Sunday, December 28, 2014

Add A Bit Of Color To Your Galaxy

Monday Arrow Day 5.









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7 comments:

Jon said...

Thanks for these. You posted week 3 twice and skipped week 2 (11-5). Also Gulliver's Travels is missing for week 1.

6:19 PM
Smurfswacker said...

I'm still trying to puzzle out the signature on "Son of the Buccaneer. Looks most like "Mattletoe." By Googling I found an Englishman and a couple of Australians named Mattletole, so it's a real name, but none were comic artists. Other possibilities are Mathatoe and Mathetoe (no Google results for either).

10:05 PM
Unknown said...

Might try googling the copyright holder.
"arts graphiques presse" brings up a bunch of stuff in French.
"art graphique presse" and buccaneer gets a promo page for Arrow from 1953.
D.D.Degg

3:43 AM
tom said...

A couple of years back I went to the Walden library to search their microfiche for Arrow sections but I was unable to find any.

5:54 AM
Smurfswacker said...

Thank you, Unknown! That lead was all I needed. The strip is "Le Fils du Boucanier" (Son of the Buccaneer) and was drawn by Christian Mathelot. It ran in the French comics weekly "Coq Hardi" from 1952 to 1953. The magazine's editor-in-chief, Marijac (Jacques Dumas) wrote the script. The story ran 47 pages.

"Arts Graphiques Presse" is listed only as publisher of "Baby Journal," a short-lived comic from circa 1949-1950. "Coq Hardi" doesn't seem to have been published under that company name. However Marijac was also editor (and publisher?) of "Baby Journal," so he may have used the name when syndicating "Coq Hardi" features overseas. Next question: how did this stuff wind up in an obscure American ready-print?

4:39 PM
Diego Cordoba said...

Though in Wikipedia they claim Coq Hardi never published foreign material, it's not true as they carried American series such as Mark Trail, Drago, Red Ryder, etc. Maybe it was through them that there was an exchange in material among publishers, and material from Coq Hardi ended here.

11:52 PM
Ger Apeldoorn said...

Great finds, guys! I hope Alan sees this as well. I will correct the mispost as soon as I can. This was a sneaky preposted set to have a week off, you know...

12:42 AM

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