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[vaillant]

Time to go to bed here.
Good night with the seventh (and last album featuring original italian material) Ciclone, the italian Superman. From 1940.
Which here helps an italian aviator escorting him across the ocean and defending him from an evil American businessman. Go figure!
NFS

 

Edited April 8, 2022 by vaillant

[vaillant]

And since Xeno1997 asked for more detailed information on the italian Superman and the journals featuring heroes from american comic books, here’s some:

Here’s an article in italian chronicling the early albums and apperances of the italian Superman, "Ciclone":
https://www.giornalepop.it/ciclone-superman/

This is the entry in the online Italian Comics Guide (by Gianni Bono) for the "Albi dell’Audacia" series:
https://www.guidafumettoitaliano.com/guida/testate/testata/155
And here’s the entry for the main journal L’Audace: https://www.guidafumettoitaliano.com/guida/testate/testata/679
By clicking on the tab "Titoli" one can see Ciclone/Superman starts on No. 299 (21.09.39) up to No. 304 (26.10.39), and then from No. 316 (18.01.40) to No. 324 (28.03.40).

Here’s entry for "Robinson": you can see Li'l Abner on the first page of issue 1:
https://www.guidafumettoitaliano.com/guida/testate/testata/5974
By clicking on the tab "Titoli" you can see The Flame runs across No. 1 (22.04.45) up to No. 12 (19.07.45) and the other characters sourced from american super-hero books as well.

This is the entry for "L’Intrepido", the journal I posted with the gas chambers panel (from a 1946 issue):
https://www.guidafumettoitaliano.com/guida/testate/testata/3643

[Eddy707]

On 4/8/2022 at 6:00 PM, vaillant said:

Le Téméraire No_18 (October 1, 1943) - Copy A

I repeat the description for convenience:
"Le Téméraire" was a famous "collaborationist" french comics journal published in Paris from January 1943 to August 1944. From January 1943 to the Liberation, it was the only magazine for young people distributed in the german occupied France.
Authors feartured include Erik (André René Jolly) with "Fulminate et Vorax", Francis Josse with "Marc le téméraire", Vica (Vincent Krassousky) with strips of his character Vica the sailor, and Auguste Liquois with "Vers les mondes inconnus” (a Flash Gordon inspired science fiction epic with racial overtones).

In issue 18, a Ku-Klux Klan feature becomes a means to express the anti-americanism of the collaborationist government. Author J. Savary teaches us that all the officers of the Klan were Freemasons, whose contributions gave rise to rebates and since the Klan dared to attack the Jews who control the American press, the latter, with the help of the 1934 elections, dealt the group a fatal blow.

This is a pretty scarce issue. I can take pictures of the other strips in the insides if you want.

Two more copies, this is Copy A. @Eddy707 has first dibs on whatever copy prefers.

Asking $60 / 55€  ON HOLD

 

I’ll take this. Thanks for holding it. 

[vaillant]

On 4/9/2022 at 5:44 AM, Eddy707 said:

I’ll take this. Thanks for holding it. 

Thanks to you.

[thecollectron]

On 4/8/2022 at 2:03 PM, vaillant said:

Intrepido Anno XIII No_53 (Casa Editrice Moderna, 1946)

Copy A

Italian comics journal, this year run is from the immediate post-war. This specific issue features what is (as for the bombing of the Monte Cassino Abbey in Topix) very likely the first known depiction of a gas chamber in comics (see last panel on the back page) within the story "Cuore garibaldino - Nuovo episodio", written by L. Peverelli with art by Vittorio Cossio.

The 1945 and 1946 year runs are pretty rare, paper was low quality straight after the war.

This copy is well-loved, paper browning at the top, I’d say in the GD range but hey, it’s a super-cool item to own!

Asking $35 / 32€

 

 

[vaillant]

On 4/9/2022 at 5:52 PM, thecollectron said:

Thank you. Now sold items should all have been marked as such.

While I try to find the time to prepare pictures and list more, here’s a discount option:
 10% off everything listed so far for those which have already purchased something.

[vaillant]

USA in Wort und Bild #12 (1952)

VF (slight rust on staples)

"USA in Wort und Bild" ("USA in words and pictures") was a DDR propagandistic magazine about supposed political, economic, moral, cultural and general social grievances in the USA and their effects on politics and life in West Germany. The editor-in-chief was the writer and journalist Alexander Georg Friedrich, which also directed the radio broadcast "Die Wahrheit über Amerika" ("The truth about America").
This issue has relevance for comics history as it contains an article titled "Das suße Gift" ("The sweet poison") about anti-communism as a means to corrupt youth, Topps and the comic books industry mentioning Fredric Wertham.

Asking $45 / 41€  SOLD to SOTIcollector

Spoiler

Back cover:

Spoiler

And no matter what… apparently when you have to discredit american culture, the KKK is always the favorite topic…

 

Edited April 11, 2022 by vaillant
SOLD

[vaillant]

Intrepido Anno XIII No_53 (Casa Editrice Moderna, 1946)

Copy B

Italian comics journal, this year run is from the immediate post-war. This specific issue features what is (as for the bombing of the Monte Cassino Abbey in Topix) very likely the first known depiction of a gas chamber in comics (see last panel on the back page) within the story "Cuore garibaldino - Nuovo episodio", written by L. Peverelli with art by Vittorio Cossio.

The 1945 and 1946 year runs are pretty rare, paper was low quality straight after the war.

A better copy, some yellowing on the paper at the top/right edge but no brittleness, in my opinion this one sits in the VG range.

Asking $55 / 50€  SOLD to thecollectron
 

Spoiler

 

Edited April 11, 2022 by vaillant
SOLD

[vaillant]

Sciuscià (French edition) #24, 35, 44 (S.A.G.E., 1949)

Sciuscià was an italian series which was published in strip format in the post-war, starting in 1949, inspired by the Vittorio De Sica movie of the same name: Shoeshine (Italian: Sciuscià [ʃuʃˈʃa], from Neapolitan pronunciation of the English), released in 1946. Sometimes regarded as De Sica first masterpiece, the film follows two shoeshine boys who get into trouble with the police after trying to find the money to buy a horse.

The series similarly dealt with the adventures of a boy who was the protagonist in an Italy divided by the war events.

When the series was published in France, a few years later, the publisher (S.A.G.E.) decided to publish the strips grouping them three-per-page, producing very slim, small sized comic books instead of Italy's original strip albums.
For these they provided covers custom drawn by a French artist (I do not know the name), some of which are fascinating and of great impact. The first year run, as it is for theItalian strip-sized one, is not common.

I’m offering three issues with the war-themed covers as a lot.

Asking $45 / 41€ for the lot   SOLD via PM

 

Edited April 12, 2022 by vaillant
SOLD

[vaillant]

This is how the Italian original Sciuscià strips look, compared to the French "comic book" edition.
Original issues No. 24 and  No. 35 (please note that in French the series loses the accent on the final "a).
NFS

 

Edited April 10, 2022 by vaillant

[thecollectron]

On 4/10/2022 at 2:28 PM, vaillant said:

Intrepido Anno XIII No_53 (Casa Editrice Moderna, 1946)

Copy B

Italian comics journal, this year run is from the immediate post-war. This specific issue features what is (as for the bombing of the Monte Cassino Abbey in Topix) very likely the first known depiction of a gas chamber in comics (see last panel on the back page) within the story "Cuore garibaldino - Nuovo episodio", written by L. Peverelli with art by Vittorio Cossio.

The 1945 and 1946 year runs are pretty rare, paper was low quality straight after the war.

A better copy, some yellowing on the paper at the top/right edge but no brittleness, in my opinion this one sits in the VG range.

Asking $55 / 50€

 

 

May I buy Copy B instead of Copy A or is that against the rules?

[vaillant]

On 4/11/2022 at 12:02 AM, thecollectron said:

May I buy Copy B instead of Copy A or is that against the rules?

Feel free to do so, I will mark Copy A still available, no problem.

[SOTIcollector]

On 4/10/2022 at 5:19 PM, vaillant said:

USA in Wort und Bild #12 (1952)
VF (slight rust on staples)

"USA in Wort und Bild" ("USA in words and pictures") was a DDR propagandistic magazine about supposed political, economic, moral, cultural and general social grievances in the USA and their effects on politics and life in West Germany. The editor-in-chief was the writer and journalist Alexander Georg Friedrich, which also directed the radio broadcast "Die Wahrheit über Amerika" ("The truth about America").
This issue has relevance for comics history as it contains an article titled "Das suße Gift" ("The sweet poison") about anti-communism as a means to corrupt youth, Topps and the comic books industry mentioning Fredric Wertham.

Asking $45 / 41€  ON HOLD

Back cover:

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And no matter what… apparently when you have to discredit american culture, the KKK is always the favorite topic…

If it is, or if it becomes, available I will gladly take it!

 

[vaillant]

On 4/11/2022 at 2:14 AM, SOTIcollector said:

If it is, or if it becomes, available I will gladly take it!

 

Yes, it was on hold for you — I was almost forgetting you asked me!
Marked as sold now.  Thanks much!

[thecollectron]

On 4/10/2022 at 2:28 PM, vaillant said:

Intrepido Anno XIII No_53 (Casa Editrice Moderna, 1946)

Copy B

Italian comics journal, this year run is from the immediate post-war. This specific issue features what is (as for the bombing of the Monte Cassino Abbey in Topix) very likely the first known depiction of a gas chamber in comics (see last panel on the back page) within the story "Cuore garibaldino - Nuovo episodio", written by L. Peverelli with art by Vittorio Cossio.

The 1945 and 1946 year runs are pretty rare, paper was low quality straight after the war.

A better copy, some yellowing on the paper at the top/right edge but no brittleness, in my opinion this one sits in the VG range.

Asking $55 / 50€  ON HOLD for thecollectron if he wants the better grade copy.
 

Thanks! I would like to buy the higher grade copy.

[vaillant]

On 4/11/2022 at 5:42 AM, thecollectron said:

On 4/10/2022 at 11:28 PM, vaillant said:

Intrepido Anno XIII No_53 (Casa Editrice Moderna, 1946)

Copy B

Italian comics journal, this year run is from the immediate post-war. This specific issue features what is (as for the bombing of the Monte Cassino Abbey in Topix) very likely the first known depiction of a gas chamber in comics (see last panel on the back page) within the story "Cuore garibaldino - Nuovo episodio", written by L. Peverelli with art by Vittorio Cossio.

The 1945 and 1946 year runs are pretty rare, paper was low quality straight after the war.

A better copy, some yellowing on the paper at the top/right edge but no brittleness, in my opinion this one sits in the VG range.

Asking $55 / 50€  ON HOLD for thecollectron if he wants the better grade copy.
 

Thanks! I would like to buy the higher grade copy.

Expand  

Yours, thank you. 

Copy A still available, all should be updated now.

 And the 10% off discount is still going for those which already purchased.

Edited April 11, 2022 by vaillant

[Xeno1997]

On 4/7/2022 at 3:52 PM, vaillant said:

Audace No_299, 301 (September-October 1939)

Superman started to be presented in Italy in apocryphal form in 1939. Some may already be familiar with "Ciclon el Superhombre", which was the spanish version, done by the very same Italian publisher (under the "Hispanos Americana Ediciones" trade name), which lasted over fifteen issues between 1940 and 1941. Equivalent (but not identical) albums were published in Italy starting in 1939, but at the same time, strips produced in Italy by the brothers Baggioli started to appear on "L’Audace", a historical comics journal which would then be famous as it was finally acquired by Gianluigi Bonelli that built upon it his editorial venture becoming one of the leading publishers of comics here.

Audace #299 sees the beginning of the first italian story arc of "Ciclone" (the italian "reinvented" version of Superman) and second appearance overall in Italy. Written by Vincenzo Baggioli and drawn by Zenobio Baggioli). Included is a copy of #301, with the first installment. Superman/Ciclone lasted for at least 15 issues on "L’Audace". In the inside pages you can also find Tarzan renamed "Sigfrido", Popeye and other less known features from italian authors.
Issues of L’Audace running from 299 to 330 are very scarce and hard to find. These copies aren’t in their best shape but are complete and a true historical landmark pieces as far as Superman historical worldwide impact goes.

Asking $275 / 255€ for both.

Detail from page 2:

On #301 the Ciclone strip appears on the last page:

More pictures in spoiler tags:

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Take per PM

[vaillant]

On 4/11/2022 at 10:26 PM, Xeno1997 said:

Take per PM

L’Audace #299 and 300 are yours. Thanks!

[TupennyConan]

Thank you for this thread. 

[vaillant]

On 4/12/2022 at 12:30 AM, TupennyConan said:

Thank you for this thread. 

I hope to keep it going little by little. Mostly now I have duplicates of european journals but I may be lucky in acquiring some additional items…