Tim Tyler's Luck
Tim Tyler's Luck is the best-known comic strip by the American comic artist Lyman Young . The comic, which Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff counts as one of the "classics", appeared from 1928 to 1996 and was also represented under various titles in German-speaking countries.
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Tim Tyler's Luck is the story of the orphan boy Tim Tyler, who dreams of becoming a pilot. As an office boy at an airline, he met Spud Savins, with whom he traveled to Africa, where most of the adventures have taken place since the early 1930s. During the Second World War , the two hired the coast guard to look for adventure again in Africa after the war.
Publication and draftsman
Tim Tyler's Luck debuted on August 13, 1928 as the daily strip , the comic appeared on Sunday from July 19, 1931. Tim Tyler's Luck was continued by Young into the 1950s, after which his son Bob took over responsibility for the strip. During his active time, Lyman Young had many drawings done by employed draftsmen, whose work he only signed. These included Alex Raymond , Charles Flanders and Burne Hogarth , among others . The strip was finally shut down in 1996, the Sunday pages back in 1972.
In Germany, Tim Tyler's Luck first appeared as Tim and Tom in the Micky Mouse newspaper at the end of the 1930s . In 1951 Buchfilm Verlag published a brochure entitled Jochen und Klaus in Afrika . The Zauberkreis Verlag used the same title in the Kasperle series from 1958 to 1961 . Other German-language publishers that published Tim Tyler's Luck were Aller Verlag , Melzer and Feest .
In Italy, Tim Tyler's Luck was published under the titles of both Cino e Franco and Gianni e Piero . In order to circumvent the censorship in fascist Italy, the Americans Tim and Spud became the Finns Gianni and Piero, who fought against the Soviet Union .
In 1937 a film adaptation began as a twelve-part series of the same name with Frankie Thomas in the title role.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 54.
- ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 58.
- ↑ a b c d Andreas C. Knigge: Comic-Lexikon , Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , pp. 459-460.
- ^ A b Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 259.
- ↑ Lyman Young on comicguide.de , accessed on November 16, 2014
- ↑ Tim Tyler's Luck on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on November 16, 2014
- ↑ Tim Tyler's Luck in the Internet Movie Database , accessed November 16, 2014