Don Pedro (comic)

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Don Pedro is the title character of the comic series of the same name by Helmut Nickel , which appeared in the 1950s from issue 19 as a second series to Hot Jerry by Junior-Verlag and which has since appeared in the name of the magazine.

Plot and publication

The monochrome series, published by Nickel under the pseudonym Hugh J. Haffspoke, is set in Central America in the sixteenth century at the time of the Spanish conquest . Knowing that there was a contemporary observer of unknown name and presumably of German origin, Nickel created the fictional character Peter Degenhardt , only called Don Pedro by the Spaniards , who accompanied the conquest of Central America as a critical chronicler. Nickel, who studied art history and ethnology, used the series to bring the reader closer to the setting of his stories on ethnographic excursions.

In the following years, Don Pedro was reprinted several times. Among other things, as a Comixene special volume in 1977 and 1978. The complete Hot Jerry / Don Pedro series was reprinted from 1992 to 1994 by Norbert Hethke Verlag .

reception

For Eckart Sackmann , Don Pedro is "the first high point in Nickel's comic book". Andreas C. Knigge even sees Don Pedro as "undoubtedly the best series by Helmut Nickel", which "stands out positively from the mass-produced goods that were common at the time".

literature

  • Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexicon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 343
  • Eckart Sackmann: Helmut Nickel. In: RRAAH! Volume 15, No. 56, August 2001, ISSN 0933-601X, pp. 32-33

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hot Jerry / Don Pedro on comicguide.de , accessed on March 16, 2010
  2. ↑ a b Eckart Sackmann: Helmut Nickel. In: RRAAH! Volume 15, No. 56, August 2001, ISSN 0933-601X, p. 32
  3. ↑ Comixene special volumes at comicguide.de , accessed on March 16, 2010
  4. ^ Hot Jerry / Don Pedro reprinted by Norbert Hethke Verlag on comicguide.de , accessed on March 16, 2010
  5. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 343