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Great back covers on them, specially the last one

Please grade another low grade Brazilian comics:

Cross posting from the foreign thread: Reading it currently. Lots fairly enjoyable stories from a myriad of different characters (100 pages).

Really poor condition on this one:

On Mexico, they published the AC1 Superman story on several editions of "Paquito", one page at each edition, on the back cover. I read a comment that it wasn't licensed. Anyway, on Heritage there is one of the editions: https://comics.ha.com/itm/miscellaneous//p/40210-14011.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515 I really enjoy this one.

By the way Heritage, already started to post the books for their first foreign comic books: https://comics.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?No=0&N=52+792+4294940843 There many great books posted, but two definitely stand out for me, after a rapidly overlook of what is available. One is the Paquito with an Action Comics 1 page that someone opened a thread about. The other is this one: It's difficult to convoy its importance and rarity to foreign people. Up to that point in time, there were a couple of "modern comic books" publications outside the US, but overall, they were secondary to publications compared to the tabloid format, that were much bigger, dedicated only a few pages to each story, most content probably being daily strips and were published up to 3 times a week. In Brazil in 1939, the publisher "O Globo" started a new series called "Gibi". It was a standard publication on the tabloid format. However when it reached n°100 (also know as Gibi Mensal 1) , in January of 1940, they decided to try something different. They decided to adapt the US comic book format. They would start to try out the format publishing one edition per month. That's why every edition in the new format would have "Mensal" (monthly) on the title, even though the series name is only Gibi (yes the label title is incorrect, besides too incomplete for my taste). Images bellow of Gibi n°116 (also know as Gibi Mensal n°2) and the slight older Gibi n°2 depict the difference. The gibi series would lead other Brazilian publishers to try other series in this format like the Guri n°1: or the Lobinh vol 2, n°1 However it was when the gibi series started to try the new format with characters of a different publisher that most success came. Perhaps people of this forum heard about them. First with him: and specially with him: The success that these two, especially Torch, would bring was fundamental to convince the publisher O Globo that it was time to start a regular Gibi Mensal series (note the 'A' letter to the right of '1' to distinguish it from the Gibi 100/Mensal 1) and possibly to release its sister publication, the "Globo Juvenil Mensal": So what the twelve first Gibi Mensal were the biggest step to popularize the modern comic book format in Brazil and it was possible the first case grand of success of it outside the US.

My first Italian super-hero:

Some amazing rare stuff in the few pages. Cross posting from the ducks thread a few weeks ago, probably one of the most successful new comic series in the world of the 70's, it would became the top selling book from the publisher and probably in the country, besides the series would have Colombian, Portuguese and Spanish editions. Number 1: Here side by side with my old copy that I had since 96: The fans favorite n°6, the first that wouldn't have a reprint: Another nice early issue, n°22 Some scaaaaaaarce Argentinean stuff: More will come in the next days :P

Great colors indeed. The one above might not be scarce but still is interesting, nonetheless. It is not yet charted on grand comics database. What is its content? To add something new, one of my collection: As can be seen, a double covers publication. From the few other copies I saw so far, this one is the exception, not the rule

Please pgm this n°1 issue of this fan favorite series. As can be seen from the last photo not only collectors like this one:

Please grade this Brazilian Disney fans favorite issue:

I didn't knew about this series. Six issues from 1959. Very nice.

This is astounding. It's from which country?

Some creases visible, especially in photos n°3 & 4:

More guesses are welcomed!

Please pgm this New Mutans 98 copy:

New copy arriving. Still not sure which one I will keep. Disney Especial was one the most important Disney new titles released in the 70's (possible the most successful decade for Disney comics), perhaps the most important. The fan favorite n°6. One of my favorites, especially with the nice white background: Inspired on Walt Disney Comics Digest, but far more well succeeded.

Some nice Disney/Ducks stuff that I acquired in the last months (some older than that)

Congrats. One of the earliest editions that I saw until today. Imo, the El Pato Donald series is THE disney series to collect, due to the mix of rarity, historical importance and cool covers & stories.

Congrats on the full set. Congrats on the full set. Can anyone give me an explanation of the 10c copies without stamp on it? I mean, the guy on the newsstand had a price's table to know the price to be charged? And the reasons behind not having the price stamped or printed by Marvel still in the US?

May not be necessary to divert MUCH resources to deal with the label issue. As far as I know, Cbcs only had one expert that did their label stuff. About the Census stuff, they probably could implement a system that search and compares all fields of a certain comic book to a certain search string. So if anyone types "Amazing Spider-Man" and enters 1 in number field, it will look for a mention of ASM n°1 in all sub fields, find them, and then lists them.

Comparison time. US Superboy 160 with its Brazilian counterpart, the deluxe Superboy em Cores n°4 (Superboy in colors), one of my favorite Superboy stories. Some random comments: About the cover. Different color schemes used. The obvious different is the darker green background, but if one pay attention, there is also differences in the globe, that in the US version has different colors and more of them, plus more detail in the lines on it. They did a very simplified translation of Superboy's dialog, surprisingly with printed letters (as this was not the case in the interior pages). The US cover is a standard glossy cover of average thickness. The Brazilian Ebal uses a non glossy cover, of a standard Ebal edition (which is thicker than US standard). In this deluxe edition, there is also a plastic layer over both covers, which in Brazil's hot whether, used to do a lot of different to protect comics from staining, especially since most editions where preserved in fairly open environments, not in a cabinet or something like that. Brazil also has a higher % of people who lives next to Ocean than the US, so even greater chances of humidity stains to show up. About the inner pages, there is a lot difference, not only between both editions. but also internal differences in the US one. There is a big difference in printing quality in some US pages. Some were clearly printing on far lower quality standard than the others. If you compare the one were Superboy shows up with the policeman, it is far worst than the US were Cleopatra appears. Not sure if it will be possible to detect it in these photos, even though I used the highest quality possible. It just appears far more blurred than the other two. A decent amount of pages are like that. Between the US and Brazilian, the printing quality of the lines, when compared with the better pages of the US version, is about the same. However, there are visibly differences in the colors, although I think the photos didn't really do a good job in showing of them. The colors are usually stronger and more vivid in the BR version, especially the yellow. The difference is smaller when comparing the US pages of higher printing quality. The BR edition has a "pop art" fell to it due to the colors. Part of the color difference might be related to the paper used. While the US used a standard newsprint paper, the BR one used a high quality paper, that absorbed the ink in a quite different manner. During the first two or three years of these deluxe editions, the inner pages were super thick, about as thick as the covers themselves. Next to some European deluxe albums, the thickest I have seen so far for a comic book. Finally, the lettering. Both used handwritten letters, which is the most normal in US comics, but not in Brazil, where it depended on the publisher. Ebal used it in its early days, but its biggest competitor, RGE, hired many of its letterers, so they started to use typed ones instead. The letters used are quite large in the BR one, which forced the translator to being economic in some translations, skipping some redundant dialogs and using short words/expressions. Plus some idiomatic expressions received non literal translation, as a few other dialogs. Next comparison: US Superman 140 and its Brazilian counterpart.

Actually, not that much, as there is issue #0. No idea why they didn't the JM83 story in n°0.

Up. Any guess will be appreciated.

Please PGM this one too, if not too much effort.