Pantera Bionda

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Pantera Bionda ( Blonde Panther ) was the title of an Italian-language comic book series published between 1948 and 1950. The comic, which enjoyed great popularity due to the portrayal of the main actress, was the first Italian comic to have problems with censorship in its home country.

Plot, draftsman and author

The blonde titular heroine, who was raised by an old Chinese woman, fights in the jungles of Southeast Asia against soldiers of the Japanese army who did not surrender after the end of World War II and who oppress the local population. She is sometimes helped by Fred, a North American researcher. In the last issue she marries her longtime boyfriend.

The cartoonist was Enzo Magni, who signed with Ingam and was supported by numerous other artists. The author of the stories was Gian Giacomo Dalmasso .

publication

The first edition of Pantera Bionda appeared in Italy on April 24, 1948. Although the series had a circulation of more than 100,000 issues in its country of origin, it was discontinued in 1950 after a total of 108 issues had been published. A revival of the series in the late 1960s with more daring drawings as part of the emerging sex wave in the comic area was unsuccessful.

The series publisher Frank Märtins published 19 issues of the series in 1950 under the title Blonder Panther . A reprint of these 19 issues as well as the German first publication of the other 89 issues of the original series took place in the years 1978 to 1981 by the Norbert Hethke Verlag . In the years 1991 to 1993, Norbert Hethke Verlag reprinted the 19 issues published in the 1950 series. Adventures of Pantera Bionda also appeared in the Dutch magazine Actie under the title Bionda, de Pantervrouw .

censorship

Pantera Bionda was the first Italian comic to have problems with censorship . In particular, the Catholic Church of Italy protested against the series. The publisher was indicted and convicted several times in Italy. As a result, the section of the title character was smaller and her skirt became longer. These changes had an immediate impact on sales, so the series was discontinued in 1950.

In Germany, more than half a decade after the series was first published, an indexing application was made for the booklets with the numbers 2 and 3. The date of negotiation at the Federal Testing Office for Writings Harmful to Young Persons was April 13, 1956; the request was not granted. Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff sees the reason for the large time difference that at the time of the application, remaining copies of the Blonder Panther appeared in flea markets and in surprise bags .

literature

  • Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 193.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pantera Bionda on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on January 13, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge : To be continued . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 67.
  3. ^ A b c d e Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 193.
  4. ↑ Blonder Panther in series publisher Frank Märtins on comicguide.de , accessed on January 13, 2012
  5. ↑ Blonder Panther in Norbert Hethke Verlag (1978-81) on comicguide.de , accessed on January 13, 2012
  6. ↑ Blonder Panther in Norbert Hethke Verlag (1991-93) on comicguide.de , accessed on January 13, 2012
  7. ↑ a b Ingam on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on January 13, 2012
  8. ↑ Nederlandse Stripgeschiedenis: 1950 - 1960 import on lambiek.net (Dutch) , accessed on January 13, 2012
  9. ↑ a b Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Comics - History of a Popular Form of Literature in Germany since 1945 . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-56521-6 , p. 109.
  10. ↑ Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Comics - History of a Popular Form of Literature in Germany since 1945 . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-56521-6 , p. 169.