Sun Koh

Sun Koh - Der Erbe von Atlantis is a fantasy booklet novel series that was written in 150 episodes by Paul Alfred Müller under the pseudonym Lok Myler in 1933-36 for Bergmann-Verlag in Leipzig .

The series reached three editions by 1945, with major text changes being made from the second edition, as well as a book edition. After the war, three more editions were published in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A revised book edition of the series was published between 1958 and 1961 in 37 loan book volumes by Hermann Borgsmüller Verlag. This edition served as the basis for the paperback edition of the series published from 1978 to 1980, which was published under the pseudonym Freder van Holk by Pabel-Verlag . All post-war editions were shortened to include racist, anti-Semitic or generally German-speaking expressions.

In 2005, the Zurich-based SSI-Verlag started a work edition that contains the original version of the novels and in which the changes to the subsequent editions are documented. So far (as of January 2015) only the first volume of the work edition has been published, which contains the first five novel booklets. In 2013 the publishing house Dieter von Reeken started another new edition. The whole series was reissued in nine volumes, each with 15 to 17 individual issues, images and extensive appendices; the last volume was published in early 2015. The basis is the first edition of the booklet, whereby the racist passages have not been edited, but have also been taken over critically, the original text in the invoice has been converted into Antiqua and the spelling has been adapted to the current rules.

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In the first volume, a man, dressed only in pajamas, lands with a parachute in London - Sun Koh, the bronze-skinned Prince of Atlantis . He is the last survivor of his lost continent and has a great responsibility: According to ancient traditions, Atlantis will emerge from the ocean again. The only one he can remember was going to the Excelsior Hotel in London. There he meets two people who will from now on faithfully accompany him on his many adventures, the often cheeky lift boy Hal Mervin and the undefeated heavyweight boxer Jack Holligan, a man from the Joruba tribe who would from now on prefer to be called Nimba . And he meets his arch opponent, the Mexican Juan Garcia, from whose hands Sun Koh first has to free his silent love Joan Martini. Lady Houston, whom he scorned, is repeatedly responsible for unpleasant incidents and more than once he has to save Joan Martini again.

Sun Koh learns that Garcia is responsible for the death of his parents and that he has a twin brother in the so-called sun city of the Maya on the Yucatan peninsula , the eccentric but good Manuel Garcia. He found a huge store of valuable Mayan remains there, which he gradually grants Sun Koh access to. Sun Koh is now financially independent and can gather scientists all over the world who can support him with their inventions when Atlantis emerges from the floods again. During his many adventures, Sun Koh repeatedly finds clues and mysterious buildings that suggest that part of the Atlanteans survived the sinking and settled on other continents. And when at the very end Atlantis rises again from the floods, Juan Garcia is ready again to wrest his legacy from Sun Koh. But with the help of his friends, Sun is able to defeat Koh Garcia and together with Joan Martini he is the first to set foot on the reborn continent.

The 150 original episodes

1933

1 A man falls from the sky
2 A scrap of parchment
3 sensation about straws
4 The murderous source
5 Chess to death
6 The treasure of the Mayans
7 The broken triangle
8 The human trap
9 The hypnotic submarine
10 The gas of madness
11 The cemetery of the Atlantic
12 The icy lightning
13 shots over Arizona
14 The canyon of death
15 The floating castle
16 storeys on the wrong track
17 The dew of hell
18 vortex about diamonds
19 The whispering knot
20 The veil of the condor
21 The spirit of the Inca
22 The locked realm
23 The unleashed hormone (2nd edition: the unleashed blood)
24 R 2 goes down
25 The floating gold factory
26 The shadows of Lisbon
27 The speaking lock
28 Burning air
29 The Living Rocket (2nd edition: In the Catacombs of Malta)
30 The red city
31 The laughing devil of the water
32 The smiling death
33 A syringe of rabies
34 The snake trap
35 The captives of the pharaohs
36 The artificial soul (2nd edition: Juan Garcia escapes)

1934

37 The murderous sound
38 will-o'-the-wisps over Saigon
39 The Angkor Tiger
40 The Khmer Crown
41 The striped nose (2nd edition: The trace of the Chinese)
42 Dynamite under Hong Kong
43 The crazy ship
44 gods of loneliness (2nd edition: people of loneliness)
45 The fist of the earth
46 pirates on board
47 The Revenge of the Spurned (2nd edition: The Disappeared)
48 The white hell
49 Alaska Jim
50 LFD-103 crosses all signals
51 The liquid plague
52 The dead of San Miguel
53 The white sultan
54 The atlas is on fire
55 Shackles of the Tuareg
56 Escape through the desert
57 Outpost Skirmish
58 The scent pack
59 The invisible
60 The dam of despair
61 The eating circle
62 The sparkling grave
63 Escape to prison
64 The brothers of the setting sun
65 The captive Buddhas
66 The revenge of Tibet
67 Jimmy Beckett is getting serious
68 The broken bridge
69 The flying ghosts
70 The Nippon Trail
71 Fight in the triangle
72 The avenging fall
73 The blind genius
74 Attack on the South Pole
75 The mutineers
76 The golden island
77 The valley of the slaves
78 Sydney, Blue Mountains and back
79 people lost
80 Mechanical hypnosis
81 white negroes
82 The Emperor of Africa
83 The missing deep-sea cruiser
84 The Atlantic Pirate
85 The honest finder
86 The enchanted forest
87 The strange hat
88 Chicago on a detour

1935

89 missile launched
90 Journey through space
91 The diamond river
92 Murder on the Tibagy
93 Court of the Garimpeiros
94 The criminal automaton
95 drums on the Amazon River
96 The feverish hell
97 White Indians
98 Law of Life and Death
99 The noose
100 The kidnapped prisoner
101 diplomats and criminals
102 Jack Dudle succeeds
103 The black cord
104 The breaking house
105 mines under Ophir
106 Escape from the slave valley
107 The heavy water
108 The lost caravan
109 The knocking ghosts
110 The burning temples
111 Explosion at excavator seven
112 people underground
113 The transmitter of feelings
114 Emergency buoy on the ocean
115 pyramid under water
116 Harry Shurman radio
117 4000 meters under the sea
118 The coward
119 The Arch Ranch
120 Indians on the way
121 The stone forest
122 The treasure from space
123 The city of the blind
124 Dr. Crage plays off
125 And Zipp breathes
126 Battle for the valley
127 men under masks
128 The robbers from the peach blossom mountain
129 The night of liberation
130 The golden cassette
131 The Isle of Doom
132 diamonds or dynamite
133 men under the ice
134 The hour of comradeship
135 mammoth hunters
136 All evil has its sting in it
137 Murder Palavers
138 The red-feathered egg
139 Nimba's death
140 The great stranger

1936

141 incident
142 camouflage
143 The wrong one
144 Robert Dunn sold
145 The shadow of the greater
146 hammer or anvil
147 The masks are falling
148 The last sign
149 volcanoes in the Atlantic
150 Atlantis

literature

Christian Adam: Reading under Hitler: authors, bestsellers, readers in the Third Reich. Galliani, Berlin 2010, pp. 206-211
Heinz J. Galle: Sun Koh. The heir to Atlantis and other German supermen. SSI Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-9521172-0-X
Paul Alfred Müller: Sun Koh. The legacy of Atlantis. Contains booklets 1–5 of the first edition. Edited and provided with comments and a historical appendix by Markus R. Bauer and Rolf A. Schmidt. SSI Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-9521172-2-6

Web links

Who is Sun Koh? - about the author Paul Alfred Müller, with numerous cover images
School for Übermenschen - about the author and the series
Sun Koh, The Hypnotized Submarine. Atlantis revisited. The small Zurich-based SSI publishing house begins with the new edition of the classic booklet novel Sun Koh . Zeit Online , October 6, 2006
DvR book series by Dieter von Reeken on the newly published complete edition