FBI - G-man Bruce Cabot
FBI - G-man Bruce Cabot was a German comic book series with crime stories based on the Whodunit concept from Moewig Verlag , published every four weeks between 1969 and 1971.
On every cover there was a further addition: “In the fight for law and order”. In addition to the individual issues, Moewig also published six FBI anthologies , each with three already published comic books.
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The two main characters were FBI inspector Bruce Cabot and Special Agent Patrick O'Hara, who went on a murder hunt as a team in New York. Other consistently appearing people were her shady informant, the so-called "professor", who always had very useful information for her, and Old Bebe Smith, the colored owner of the night club "Paradise", where Cabot always met his informant. Cabot and O'Hara were also supported by Inspector Hood from the Manhattan I Homicide Squad and Phil Cramer, head of the FBI's New York section.
The dramatic stories were characterized by several murders committed in the course of the plot (committed by an unknown perpetrator who was only exposed at the end), with Cabot and O'Hara usually in action-packed situations (such as physical confrontations and shootings until the perpetrator was arrested) ) got. At the same time, it was a matter of course for everyone involved to reach for a cigarette. In contrast to Cabot, O'Hara also had some private life in the comics: his girlfriend Susan Delaware, for whom his investigative work at the FBI often left him with too little time.
When portraying the main characters, the artists relied on recognition: the dark-haired Bruce Cabot was usually seen in a blue suit with a tie, the blonde Patrick O'Hara usually wore a turtleneck under his jacket.
The completed stories, drawn realistically in color, showed a certain resemblance to the successful Jerry Cotton booklet series from Bastei-Verlag .
The stories came from the artists of Studio Giolitti, such as Umberto Sammarini (No. 3, 5, 7, 14, 18-19), Giorgio Cambiotti (No. 1, 9-10, 12, 22), Angelo Torado (No. 4) and Mario Pedrazzi (No. 13).
All cover pictures were drawn by Klaus Dill .
reputation
As Wolfgang J. Fuchs and Reinhold C. Reitberger note in their detailed analysis Comics - Anatomie eines Massenmediums (1973), FBI - G-man Bruce Cabo t at the time could be seen as a contrast to the comics published by Moewig at the same time (such as the one with an erotic touch Science fiction series Uranella or the children's magazine Plop! ). Moewig's comic book series FBI - G-man Bruce Cabot was at the time of its publication the only ongoing independent and realistic German crime comic series. Accordingly, the publisher sometimes advertised on the back of the booklet with the sentence: "Ask for the only CC that exists in Germany: the crime comic FBI!"
Eight issues of the series were reprinted in Norway (as FBI - Med G-man Bruce Cabot ) and Sweden (as Razzia - Med G-man 33 Bob Kelly ). There was also a Spanish adaptation.
Volumes
The series comprises a total of 22 booklets with 32 pages each:
- Late revenge
- Deadly snow
- Kidnapping in Manhattan
- Devilish game
- Flowers of death
- Murder in the Bowery
- Murder in the studio
- The man from beyond
- Pasardos dies tomorrow
- Dead witnesses don't sing
- This sugar is not sweet
- Shots at Tiffany's
- Inspector Cabot is playing high
- Construction killer
- The Sunday murder
- Poker for Jenny
- The treasure from Washington Square
- Murder in the crosshairs
- With marked cards
- The dead in the Hudson
- Deadly letters
- The executioner of the Bronx
Web links / secondary literature
- Entry in the Comic Guide (accessed June 19, 2020)
- Entry at Ralf H. Comics (accessed July 4, 2020)
- FBI - G-man Bruce Cabot also finds positive mention in Jost Hermand: The Culture of the Federal Republic of Germany 1965-85 . Nymphenburger Verlag, 1988, ISBN 978-3-485-00577-7 , p. 263 (accessed on July 23, 2020)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang J. Fuchs, Reinhold C. Reitberger: Comics - Anatomy of a mass medium . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-499-11594-8 , p. 232 , doi : 10.2307 / 1572929 .
- ↑ Comicsinfo Denmark on Razzia (series from 1972). Retrieved July 24, 2020 .
- ↑ FBI: G-man Bruce Cabot (Ediciones Tucán). Retrieved July 24, 2020 (Spanish).
- ↑ Cabot, Agent secreto del FBI (Sena éditorial). Retrieved July 24, 2020 (Spanish).