The OFFICIAL Foreign Silver Age Thread

[lscomics]

Just arrived yesterday from South Africa. Proof that Steranko is awesome globally.

[vaillant]

This one is awesome, Tim!

[lscomics]

This one is awesome, Tim!

And about as scarce as hens teeth. (thumbs u

[TheAmazing R.J.S.]

You said it !!! Awesome find Tim

[RockMyAmadeus]

Oooohhhh....these are fantastic!

 

Quick request for all foreign guys: if it's possible, could you please list the DATE of publication of each book, if it's not slabbed? That would be awesome. I want to get an idea of how far past initial publication did these run.

[RockMyAmadeus]

Anybody have anything published from countries that no longer exist and/or have changed names?

[solarcadet]

Anybody have anything published from countries that no longer exist and/or have changed names?

 

Amazing Spiderman 129 from former YUGOSLAVIA

 

 

 

[solarcadet]

Oooohhhh....these are fantastic!

 

Quick request for all foreign guys: if it's possible, could you please list the DATE of publication of each book, if it's not slabbed? That would be awesome. I want to get an idea of how far past initial publication did these run.

 

Closest dates that I know between original versus foreign edition is 3 month difference of Superman 76 (1952) and mexican edition Superman 5 Novaro.

 

Also Hombre Arana came out in Sept 1974 after Amazing Spiderman 129 Feb 1974.

 

These are the quickest editions may be more maybe Tim Liam or Matt might know better examples. ...

 

I have offers out throughout all Mexico and South America only one superman 76 edición has ever been found it is one of the rarest foreigns to exist.

[Barbarian]

Got this today, Mexican Novaro, November 1959

 

 

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Quick request for all foreign guys: if it's possible, could you please list the DATE of publication of each book, if it's not slabbed? That would be awesome. I want to get an idea of how far past initial publication did these run.

 

OK, I’ll do things properly and re-start with FF#1.

 

The first italian edition of FF#1 is on an antologic magazine’s supplement (Peanuts cover, but you have the Thing peeking out from the back!)

 

Fantastic Four #1 Italian (first edition)

on Linus Estate - Supplement to Linus #15, June 1966

 

 

This contains the best quality reproduction of this story I have ever seen. All in black and white, but just awesome line art quality (and graphic adaptation in my language):

clickable thumbnails to see the detail…

 

 

 

One of my favorite panels…

 

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Fantastic Four #1 (Italian, first edition, June 1966)

 

Trivia: since the story was published on this magazine, whose publisher was of a left-wing cultural area, all the references to cold-war themes (and the soviets beating the west to the space run) are removed.

[revat]

Adventure COmics #327 Mexico Style, wasnt' looking for it, but my LCS for some reason had it. First Appearance of Lone-Wolf from the LOS.

 

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Fantastic Four #1 Italian (second edition)

on Devil #4 - June 18, 1970

 

First comic book edition; published as a backup feature of the italian Daredevil (Silver Surfer was the regular backup feature).

 

 

Story starts at page 23. The graphic adaptation differs from the first edition (which was more faithful to the original):

 

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Fantastic Four #1 Italian (third edition)

Fantastici Quattro #1 - April 6, 1971

 

After the testing ground on the pages of the italian Daredevil, the FF get their own italian title the following year:

 

 

The issue originally came with a poster, and stickers grafted to the centerfold (those pictures are not from my copy):

 

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Fantastic Four #1 Italian (fourth edition)

Fantastici Quattro Gigante #1 - March 1978

 

Given the success of the Marvel titles, the publisher decided to start a series of reprint titles in beautiful magazine format, centered around single characters/titles and reprinting all the stories in chronological order. Fantastici Quattro Gigante hits the newstands in March 1978 alternating the stories from the Fantastic Four and Strange Tales, in the same order they originally appeared in the states.

This is the series where I first read the early FFs, and although I am very affectioned to it I no longer have copies. These are found pictures:

 

 

Issue 1 came with beautiful stickers:

 

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That very same year, a beautiful bound volume in full color collecting selected classic Lee/Kirby stories came out as a treat to italian kids: I am pretty sure got it around Christmas of 1978.

 

I was totally stoked – I did not have the occasion to see the reprint Fantastici Quattro Gigante yet, and it was the first time I had read earlier stories like FF #30, #36 and Annual #6…

 

I still have my OO copy, but not scanned – here’s an image found on the web:

 

 

 

Inside pages (man, how much I loved that double splash! ):

 

 

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As far as I know, the following edition in comic book format (not counting hardbound volumes reprints like the italian Masterworks) is this one.

This is the first time the original cover is used, but… ugly colors (I don’t have this one).

 

Fantastic Four #1 Italian (fifth edition)

Fantastici Quattro Classic #1 - August 1996

 

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Fantastic Four #1 Italian (sixth edition)

Fantastic Four #1 (Corriere della Sera) - 2007

 

And finally FF#1 had a proper italian edition like it deserved, with the original cover, but they left the logo title in english… it would have been great if they used the italian logo (all logos were neatly drawn. BTW).

This came out with the italian newspaper "Il Corriere della Sera".

 

 

The interiors, however, were adapted in a pretty nice way, recovering the original splash page lettering following the style of the english one.

The lettering is typeset (not done by hand) but quite nice…

 

[Barbarian]

Here´s my 1969 Cap 100 Brazilian Ebal

 

[lscomics]

I hate you so much.