Teddy Ted
| Comic | |
|---|---|
| title | Teddy Ted |
| country | France |
| author |
Jacques Kamb Roger Lécureux |
| Illustrator |
Yves Roy Gérald Forton |
| publishing company | Vaillant |
| magazine | Vaillant |
| First publication | 1963-1975 |
Teddy Ted was a French comic series about the adventures of a fictional cowboy in North America during the time of the Wild West . The series was published from 1963 to 1975 by Editions de Vaillant, Paris. It was written by comic book writers Jacques Kamb and Roger Lécureux. The draftsmen were Francisco Hidalgo (pseudonym: Yves Roy) and Gerald Forton. In Germany, a translation was published as an additional story in the comic series Schwarzer Wolf ( Bastei-Verlag , 1975 to 1977).
Plot and characters
Teddy Ted, the main character in the series, is from Arizona. With his horse Stormy he experiences adventures in the Wild West. Supporting characters in the series include the mestizo Apache , the Mexican guitarist Sancho and Jack Hilt , a cowboy with a wooden leg.
Publications
A total of 122 Teddy Ted stories were published in France from 1963 to 1975. The first story was published in issue 1005 of the French comic magazine Vaillant by Editions de Vaillant. From 1969 onwards it was published in the successor magazine Pif Gadget by the same publisher. The circulation of this comic magazine, on the concept of which the German comic magazine Yps was based, reached up to 1 million copies in the early 1970s. The last Teddy Ted story was published in Pif Gadget, issue 312. Reprints of individual stories appeared in the 1970s and 2006.
A German translation was published under the title Teddy Ted - The Man from Arizona as an additional story to the comic series Black Wolf in the years 1975 to 1977 by Bastei-Verlag. A total of 68 four-color comic books were published. The additional stories usually had a length of approx. 10 pages, but sometimes they were also more extensive.
reception
Michel Houellebecq mentions the comic series in his novel Elementary Particles . The protagonist Michel remembers his youth and the formative effect that moral values and ethical ideas in the comic series Teddy Ted and other series in the magazine Pif Gadget had on him.
Web links
- Teddy Ted (additional story to the comic series Black Wolf) on comicguide.de
- Le petite musée de Teddy Ted (French website)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of the characters on the website Le petite musée de Teddy Ted
- ↑ Cf. the Teddy Ted bibliography on the Musee de Teddy Ted website and the overview of the Pif Gadget booklets on the Pif Collection website ( memento of the original from August 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Overview of the booklets on the Comichunter website - Black Wolf (with additional story Teddy Ted - The Man from Arizona)
- ^ The additional story Ritt in Ketten (Schwarzer Wolf, Heft 57, pp. 12–31) had z. B. 20 pages.
- ↑ See Michel Houllebecq, Elementarteilchen, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag 2006, Chapter 6, p. 39 f.
