Show us your foreign Spider-man comics!

[spidercrazy]

This will probably be just me talking... I hope some of you find it interesting enough to reply...

 

I recently acquired this one from Spain. It was published in Portugal in 1983 by Distri Editora. It is the only comic in any country I know of that has used the rejected Steve Ditko cover to Amazing Fantasy #15.

 

 

The first publisher to distribute Spider-man comics in Portugal was APR (Agencia Portuguesa de Revistas) who started publishing 'Aventuras do Homem-Aranha' in 1978. I do not yet have any of those issues in my collection. It is unknown how many issues were published, the highest issue number I've found is #42. APR also published several one-shots.

 

If enough interest, I will continue to post covers (only from my own collection) and information about other countries.

[Scott Summers]

[spidercrazy]

Um... well... I meant, foreign to the United States.

[Mr. Spider-Woman]

I have a Norwegian Spider-Man comic:

 

 

A traveling family member purchased it for me. All I know is that it is from 2000 (and I only know that because of the date on the cover).

[spidercrazy]

More of the portuguese language: This one, issue #27 from 1971, was published in Brasil by EBAL (Editôra Brasil-América Limitada). Ebal published 70 issues from 1969 to 1974. Spider-man first appeared in Brasil in 1968, in another comic published by Ebal, 'Album Gigante' which featured different heroes in each issue.

 

[spidercrazy]

This SPIDERMAN was published in Spain in 1971 by Vertice. Vertice started publishing Spider-man in Spain in 1969 and continued for many years. The covers were painted by artist Lopez Espi, beautiful paintings that should be enough reason for anyone to collect these issues.

 

[He11blazer]

Wow, that Spanish Spidey has a singularly unusual cover!

 

'Death of Spiderman' eh? What stories does it reprint?

 

 

PS Obligatory link to

 

[spidercrazy]

This comic was published in Argentina in 1968 by Editorial Columba . The number '178' refers to El Tony, the magazine in which this comic was a supplement. This is actually the very first Spider-man comic to be published in Argentina!

 

 

Columba published 40 issues, these are very hard to come by but the effort is well worth it as the print is of amazing quality. The paper is of a thick newspaper-like type and the colors are very strong. Here is a scan of the first page:

 

 

Hellblazer: The spanish comic reprints Amazing Spider-man #57-58 in black and white. As the comic is small pocket size, the pages are edited so that there are only one or two panels per page, many of them re-drawn to fit the size on the page.

[He11blazer]

These are really great, thanks for sharing them.

 

I've just realised, what a great way to practice my Spanish! I must get hold of some Spanish language Spideys!

 

 

[He11blazer]

 

Hellblazer: The spanish comic reprints Amazing Spider-man #57-58 in black and white. As the comic is small pocket size, the pages are edited so that there are only one or two panels per page, many of them re-drawn to fit the size on the page.

 

Ah of course, 'To Kill a Spiderman'.

 

 

[finecomics]

Funny you mentioned Portugal. I was in Lisbon in October for work. Anyway, I found a huge outdoor flea market and found several comics all over the place. Mostly modern stuff. But I did come across a run of Conan's from 70s (magazines).

 

I even found a "shop" close to the flea market, and I wish I would have taken a picture. Imagine a 200 square foot room with shelves on both sides. Stacks of 30-40 books lying flat face up spread across the shelves. Nothing in bags and price stickers of at least 3 euros directly on the back covers.

 

Anyway I gave up after searching 5-6 stacks and not finding anything interesting.

 

At a different spot I found a 10 cent western that was clipped in the corner (remainder copy?) and it was in Spanish. Thought that was strange. Probably should have bought it, but I had spent some euros on German WWII coins and also taken a beating in the casino the night before. Turns me into quite the cheapskate

[tilleycs]

Thanks for posting those covers. I have 2 German FF issues (and hope to be getting some Hulk ones soon), but I don't have any foreign-language Spideys (never collected Spidey).

[Point Five]

I recently acquired this one from Spain. It was published in Portugal in 1983 by Distri Editora. It is the only comic in any country I know of that has used the rejected Steve Ditko cover to Amazing Fantasy #15.

Cool! (thumbs u

[Point Five]

[hesdeadjim]

Here's some German ones:

 

[hesdeadjim]

[hesdeadjim]

[Point Five]

Namor looks right at home in there, doesn't he?

[Fedoraman]

 

Gotta Love Ron Frenz - what country is that from?

[Point Five]

It's Swedish. And kind of funny the way they lopped off the top of the Empire State Building!...I assume it's because the logo overlapped it on the original cover.

 

Here's the Swedish #298, with the first McFarlane art and a funky recolored background. (Apologies to those who saw this the first few hundred times I posted it!)