Show us your foreign Spider-man comics!

[hesdeadjim]

Got any Mane Baronen??? I think that's the Swedish Moon Knight. Norwegian, maybe. Can't remember...

[spidercrazy]

You learn something new every day. I live in Sweden, I've seen that cover I don't know how many times (both the swedish and the US version) and I never noticed they chopped off Empire State Building!

Månebaronen, in Sweden called Månriddaren, is probably norwegian... I have an issue somewhere... oh yes, here it is!

 

 

If there's a 'bc' in the box in the lower left corner, it's a telltale sign the comic is from Norway. No other scandinavian country has the 'bc' code.

[Duffman_Comics]

Time to get back on topic.

 

This is the Australian Strange Tales #5, reprinting Amazing Spider-Man #1.

 

It is an early reprint (first?) as according to the date on a mail away coupon inside front cover it was "dated" August 1963.

 

Black and white interior and for fun I have posted a scan of one page of the second story with the FF. It is interesting because it is "uncorrected" in referring to Mr Peter Parker as Peter Palmer - just as in the original.

 

Any other reprints let this editorial blooper through?

 

Cover by a NewZealand artist (I am pretty sure) name of Bramley. Art is not bad when compared to the other drek that was published here at the time.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the internal page:

 

[juggernaut]

I have shown this before but here are two early German Spiderman.

 

 

[juggernaut]

Here are a few UK Annuals.

 

 

 

 

[spidercrazy]

Duffmancomics,

That Strange Tales issue was the surprise of the day! I had no idea Australia published Spider-man so early. What is the name of the publisher? I had never heard of anything before Newton Comics which started 1975. Still missing Australian issues in my collection. I have comics from about 20 different countries, I know I can never get them all - that would require an endless wallet and an infinity of time - but I concentrate on getting at least one comic from every known country and publisher.

 

 

[Dark Knight]

Found this website with German edition Spidey Comics

 

Spider-Man

[-cryptkeeper-]

some French Strange covers , Spidey talking french , do you believe that

 

Frisano , where is Osborn_france when we need him

[Duffman_Comics]

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That Strange Tales issue was the surprise of the day! I had no idea Australia published Spider-man so early. What is the name of the publisher? I had never heard of anything before Newton Comics which started 1975. Still missing Australian issues in my collection. I have comics from about 20 different countries, I know I can never get them all - that would require an endless wallet and an infinity of time - but I concentrate on getting at least one comic from every known country and publisher.

 

 

Published by Horwitz, distributed by Gordon and Gotch (Aussie collectors will understand).

 

Very short lived title, bizarre makeup/continuity (this month, Fantastic Four #11, then Avengers # I forget, then Spidey 1 - you get the picture).

[spidercrazy]

This one is from Colombia, from publisher Greco (Grupo Editor Colombiano), published in 1978, and incredibly difficult to find. Not just the first issue (which this is) but any comics from this publisher - just trying to find some information about them is nearly impossible. I was lucky enough to win an eBay auction with about 20 of these issues, I still don't know exactly how many were published. The first issue is named 'el Increible Hombre-Araña', then in some later issue (I have yet to see #2 and #3) the name changed to 'el Asombroso Hombre-Araña'.

 

[spidercrazy]

A cornerstone in any swedish collection... Marvelserien #1 from 1967!

 

[spidercrazy]

Norway, on the other hand, knew how to start properly - from the beginning! One year later, 1968, they published their first issue.

 

[spidercrazy]

I actually like their #2 better. I love the use of pastel colours in the background. I have not seen this picture (originally the splash page of Amazing Spider-man #2) used as a cover in any other country. In 1968, how many other splash pages had made it into covers in foreign countries? Maybe this is a first?

 

[gaz973]

Cool thread with some great covers. (thumbs u

[Point Five]

I actually like their #2 better. I love the use of pastel colours in the background. I have not seen this picture (originally the splash page of Amazing Spider-man #2) used as a cover in any other country. In 1968, how many other splash pages had made it into covers in foreign countries? Maybe this is a first?

 

Awesome!

[selegue]

I actually like their #2 better. I love the use of pastel colours in the background. I have not seen this picture (originally the splash page of Amazing Spider-man #2) used as a cover in any other country. In 1968, how many other splash pages had made it into covers in foreign countries? Maybe this is a first?

 

 

What a shame he lost the fashionable yellow boots between #1 and 2.

 

Fun thread! I just ran across some foreign reprints in my boxes last night, but no Spider-Man to contribute.

 

Jack

[mrwoogieman]

Here are a couple of boring UK editions with newsprint covers and B&W interiors. Not nearly as exotic as the ones you've been putting up, however.

 

 

[mrwoogieman]

And here are some others from the UK, this time with glossy covers (4 issues in a row too!)...

 

 

[mrwoogieman]

Now these are probably more what you have in mind; two issues from the former republic of Yugoslavia

 

 

 

Note the awesome mullet wig Hulk is sporting. Main story in that one is also Spider-Man.

 

 

[mrwoogieman]

And, finally, just because I got the Spideys out from the same box, here are Yugoslavian Superman and Batman issues.