Titanus (comic)

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Titanus was a German-language comic series drawn by Helmut Nickel and Hansrudi Wäscher . The series, published in 1954 and 1955, was the first science fiction comic series to be produced in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Draftsman and plot

The series, which was based on a novel by Claus Eigk , was drawn by Helmut Nickel, who was replaced by Hansrudi Wäscher after number 3, under the pseudonym H. Humbert. With the change of draftsman there was also a leap in the plot. At the beginning the fictional city ​​of Niflheim , located at the South Pole , which was threatened by foreign powers, was the scene of the event, but Niflheim fell victim to an atomic bomb explosion under the washer . The focus of the action was the space pilot Terry Star, who has to defend himself against the intrigues of an adversary on a US space base.

The booklets number 4 and number 5 contained, in addition to the eponymous story, a western adventure drawn by Wäscher with the title Leather Stocking .

publication

Titanus was published in 1954 and 1955 by Titanus Verlag, which belongs to Gerstmayer Verlag. The row was laid out as a 3-D row; So the issue number 1 appeared with the appropriate glasses and in two-color print and the subtitle Die plastische Bilderzeitung . After the magazine did not get the approval the publisher had hoped for, number 2, which, like number 3, had already been designed as a 3-D version, was published with a delay of several months as a four-color print with the subtitle Die utopische Bilderzeitung . With the change from Nickel to Wäscher, the booklets with the numbers 4 and 5 appeared in black and white. After the publication of issue number 5, the series was discontinued.

The Titanus series was reprinted in 1978 by the Comic Book Club and in 1994 by Norbert Hethke Verlag . The Comic Book Club reprinted in black and white. A revised reprint in Piccolo format, supplemented by a sixth copy , was published in 1989 by the Viennese publisher Hutterer & Förster.

literature

  • Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 124.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 134
  2. ↑ a b c Titanus in Titanus Verlag on comicguide.de , accessed on March 24, 2010
  3. ↑ a b Titanus in the Comic Book Club at comicguide.de , accessed on March 24, 2010
  4. ↑ Titanus in comicguide.de on Norbert Hethke Verlag , accessed on March 24, 2010
  5. ↑ Titanus, the Lord of Niflheim (revised by Gerhard Förster) on d-nb.info , accessed on July 25, 2013