Héroïc albums

Héroïc-Albums was a Belgian comic magazine that appeared from autumn 1945 to December 1956. The publisher was the Belgian comic artist and author Fernand Cheneval . The first edition appeared under the name Héroïc Collection before it was renamed Héroïc-Albums.

The peculiarity of the magazine was that instead of the continuation stories usual with Spirou and later also with Tintin , only complete stories were published from the start. Initially the magazine appeared monthly, from 1947 twice a month, from 1949 to 1956 finally weekly.

One of the first series of the magazine was the aviator series "Bill Flight" , drawn and written by Fernand Cheneval himself , which was later replaced by the series "Attila" , also by Cheneval . Cheneval soon provided a platform for many up-and-coming Belgian talents. Maurice Tillieux published »Felix«, a series that preceded Jeff Jordan . A little later, Tibet ( "Dave O'Flynn" ), Greg ( "le chat" ), and Jidéhem ( "Ginger" ) were also permanent authors of the house. The translation was "Dick Tracy" by Chester Gould .

Finally even Fernand Dineur switched from Spirou to heroic albums with his series "Tif und Tondu" (Eng .: " Harry and Platte " ). This began a fierce competition with Spirou and Tintin for the best artists and their series, in which Heroic albums gradually fell behind. When the magazine came under public criticism for allegedly violent content, Fernand Cheneval decided to suspend Héroïc albums.

After a hiatus of thirteen years, Fernand Cheneval revived his Héroïc albums in 1969. However, this second attempt only lasted seven numbers. At the beginning of 1970 the story of this Belgian magazine went, which in the post-war period temporarily gave some of the greatest Franco-Belgian draftsmen and authors a publishing home (among others, Fred Funcken, Albert Weinberg, François Craenhals , Leika, Ange Roy published on Heroic-Albums and Marcel Moniquet), over.