The disastrous way in which Novaro Published the comics of Wonder.
If you are a veteran player of Wonder You will be aware first SandwichesThe companies responsible for the distribution of comics of The house of ideas In Spain they were Summit, Heather y Agostini Planetwith a fairly chaotic result in the second case, but what concerns the relationship between Wonder y Novaro. Continue reading the article until the end to find out.
If we are honest, we must recognize that this was the editorial responsible, initially, to bring to our country the adaptation of the legendary Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man (1976), from the work of Gerry Conway y Ross AndruThis has come to our language with the title Superman vs. The surprising Spider Man (Spider-Man) (1977), a comic in tabloid format, whose coverage is shown in the image that accompanies this paragraph, which, despite not being exempt from disputes, as we said at the time, marking generations, since the readers were waiting for a clash between two iconic superheroes for a long time A.D y Wonder. Subsequently, we show the cover of the Spanish edition published by Novaro.
The incursion of Novaro In Wonder It was not limited to this project, as it also distributed the Mexican version of John Carterwithin the publication Cheerful Sundays (1954 – 1082), a weekly who was responsible for the collection of different titles inside.
From the report of Cheerful Sundays With the company Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. Came from afar, since they had already published their material Tarzan In 1951, the weekly of Novaro They would offer you the publication of John Carteralthough he had already been in charge of adapting the contents of the character that the company had sold Golden keytranslating the name of the protagonist as Juan Carter.
The series produced by Wonder On this character, responsible for Marv Wolfman y Gil Kanesaw the light inside Alegre Sundays No. 1303 (1979), whose coverage can be seen pursuant to this paragraph and was responsible for the inclusion of the first two comics of John CarterAlthough in a particular way as nefarious, since three pages of the initial number have been suppressed, as well as number 5, while in the second they distributed with the Splash page and page 6.
However, the cuts already mentioned, very similar to those who performed Use with Wonderthey went a lot further with Novarosince they also dedicated themselves to simplifying the texts, when they translated them from English, especially in those publications that used the format Aquila seriesSince its dimensions were 19.5 x 14 centimeters, Muhco smaller than usual. Since the size of the sandwich was the same, some extreme cuts sometimes hindered the compression of the text from readers.
Randy the sample already mentioned by Happy tamme It is possible that only the same thing seems to be marketed in our country, the same has not happened with the numbers 1316, 1330, 1344, 1356, 1368, 1380, 1392 y 1444who were also responsible for the series of adventures of John Carter. However, the distribution of Novaro It was so irregular in Spain that readers were never sure if they would have had a surprise when they went to the usual sales point.
In the event that it is not enough, for the above head Tarzan, Novaro He also used material from the collection of Wonder call Lord of the Jungle (1977 – 1979) to understand with content of other sources, resorting, this time to the format called Ávestruz serieswhose measures were 25.2 x 16.5 centimeters, a size much closer to that of the comic books of the standard book than that of Aquila series. One conite, we can see the cover of the first issue of Tarzan Posted by Novaro in 1973.
As curiosity, you can emphasize that the materials of Hulk, the incredible man y Conan, the barbarian which have been published by Novaro They also saw the light in the format Ávestruz seriesBy enjoying your header since 1980, although there is no registration that this content has come to cross the Pozzanghera.
In short, it’s very true Novaro It allowed us to enjoy first class material, such as the aforementioned adaptation to the Spaniards of Superman vs. The surprising Spider Man (Spider-Man)since it did not come to light until Zinc He re -emerged Already in the nineties. However, the publication of cutting materials such as John Carterpure style HeatherThe irregular distribution of some of their heading and the fact of indiscriminately mixed materials of different origin on the same character do not leave Novaro as a great reference for the distribution of the content of Wonder In Spanish.
