AH ! These are the droids I was looking for…http://www.rebelscum.com/comicbooks.asp and here is the international gallery…http://www.rebelscum.com/marvelcomics12.asp
Neat.
Its interesting to see the Finish gallery. Apart from the text, they’re the exact same issues that I have in my collection of Norwegian comics.
We might have discussed this, but Denmark sent all the stories across the Nordics and the publisher in Finland had no idea what numbers they were nor how many there are in total or in what order they were originally released. And it all ended with a complete surprise in the last number. Sweden got at least one extra story. It seems that at least Finland and Norway were both in the complete darkness and got the same short end of the stick.
Yes, we discussed this in another thread at some point, but I did’t know sending the to Finland had anything to do with the wacky continuity. Most Norwegian comics I have from that period are more-or-less like that. I always assumed that the stories were edited in Denmark and only sent to Finland for printing. Or do you have any more information about this?
At least the Norwegian comics made some sense when it came to the continuity. At the top of the slash page were in the US it said “Stan Lee presents; the greatest space fantasy of all”, etc. in Norway it would often say something like “This story takes place immediately after Return of the Jedi”, or something like that to re-orientate you when suddenly in 1985 you got a story originally fro 1981. Was it like this in the Finish releases well? (or am I repeating myself again?)
Also, I’m curious now, what was the “surprise” in the last number? And what extra story did Sweden get? I know Sweden got more Dark Horse stories in the 90’s, but I didn’t know it applied to the Marvel ones as well.
Yeah, they had a little continuity but it wasn’t because of Finland but what was sent to here. Unfortunately I don’t have my comics at hand right now, but based on an online article which quotes the texts from the articles made by the translator in the comics, he said in 1987 that they have no idea what’s going on in the US and which number is which. In 1986 he also said that they got the material from Denmark and that in 1987 the comic structure was done in Sweden. Sweden sent the stuff to Finland and Norway. It was asked in #1 of 12 in 1987 that as the last number was published in the US, what would happen to the Finnish comics. He said that Norway would have material for 1987 and 1988 and that they would publish “everything that exists”. I don’t know if any of this was discussed in the readers’ questions in Sweden or Denmark, but those would be the places to get info how the material got here. Based on this, it would seem that they would just get more or less random stories from the US and just distributed them to our countries. I doubt that they would just be sitting on all Marvel releases and then you get stories from here and there and to have every year different number of actual releases which seems unplanned.
The surprise was that it ended in #12 1987 without any warning, it was like “this is the last number, thanks everyone” even though previously there was talking about the next year and new “clone wars movies”. The reason was that they could not get any more material and there was nothing to be done. Probably Marvel didn’t care at that point?
Sweden got #92 which wasn’t released here.