Gigantic
Gigantik (also Sigma Gigantik or Sigma-Gigantic ) is a science fiction comic series.
action
Gigantik is the name of a small earth-like planet that travels as a spaceship with thousands of inhabitants through the galaxy to explore strange worlds. The main characters are the scientist Ronald Ranger and his friend Mireia Anderson, who, together with their robots Piccolo and Goliath, are confronted with alien life forms and have to master dangerous situations.
Edition history
The series was created as an in-house production of the German Koralle Verlag , which commissioned the Spanish artists Cardona and Mora with the series for the ZACK magazine and its accompanying objects and foreign editions of ZACK (superAS, super J, WHAM!). The cover picture of the first album was painted by Fernando Fernández . The series was published in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, as were Koralle's other in-house productions ( Kai Falke , Tony Stark , Jeremiah and many more) by Fleurus / Novedi, where it was continued after Koralle-Verlag withdrew from the comic sector .
Comicography
There are 7 albums (A), 10 short stories (7–35 pages) in magazine format (KG) and 6 short stories in pocket book format (TB). These are sorted chronologically according to the date of first publication in the following list:
| serial no. | A, KG, TB no. | German title | French title | German first publication in | French publications | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A 1 | The horror of the galaxy | La menace de la handles | ZACK 4-9 / 1979, February 8 - April 19, 1979 | super AS 10–17, album Fleurus 12/1979 | Reprint as album: Sigma Gigantic 1 (Koralle) |
| 2 | A 2 | Planet of the Damned | La planète des damnés | ZACK 10-15 / 1979, May 3 - July 12, 1979 | super AS 48–53, album EDI-3 12/1980 | |
| 3 | TB 1 | Pluvia is in danger | Chouette en danger! | ZP 34, June 1979 | super AS 26-27, album EDI-3 12/1980 | Modified to magazine format for publication in superAS, trimmed and supplemented panels |
| 4th | A 3 | Titans of space | Les titans de l'espace | ZACK 18-22 / 1979, August 23-21, 1979 | Novedi 05/1981 | |
| 5 | TB 2 | The green plains of Arcadia | ZP 36, November 8, 1979 | |||
| 6th | KG 01 | Lost in space | ZACK 3-5 / 1980, January 24-21, 1980 | 35 pages | ||
| 7th | TB 3 | Endless journey | ZP 37, March 6, 1980 | |||
| 8th | KG 02 | Alpha - The deceptive paradise | Alpha – paradis | ZACK 12/1980, March 13, 1980 | super AS 57 | 8 pages |
| 9 | KG 03 | The fourth dimension | Une histoire en deux temps | ZACK 1980: 13-14, 20-27. March 1980 | super AS 58-59 | 16 pages |
| 10 | KG 04 | The flying monsters of Gamma | Les monstres de gamma | ZACK 16/1980, April 10, 1980 | great AS 61 | 8 pages |
| 11 | KG 05 | Deadly UFO | Mayday! Menace non identifiée! | ZACK 24/1980, June 5, 1980 | great AS 69 | 7 pages |
| 12 | KG 06 | The valley of death | Des amis dans la vallée de la mort | ZACK 28/1980, July 3, 1980 | great AS 73 | 8 pages |
| 13 | KG 07 | The Ypsilon riddle | Le crime d'Athelstan Bigelow | ZACK 31/1980, July 24, 1980 | great AS 76 | 8 pages |
| 14th | KG 08 | (The Hell Planet) | La planète Enfer | (ZACK 33/80) | super AS 78, August 5, 1980 | 8 pages, the German release no longer took place due to the discontinuation of ZACK |
| 15th | TB 4 | The Lilliput System | ZP 39, August 7, 1980 | |||
| 16 | KG 09 | Les portes de l'au-delà | (ZACK 36/80) | super AS 81, August 26, 1980 | 8 pages, the German release no longer took place due to the discontinuation of ZACK | |
| 17th | KG 10 | La terreur de Zarkhan | (ZACK 37/80) | super AS 82, September 2, 1980 | 8 pages, the German release no longer took place due to the discontinuation of ZACK | |
| 18th | TB 5 | The snake galaxy | ZP 40, 1980 | |||
| 19th | TB 6 | The demons of the deep | ZP 42, April 1981 | |||
| 20th | A 4 | The sleeping planet | La planète endormie | Album: DgSFC 3 (Ehapa) | Hachette 10/1981 | as "gigantic" |
| 21st | A 5 | Lord of Gravity | Le maître d'un monde | Album: DgSFC 6 (Ehapa) | Hachette 05/1982 | as "gigantic" |
| 22nd | A 6 | The savior of light | Les seigneurs de la lumière | Album: DgSFC 8 (Ehapa) | Novedi 09/1983 | as "gigantic" |
| 23 | A 7 | Mr. Smith - Profession: God | Monsieur Smith profession: Dieu | Album: DgSFC 14 (Ehapa) | Novedi 09/1984 | as "gigantic" |
(Release = publication, ZP = ZACK-Parade, DgSFC = the great science fiction comics)