art. "Pippo e il Dittatore" works more or less like Charlie Chaplin's famous movie, and it’s very enjoyable, not the average Hitler parody, especially considered it’s from an italian perspective.

Cover dated Jan 1942, but apparently on newstand on Oct 29th ( date stamps). Since there was no Daring Mystery #9 and the good Capt didn't make the cut for Comedy #9, we'll have to wait till 3050 to see how this turns out!

The Blue Diamond! The Thing time-travel saga with the Invaders, where most of those golden age charaters were re-introduced, has been one of my first Marvel readings, when I was about 10. I recall Thin Man joking about the fact he was "old".

What a beautiful cover, and I’m sure the issue is great, thank you for posting, and for all the great information.

First appearance of Hilter (plus, Stalin and Mussolini) in a comic book appears to be Sun Fun Komiks from 1939. First Hitler story: Daring Mystery #6 (Sept 1940)?

Do you know if these has been scanned from someone? I’d love to have high-resolution scans of the stories! Of course, the Daring Mystery is not public domain, but I am seeking them for private use.

@comickjack: You are adding unnecessary "img" (probably double) tags to your image posts.

Thanks, 'chip.

Daring Comics?

From which issue? Also, it seems a "first episode" or am I wrong?

From what I get it’s set in the future, but the publishing date?

Let's keep alive this great thread, please…

I wish I could read Italian as he looks like quite an interesting storyteller.

+1 What little Italian I can understand only makes it look more interesting.

@40YrsCollctngCmcs, tb: Thanks, I am not delighted to see many appreciate these stories because they are italian, but mostly because they are great stories. Early (and late) italian Disney artists managed to push the pedal of surreal atmospheres, the unfamiliar and the unexpected, while mantaining at the same time the highest grade of respect for the characters and for the Disney vision (most of the early writers included feature film characters in Mickey and Donald stories).

It seems the "White Cobra" hasn’t been translated in english so far.

WDC&S #666?

I thought about it the very second I saw it was published.

But I think it‘s unintentional.

The original cover image from Topolino #7 (1949):

@BangZoom: Many, many thanks for posting pages of the WDC&S issue. I need to pick up and buy all those I still miss which presented italian stories.

I love how they colored the Donald sequence «We’ll help Donald better self beat his temper»… just great! (thumbs u

I’m sure you’ll enjoy it, although it’s an unusual story.

Another classic I can’t ever recommend strongly enough is "Mickey Mouse and the Delta Dimension" (just seen they published it in english – and with a cover!):

http://coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=us/MMAG+11#b

It also features the return of Doctor Einmug.

I have just noticed they removed the revolver on the splash page in the 2006 US edition. This is really nonsense, as the story represent quintessentially the time in which was published, with an atmosphere between classic science fiction and crime which wouldn’t make US readers regret the early Fantastic Four stories or hard-boiled literature.

Plus, one of the best characters created by Romano Scarpa makes his very first appearance: Atomino Bip-Bip. A character that, besides epitomizing the so-called "atomic age" proved to be so popular – rivaling with Eeega Beeva or Goofy – that they eventually decided to tone down and rarefy his apperances.

I was wondering that maybe I should open another thread about italian stories available to english readers, as this was one of the threads devoted to showing the collectibles. I don’t want to annoy those uninterested…

@Et-Es-Go: The Chesler recreations by Ryan are great, but the Marvel Comics #1 really "works" (concerning my previous comments).

It has an atmosphere which has always reminded me of Pulp magazine covers, and while the Cheslers are great but as I said because of their style stray a little from the original mood, in the Human Torch cover the image potential is multiplied. Great job!

Hi RH, great to cross you there!

I’m glad of having been of help, and I guess you already asked Mr. Bedrock.

To complete the Chesler run for the DCM, we may try to post a request in the WTB section as well. Anyway, it’s you in the US, me on the other side of the ocean… :-(

Thanks BZ. (thumbs u Be very careful with the translation, 'though.

It translates "Cinico Angelici" (an artist and musician which passed on his drawing passion to Bioletto) as "Cynic Angelic", as it was a common name…

Translation is not entirely bad, anyway, gives a good idea.

I need to pick up all these US editions of those classics, most of them I wasn’t aware of, as I stopped buying Disney comic books in the early 1990s, as the publishing chores passed to Disney, then to Gladstone's second tenure.

The Scoop #3 cover is super-cool. In some ways, more original than the #2.

What’s cool about the #2 is that the guy is fighting a Shark, underwater, in an evening dress.

@Alanna: The copy you bought on eBay is astonishingly nice in grade. Wow.

Thanks for posting, everyone (although I already saw most covers, it‘s cool to know someone has the books!).

Are there matching stories to these great covers therein? (I understand sometimes there aren't).

Also worth checking is Mickey’s Inferno (I just see it’s been published in english, with slight editing, on Walt Disney Comics & Stories #666):

http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++++7-AP

The story is a weird "back to school" adaptation of Dante’s Inferno, where Disney characters (Mickey is Dante, Goofy is Virgil) play the role of various protagonists of the poem.

In this panel, the Big Bad Wolf is tormented by chickens which he used to eat, which in return are eating his flesh out:

@Point Five: I guess it’s mostly offensive depending on how you look at its supposed "humour". It has quite a weirdness. Is that Walt Kelly drawing?

I have recently completed a 1949 run of the "Topolino giornale" (the journal sized publicaton which preceeded the renowned pocket-book leading Disney publication here in Italy) where there is one of the first, most weird, tales by writer Guido Martina. It mixes Mickey & Goofy, Peg-leg-Pete (partner of a brand new villain), horror, tortures, and with a taste for the surreal which would have later become the hallmark of Martina as a writer, even in his more mature, Disney-correct stories.

Martina ranks among my favorite Disney comics artists, after Gottfredson and Barks.

Here’s an image of the first page of the story, from 1948:

And here an article (unfortunately in italian only) on Angelo Bioletto, the artist:

http://www.papersera.net/inducks/creatori_ita/ABi.php

Big Shot #32 is really cool.

I also love many covers featuring the Face.

Drawn by George Tuska, this “Lady Satan” cover first appeared as the splash for the “Lady Satan” story in Dynamic Comics 2. Yes the story from #2 is reprinted within...

@jb: Many thanks!

Great Tuska work love the Weird comics 1 Thanks for posting your art!

Agreed! (thumbs u

I have an impression the man must have been a very humble and great guy.

I was just recollecting memories and I think I read my first Tuska story in 1978, as I started reading Marvels in italian: an Iron Man story featuring "Ultimo".

I was actually very surprised to discover Tuska’s golden age work, as we have had almost no golden age material published here in Italy.

I really like the Lady Satan feature, and I always liked his work at Marvel in the 1960s and 1970s.

People like him and Don Heck were always underrated by criticism, while they were professionals with a great deal of integrity. (thumbs u

Is anyone able to answer my Lady Satan reprint question?