Comic book collecting with a foreign variant focus 20 20

[Roosterbread]

Excellent article, maybe someone here can help me with this:

     I recently acquired this book, published by the EU in 2012.

According to this article, BIZARRE EU FUNDED COMIC BOOK PREDICTED PANDEMIC, WITH GLOBALISTS AS SAVIOURS | The Crazz Files  

the book was not intended for mass consumption, so only a few hundred copies were printed. Is there any way I can find out the exact number of copies printed? Any other observations about this book are welcome and appreciated.

 

     Great article on the foreign editions, I have a few Spanish ASM I've been holding on to.

 

     

[rakehell]

Managed to grab these for not very much - 

Been after decent copies for ages. Now all I need is The Mummy..

[Superga]

Hey everyone

 

Just wanted to add some books I found whilst digging in some old boxes of mine. 

They are German variants to Batman Beyond 1. 

I know about the purple cover (far left) but the others I don't have a lot of knowledge on excepts for variant being on the cover (far right). Would love to know more if anyone knows..are they all from the same period/is the variant rarer than the regular?

 

FYI I am based in the Uk. 

Thanks 

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 9/30/2021 at 11:26 AM, Superga said:

Hey everyone

 

Just wanted to add some books I found whilst digging in some old boxes of mine. 

They are German variants to Batman Beyond 1. 

I know about the purple cover (far left) but the others I don't have a lot of knowledge on excepts for variant being on the cover (far right). Would love to know more if anyone knows..are they all from the same period/is the variant rarer than the regular?

 

FYI I am based in the Uk. 

Thanks 

@Wolverinex

[WolverineX]

On 9/30/2021 at 12:56 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

@Wolverinex

Thanks for the tag, I know all the variants for Batman Beyond 1 USA addition. I don't really know much about the foreign variants, unfortunately.

[Foxtrot70]

On 9/5/2021 at 9:38 AM, Frisco Larson said:

 some awesome Mexican Prensa books.   I haven't looked at this thread in while and was surprised to see these.  Wow,  after few pages of seeing "15" grease mark, I was thinking these high grade are ghost books, must be something special, then got to page w CGC pedigree slab. Ahh ha! LOL   anyway congrats you hit lottery.  There are only 2 collections I know if that had high grade Mexican.   What we call Palacio , massive collection originating from Mexico City,  The HNG (Hector Nava Garcia) which was reference collection from artist workshop (complete runs of everything Novaro/Presna; avg 6.0 but some are NM others below 4.)    Occasionally we run across warehouse copies from USA dealers but not often, and usually only small # of books.   

[Frisco Larson]

On 10/3/2021 at 6:41 PM, Foxtrot70 said:

 some awesome Mexican Prensa books.   I haven't looked at this thread in while and was surprised to see these.  Wow,  after few pages of seeing "15" grease mark, I was thinking these high grade are ghost books, must be something special, then got to page w CGC pedigree slab. Ahh ha! LOL   anyway congrats you hit lottery.  There are only 2 collections I know if that had high grade Mexican.   What we call Palacio , massive collection originating from Mexico City,  The HNG (Hector Nava Garcia) which was reference collection from artist workshop (complete runs of everything Novaro/Presna; avg 6.0 but some are NM others below 4.)    Occasionally we run across warehouse copies from USA dealers but not often, and usually only small # of books.   

Thank you for the kind words! I'm really enjoying collecting the La Prensa comics, when I find them that is! They are quite difficult to find in high grade and I have many that aren't. 

[gadzukes]

Got this in the mail today.  From the 1940s.  It's a hardbound collection of Pif Paf comics.

Inside I found a Superman 18 story, and a Detective 62 story.

Plus Tracy, Captain Marvel, Shadow, Phantom, etc...

[Kromak]

Some great stuff in the last pages. I will post some foreign (well for you) that I got this year.

This first one, that I already posted in the golden age section, is nothing more nothing less than the 1949 Almanaque (usually a "deluxe" annual edition) for both the Superman title and "O Herói" title. O Herói was publishing things like  Sheena and would bring the first classic comics stories. This time I added more photos of the inner pages.

 

This second one is quite important historically. Is a "Good Bye" comic book. This and other three were the last representatives of the classic style of comic book publication on Brazil. Unlike US publications, dedicated  to a single or perhaps a few characters of a single publisher, on Brazil there was basically five publications from mid 30's and on that basically published everything, mixing National, Timely, Western, MLJ, etc.. characters into a single title.

One can say that the beginning of the end of this format was when the tabloid format started to be replaced by the modern comic book format. This started in 1939/1940 and continued slowly to gain adoption through the 40's. Although these Modern comic book also published everything mixed up, it would lead to successors that would not follow this style.  In 1947, National started to do a worldwide effort to give Superman a title of his own in many countries. Australia was the first and Brazil followed them in December of that year. This would be the first of many characters that would acquire their own titles through end 40's and the 50's. And slowly with that, the popularity of the classic "mixed up" publications would slowly vanishing. First the tabloid format titles ended between late 40's and early 50's. Then the comic books of that category would becoming less and less important. One (O Lobinho) already perished in the first half of the 50's

 

Then, early 60's most of these titles would come to an end. "O Guri" ended in 1962 and next year, would be the time of "Gibi Mensal" and "Globo Juvenil Mensal". However, there would a last farewell. The four last publications of this style would be Almanaque(s). This one, the only "Super" Almanaque do Gibi is one of the most difficult to obtain. I think I only ever saw two copies available. The cover represents it pretty well, mixing up characters from several publishers, some that were mainly newspaper characters.

In many ways, a last goodbye from an  amateur era of comic book publishing, unthinkable in modern times and in the US, from were most stories were originated . From the way I see it, a beautiful farewell to days that marked the end of golden age in Brazil

 

 

If the above images depicts the end of an era, the next ones represents the beginning of another one. Brazil's first comic book publication was "O Tico Tico" * (apparently there was a short XIX publication, but no one was able to find copies of it yet). It had great printing quality for that time. mixing up European, US and Brazilian stuff.

 

Being published weekly, it quickly reached a very high number of published editions. I wonder if it was the first ever comic book publication to reach number 1000? Anyway, in 1907, its publisher, "O Malho" had the idea of creating an "Almanaque D'o Tico-Tico", the first ever Brazilian comic book Almanaque, one of the first ever annual comic book publications. The idea of it was to be an annual deluxe publication, released at the end of the year, to work as a Christmas present to children. During more than half century, O Malho would keep that tradition.

Another interesting curiosity is that Tico Tico n° 1277 of 1930, was likely the first ever appearance of Mickey outside newspapers!

[Ryan.]

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

On 12/23/2021 at 5:59 AM, Ryan. said:

[Kromak]

In my last post I said there was four comic books that could be considered the Golden's age end on Brazil (actually there are five, I forgot the one that I deem as the less exciting one). Today, another of these arrived. It has, a very, very special meeting between two characters that should not be meeting!

P.S:Note the Brazilian Code of Ethics logo in the upper right corner.

 

[aokartman]

I just paired these two books up for Christmas.  Frank Miller cover.  David

[Kromak]

A few Mexican stuff:

Mexicans are likely the third easiest  foreign to find here, after US and Portuguese material

 

I don't even remember if I posted this earlier this year, but here it goes:

If you pay attention to the covers, will notice that these first three Argentinean copies were actually distributed in Uruguay . Last one is Chilean  .

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

Added this one to my collection today.

[Beyonder123]

I just got this in. I generally don't post my foreigns because I don't want more competition than there already is. But I just had to post this one.

[Randall Dowling]

I just wanted to say thanks to all that have posted their finds in this thread.  For many years, I viewed foreign comics as just a weird phenomenon.  But around 10-15 years ago, I started getting more interested in European comics after a trip to Paris and one of the many cool comic book stores there.  Most of what I have are variants of Warren magazines (mostly Vampirella) from France, Finland, Spain, UK and Australia.

One of these days, I'll find the time to take photos and post them.  In the meantime, thanks to all for sharing these truly rare pieces of ephemera!!  

[gadzukes]

On 12/23/2021 at 6:59 AM, Ryan. said:

Is that a giant wet spot?

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/12/2022 at 8:29 PM, gadzukes said:

Is that a giant wet spot?

Come again?

[Beyonder123]

On 1/12/2022 at 12:30 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Come again?

You're right. Thats probably what it is.