The OFFICIAL Foreign Golden Age Thread

[Theagenes]

[Theagenes]

[porcupine48]

Those Conans are fantastic,and very scarce I imagine.is that years of collecting or did you score them all at once as a collection?

[vaillant]

Ugly cover, but here’s the third appearance of Superman in Italy, from september 1939.

 

Two previous albums published the initial newspaper strips by Siegel and Schuster, but with this issue, possibly due to a shortage or import problems of the material, Vincenzo and Zenobio Baggioli, which were responsible for the adaptation of the material, started to write and draw original stories.

 

Superman is named Ciclone ("Hurricane") and the costume continues to change color, becoming green in this and in the following few albums.

 

In 1940 an additional sequence of Siegel and Schuster strips will be published on the journal l’Audace, and then we’ll have to wait after the war (around 1946-47) to see additional Superman material by Edizioni Mondiali (which also published it in France):

 

 

Back cover:

 

 

Here’s an article by Federico Falcolini from the Metropolis website, with some not-so-accurate information (also as related to the fascist regime policy towards american comics), but useful to have an idea:

http://www.metropoliscomics.com/load_feature.php?article_id=223&type=feature&action=view

[Theagenes]

Those Conans are fantastic,and very scarce I imagine.is that years of collecting or did you score them all at once as a collection?

 

It was kind of both. I had been looking for some for years and that was known among REH collectors. But these came from two collections in which the owners came to me to sell. They are incredibly scarce -- some of these weren't even known to exist until a couple of years ago.

 

 

 

[vaillant]

They are really beautiful, and fascinating. Strictly speaking, however, as I just pointed out, these are foreign comics in their own right, not foreign editions.

 

The Superman I posted is an "hybrid", as the series started with the original US strips, then the authors went on to produce stories on their own, and eventually other original newspaper strips were published during 1940.

 

The Guri is awesome, I’d love to find one… at least I would have a GA Cap, although in a foreign edition…

[Chespirito]

Those Conans are fantastic,and very scarce I imagine.is that years of collecting or did you score them all at once as a collection?

 

It was kind of both. I had been looking for some for years and that was known among REH collectors. But these came from two collections in which the owners came to me to sell. They are incredibly scarce -- some of these weren't even known to exist until a couple of years ago.

 

 

 

 

Infreakincredible!!!

[Chespirito]

[rjpb]

 

 

Nice!

[rjpb]

Ugly cover, but here’s the third appearance of Superman in Italy, from september 1939.

 

Two previous albums published the initial newspaper strips by Siegel and Schuster, but with this issue, possibly due to a shortage or import problems of the material, Vincenzo and Zenobio Baggioli, which were responsible for the adaptation of the material, started to write and draw original stories.

 

Superman is named Ciclone ("Hurricane") and the costume continues to change color, becoming green in this and in the following few albums.

 

In 1940 an additional sequence of Siegel and Schuster strips will be published on the journal l’Audace, and then we’ll have to wait after the war (around 1946-47) to see additional Superman material by Edizioni Mondiali (which also published it in France):

 

 

Nothing ugly about that. Very cool.

[Point Five]

 

 

Nice!

That is super cool. Do these Mexican versions exist for the whole run of Frazetta FF covers?

 

 

[Barbarian]

Ok, first off, I no longer own this book, but I sold it to someone I know well enough to think he wouldn't mind me sharing the pics I took of it when it WAS my book. Portuguese book with mostly Timely contents. I originally posted this in the "other" foreign comics thread and had help from boardies identifying the contents. Refer back to that thread if you are curious (thumbs u

 

 

This book is from Brazil. It is part of a series called Guri.

 

They were a bi-monthly publication that spawned for 2 series and 22 years.

 

The first series was published from 1940-1953 with a total of 354 issues. What you have here is issue # 135.

 

The second series was published with the same name, by another editor from 1954-1962 with a total of 317 issues.

 

Most of these don´t even have available scans or information on contents, but they would make any Golden Age collector very happy

 

[Barbarian]

Some GA Conan comics from Mexico.

 

 

Holy . You really can´t find this stuff in Comic General.

 

Just wow.

 

[Theagenes]

 

Awesome!

[Theagenes]

Some GA Conan comics from Mexico.

 

 

Holy . You really can´t find this stuff in Comic General.

 

Just wow.

 

 

You mean stuff like a blond Conan fighting a Lovecraftian monster in a authorized Mexican bootleg comic from 1952?

 

Yeah, no, you won't find that in Comics General.

 

[porcupine48]

I really love it!!

[vaillant]

I really love it!!

 

You missed my italian Superman (also in the original foreign thread).

[Bronty]

Btw, I think we should rename this thread the Non-US GA comic thread?

 

After all who is to say that the Americans aren't the "foreigners" from our POV ?

 

 

[solarcadet]

 

 

hector

 

that is slam along ding dong jam!!!!! Love it bro!!!!!!

 

If you ever find issue #50 please let me know. If you do find it and decide not to sell it i will cry

 

hey so i might be your future Texas neighbor i may move back this spring/early summer. The Alamo is calling my name

 

 

[vaillant]

Btw, I think we should rename this thread the Non-US GA comic thread?

 

After all who is to say that the Americans aren't the "foreigners" from our POV ?

 

 

I have tried several times to explain foreign comics (of course, as referring to one’s own country of origin) and foreign editions are different things, but no one listens to me and these threads recently opened by Tim are already getting messy because there is a mixture of material posted.

 

At least, in my opinion, we should have

 

– a thread for foreign editions of american (U.S.A:) comic books, which is a topic which interests a portion of american collectors;

 

-– a thread about foreign comics (comics originated in different countries and cultures, and we can even go by language).

 

Yours is an original canadian comic, and in my criteria does not belong here.