3d comic

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3D comics are a special form of drawn picture stories ( comics ) that use stereoscopic technology .

history

At the beginning of the 1950s, numerous so-called 3D films were made in the USA with the aim of luring viewers lost to television back to the cinema. With 3D glasses , these films could really be seen in three dimensions . In contrast to the animation films or computer games known today as "3D", which only receive a photo-realistic optical perspective using graphics programs ( CGI ) , in real spatial films or picture stories a separate image is created for each eye, which is then created with a suitable aid (here 3D glasses) can really be seen with spatial depth.

At the performances, it was common for short films to be shown in the opening program, including cartoons with well-known characters such as Donald Duck , Mighty Mouse , Bugs Bunny and others, of which stories have already been published in comic form. So it made sense to bring out comics in 3D of these characters. One or two 3D glasses in red / green or red / cyan were enclosed with the booklets for viewing. The plot of the 3D comics took place in the individual panels mostly on four to five levels, rarely on more and even more rarely with flowing transitions between the levels of action or elements protruding from the picture.

For example, four editions of Mighty Mouse were produced: Issue 1 from October 1, 1951 at St. John Publishing Co. with 32 pages in the 3-D illustrative process and the main story Men of Sola on 10 pages, then Issue 1 from October 1953 with the story of Jupiter Saboteurs drawn by Joe Kubert and Norman Maurer and on it issue 1 from November 2, 1953, also with 32 pages at St. John Publishing, which also has some 3D advertisements and the main story The Terror of the Deep on 14 Pages contained. The fourth edition was published as Issue 1 on December 3, 1953 by St. John, again with 32 pages and the main story The World Beneath on 20 pages, with a one-page story with Heckle and Jeckle in 3D and one with Dinky in 3D . For 75  Pfennig there was also a German edition of "Mighty Mouse - the mighty mouse" under the title "The 3-dimensional hit - cheerful spatial image stories for young and old" and the enclosed red / green glasses. In collectors' circles, this issue is traded for up to 100 euros.

In Germany, the comic characters Fix and Foxi also published a booklet with 3D picture stories and in Mickey Mouse magazines in the booklets MMM 43/1994 and MMM 04/2002 with Aufstand der Jumping Bean and MMM 04/2002 The Curse of Nostrildamus stories for the red / blue glasses. For some newer films, such as Michael Jackson's short music film Captain EO , 3D comic books have been released for merchandising .

3D comic booklets (excerpt)

Most comic books appeared within a few months in the early 1950s, very often, but not exclusively, published by Real Adventures Publishing Co. and St. John Publishing Co. , which was the first to bring out 3-D comics. In some issues so-called blinkeys were used, a short text story that first had to be read through the blue filter and then through the red filter - somewhat confusing, as one always had to close one's eye.

  • 1953 - Abbott and Costello (up to 6 levels in the panel)
  • 1953 - Adventures in 3-D (with 3D advertisements)
  • 1953 - Batman ( The Fowls of Fate , The Robot Robbers and others)
  • 1953 - Captain 3D (four-color cover picture by Jack Kirby was implemented in 3D inside the magazine)
  • 1953 - Felix the Cat
  • 1953 - The Hawk , western with up to six levels
  • 1953 - Little Eva , two booklets with a total of 64 pages
  • 1953 - Mighty Mouse , four issues with a total of 108 pages
  • 1953 - Superman , author unknown, with well-drawn stories on four levels: The Man Who Stole the Sun , The Orign of Superman and The Man Who Bossed Superman .
  • 1953 - 3D Sheena Jungle Queen
  • 1953 - Tor (3D Tarzan- style hero adventure by Joe Kubert and Norman Maurer, including a domestic monkey named Chee-Chee )
  • 1953 - The Three Stooges
  • 1954 - Peter Cottontale
  • 1954 - Three Dimensional Tales From The Crypt of Terror
  • 1954 - 3D Tales of The West
  • 1954 - Cheerios 3-D giveaways with Disney panels
    0000 - Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge: The Firefighters
    0000 - Mickey Mouse and Goofy: Pirate Plunder
    0000 - Donald Duck's Nephews: The Fabulous Inventors
    0000 - Mickey Mouse: The Fabulous Ming Vase
    0000 - Mickey Mouse: Flight to Nowhere
    0000 - Donald Duck: Treasure of Timbuktu
    0000 - Mickey Mouse and Pluto: Operation China
    0000 - Donald Duck: The Magic Cows and others

After new editions of Batman and Superman comics with changed comic styles from the 1980s, 3D comics were also produced in outstanding quality and published polychromatically under the title Action Comics at DC Comics (in multi-color printing, which also includes a limited colored Image impression enabled).

literature

  • David Hutchison (Eds.): Norman Jacobs and Kerry O'Quinn present Fantastic 3-D. (Fantastic 3-D). Starlog Press, New York NY 1982, ISBN 0-931064-53-8 ( Starlog Photo Guidebook ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Background in Duckipedia