Pat's travel adventure

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Pat's travel adventure was a comic in the GDR , which was printed from 1967 to 1991 in the monthly youth magazine Atze . A total of 291 episodes appeared, making the series the second most published comic in the magazine after Fix and Fax .

Structure and content

Responsible for Pat's travel adventure were Wolfgang Altenburger , the editor-in-chief of Atze, as the author and Harry Schlegel as the draftsman.

The main character Pat was a journeyman first in the south of England, later in central Germany in the second half of the 19th century. During his travels he witnessed historical events and met well-known people from contemporary history. The stories were often given a political background. Pat always stood on the side of the weaker and the oppressed.

Each episode also included a competition. The question was always: What wasn't there back then? The reader had to find a hidden anachronism , i.e. an object, a building, an inscription or the like that did not fit into the time of the story.

Others

In addition to the monthly picture stories, four coloring books with Pat as the main character were published: Pat's painting book , Pat's Berlin painting book , Pat's new painting book and Pat's fire department painting book . In addition, an anthology with 40 stories from 1968 to 1977 was published in the 1980s.

In March 2008, issue 387 of the mosaic , the main character Pat made a cameo .

Alongside Fix and Fax, Pat's travel adventures were the most popular series in Atze magazine. The two comic series were considered the actual reason to buy the magazine, the other, mostly political stories of Atze were perceived far less interested.

Web links

Wikivoyage: In the footsteps of "Pat's Travel Adventure"  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 50 years of Atze: Figures and series. tangentus.de, accessed on September 30, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Guido Weißhahn: Comics in the GDR: Superheroes of Socialism. Spiegel Online, accessed September 30, 2014 .
  3. ^ Christoph Lüth, Klaus Pecher: Children's magazines in the GDR . Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7815-1503-1 , p. 31 .
  4. ↑ Mosaic Archive Issue 387, A Hairy Affair. Orlando's Mosaic Fan Club, accessed September 30, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Germany Archive . tape  42 , 2009, p. 1022 ( snippet from Google Books ).