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Re: 20K in comic-books

From: Brian Taves <btav~at~loc.gov>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:27:44 -0500 (EST)
To: jvforum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

It should be noted that the original newspaper serialization of 20K before
publication in the original CI booklet was significantly longer. 1954
also saw publication of comic book texts inspired by the Disney movie of
the same year (US release was Xmas).

That original 20K 1947 used "clouds" and was not the first JV comic; the
founder, named Kanter, was a white Russian whose favorite story was
(naturally) Michael Strogoff, which became the first JV published in the
CI booklet series. The CI company was long ago sold, but the phenomenon
has been addressed in publications both geared toward collectors and
scholars. See for instance
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-1077-9

>>> 20K was published in comic book form by Classics Illustrated in
1947.
 Their address in 1968 was 101 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 but they
no longer appear in the phone book.  20K was No. 47 in a long series of
the world's classics including Michael Strogoff, Mysterious Island, 80D,
Earth to Moon, JTCE, Master of the World and Tigers and Traintors.  The
Mysterious Island comic book that I have was adapted by Manning L. Stokes
and illustrated by Robert Hayward Webb and David Heames. It was
copywrited by Gilberton Company.
Sid Kravitz

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Davor Sisovic wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> I'm involved in one very interesting publishing project: publishing of the
> comic-book adaptation of "20.000 leauges under the sea" by famous Croatian
> comic-book authors Walter and Norbert Neugebauer, first published in 1954.
> This is planned to be serious edition with a couple afterwords, and it's one
> of publishing projects which fits in programs dedicated to 100th JV death
> anniversary. I hope that I will be able to show it to you in Amiens, at
> least in a form of sample. Besides Croatian edition, we plan to "mutate"
> English, and probably French text; it would give more courage to the
> publisher if some of you could tell me if this project could be interesting
> for international JV audience.
>
> As I was told by Jean-Michel Margot, this Croatian 1954. comic-book
> adaptation of 20K is the worldwide second comic-book inspired by 20K, and
> the worldwide first one with the text in the "clouds". Jean-Michel and
> others: is this fact still "official"? Can I get some information about the
> first adaptation?
>
> Original 1954. drawing was black and white, but we plan to have a collored
> version. Artist who will make the colloring is Robert Neugebauer, the son of
> one of original authors!
>
> I'm looking for available additional information that could be used in
> preparing this book. I read that one of JV biographies written by Arnaud
> Bedat and published by Hachette in 1982. contains a bibliography of
> comic-books inspired with JV novels; is this book available? Could some of
> you send me a copy (I'll find something another for a trade)?
>
> And something more on a history of comic-books JV adaptations: as far as I
> know, the first comic-book JV adaptation was made by the author Djordje
> (Georges) Lobatschev nad published in Belgrade in 1936. - it was Michel
> Strogoff, and in the same year the same author starts, but not finished,
> "The Children of Captain Grant". Is this fact true, or there is something
> older?
>
> But, the time-border could be moved even earlier, again regarding one
> Croatian author, and, it even surprised me, my town of Pazin. Recently I
> discovered that famous Croatian painter, in his very early days when he
> attended the high-school in Pazin, in 1917-1918., drow and write a kind of
> proto-comic-book or picture book titled "Journey to the Moon"; I expect to
> get a copy of this, and then I'll be able to say more about that.
>
> Greetings,
> (and, I'm sorry if I didn't warn all of you that my old e-mail address
> davor.sisovic~at~pu.tel.hr changed to davor.sisovic~at~pu.htnet.hr)
>
> Davor Sisovic
> davor.sisovic~at~pu.htnet.hr
> http://www.ice.hr/davors/
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Brian Taves
Motion Picture/Broadcasting/Recorded Sound Division
Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue, S.E. Washington, D.C. 20540-4692
Telephone: 202-707-9930; 202-707-2371 (fax)
Email: btav~at~loc.gov


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Received on Wed 19 Jan 2005 - 02:37:02 IST

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