Bastei Publishing House

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The Bastion Publishing , actually BASTEI Roman area is an imprint of Lübbe AG .

Publishing history

Current publications

Novel booklets

In this area, the publisher is now a leader in the field of series aimed at male readers, as the competing publishers have cut their programs. The only remaining competitor is Martin Kelter Verlag , whose target group is primarily women.

The novel booklet series Maddrax , Sternenfaust and - the now discontinued - Bad Earth are an attempt to create a counterbalance to Perry Rhodan , the largest science fiction series from the publishing union Pabel-Moewig (VPM). In the crime and horror series, Bastei Verlag is the undisputed first place, as most of the competition has been discontinued. Some of the novel series (e.g. Dr. Stefan Frank , Der Bergdoktor , Hedwig Courths-Mahler and others) were also used as templates for television series and films.

Crime & Action

Westerns & Heroes

Scary & horror

Science fiction & fantasy

Aristocracy and the fate of women

Doctors & Fates

  • Dr. Thomas Sander
  • Dr. Stefan Frank
  • Emergency doctor Andrea Bergen
  • Chief Physician Dr. Holl

Home & Mountains

  • The mountain doctor
  • Homeland novel
  • Love of home
  • The country doctor

Magazines

  • Home melody
  • Roman revue

Discontinued publications

Novel booklets

  • The adventurers (adventure series like Indiana Jones, 38 volumes, 1992/93)
  • !America! - The incredible adventures of the German emigrant Jacob Adler in the New World (adventure series, 22 volumes by JG Kastner, 1995/96)
  • Bad Earth (science fiction series, 45 volumes 2003/2004)
  • Bastei adventure novel (adventure, 196 volumes, 1960 to 1964)
  • Chicago (crime series set in Chicago in the 1920s, 25 volumes)
  • Commander Scott (Science Fiction series, 42 volumes, February 25, 1975 to October 26, 1976)
  • Damona King - The Conqueror of Darkness (horror series, a total of 129 episodes as a separate series and in a ghost thriller )
  • Demon hunter Mark Hellmann (horror series, which mainly took place in the new federal states, 56 volumes)
  • Demonenland (horror series, mostly reprints, including by Wolfgang Hohlbein and Brian Lumley , 18 novels were new, 176 volumes from October 10, 1989 to July 9, 1996)
  • Fantasy , 28 issues from March 26, 1985 to April 8, 1986
  • The people of the deep (spin-off of Maddrax . 12-part mini-series for the publication of the 200th volume of the main series in 2007.)
  • The Clairvoyant (mystery series of the early 80s , 26 volumes)
  • The Witcher (49 volumes by Wolfgang Hohlbein)
  • The Terranauten (science fiction series, October 30, 1979 to December 21, 1981, 99 volumes and 18 paperbacks between 1981 and 1987)
  • The UFO files (1996-97, Mystery, 25 volumes in a pocket booklet)
  • Dino-Land (Fantasy, planned from the start as a mini-series with 15 volumes, October 19, 1993 to May 3, 1994)
  • Mystery novel (316 volumes from 1979 to 1985)
  • GeisterStunde (romantic thriller series, midnight novel second prints, 15 volumes, 2007)
  • Geisterwestern (Western horror novels, 30 volumes from 1975 to 1976)
  • Ghost thriller , first horror series published by Bastei Verlag. A. Ghostbusters John Sinclair , Tony Ballard and The Witcher , 597 volumes, July 13, 1973 to 1985
  • Horror shocker (horror series, mostly reprints, 73 volumes)
  • The uncanny adventures of Jessica Bannister (44 volumes as an independent series + 37 volumes as a sub-series in the midnight novel between 1996 and 2000, new edition 2016 to 2018)
  • Mark Baxter , 101 volumes, June 5, 1979 to March 14, 1983
  • Mission Mars (spin-off to Maddrax . 12-part mini-series from 2005, which led to volume 150 of the main series.)
  • Midnight Novel (Romantic Thriller, 802 volumes from 1985 to 2001)
  • Raven (12 volumes, reprint of the 11 issues by Wolfgang Hohlbein from the series Gespenster-Krimi (here 1981/84), additionally new 12th issue by Frank Rehfeld, 2003)
  • Rex Corda (science fiction series, 38 volumes, November 7, 1966) to volume 38 (August 28, 1967)
  • Santana (Western, volume 1 appeared on May 29, 1976, last volume 120 on January 5, 1981)
  • Shadow Realm (horror series, 3 novels in one booklet)
  • Special Force One (Action Series)
  • Spuk-Novel (170 volumes from 1979 to 1985)
  • Star fist
  • Texas Marshal (Bastei Lübbe Western Series 160 volumes)
  • Tony Ballard (horror series, 200 volumes by Friedrich Tenkrat between 1982 and 1990)
  • Torn (mix of fantasy, horror and science fiction, 50 volumes from 2001 to 2003)
  • Vampira (horror series, 50 volumes and 60 volumes in pocket booklet between 1994 and 1999)
  • Vampire (horror series, 20 volumes from October 16, 2001 to July 9, 2002)
  • Western Legends (Western series, 100 volumes, 2005–2007)
  • Wolves (mini horror series by Timothy Stahl, 6 volumes)

comics

After Gustav Lübbe's death in 1995, most of the Bastei Verlag comic series were discontinued. Ghostly stories as the last Bastei comic book survived until 2006. At the beginning of 2010, Bastei destroyed his entire comic archive in the course of the publishing house move.

Among the expenses there are also classic of American (z. B. The Phantom of Lee Falk ) and Franco-Belgian comic art (eg. As the Red Corsair and Buck Danny by the Belgian author duo Victor Hubinon and Jean-Michel Charlier ). Some edits and translations by Bastei Verlag are controversial because of numerous errors in content (examples of this in the article on Buck Danny ).

Others

  • Tony Tanner (novel series that was published online only, but is currently not available)
  • Wonderland of the most beautiful fairy tales / 24 issues (large-format booklets each with a single - 1968, published fortnightly)
  • The most beautiful for children / 16 issues (large format booklets - 1970/71 published monthly)

Web links

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  1. ↑ The data on the year of publication and issues are e.g. B. comprehensible in: Krägerermanns Comic Katalog 97/98 , Berlin (Krägerermann Verlag) 1996, ISBN 3-9804970-1-1
  2. ↑ http://www.pannor.de/?p=417
  3. ↑ "Bonbon" booklets presented on ComicHunters (www.comichunters.net)