Norman Scott Robinson, a moderator of the Comic Book Historians Facebook Group, recently highlighted a great resource of non-American comic covers reprinting US comics, Globo Comico – located on the photography site, Flickr.
The resource includes covers of many international reprints of many superhero, humour and adventure comics, including, for example, the 172 issues featuring original non-canon Sgt. Fury stories/art that were published by La Prensa only in Mexico between 1971-1976.
The original material was licensed featuring work by Mexican artists Ramiro Zittle and José Luis González Durán.
Other albums include African, East Asian, European, Latin American, Middle Eastern, Indian comic covers and much more, offering a fascinating look at the way US comics and heroes have been sold to fans across the globe.
• Check out the Globo Comico Flickr Photostream at www.flickr.com/photos/globocomico
• Check out the Comic Book Historians Facebook Group | YouTube Channel
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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