ZACK album
ZACK Album was an album series in the context of the comic magazine ZACK , which appeared from January 1974 to November 1977 like the ZACK magazine by Koralle-Verlag .
Edition history
This album series, which is sold through the magazine trade, has a somewhat curious edition history: After the first seven volumes of the first seven volumes with Lucky Luke had appeared in the first ZACK album series, the ZACK Comic Box , it was decided to to outsource this series, because the comic box should conceptually present a colorful mix of series in line with ZACK's mixed characters principle . From January 1974, Lucky Luke was published as a separate edition from Volume 4, with the ZACK comic boxes 3, 5 and 7 subsequently being rated as Lucky Luke 1–3. When it became foreseeable that Koralle would hold the rights to Lucky Lukewould lose, one changed the appearance of the last volumes, in which the signet ZACK album was added from the eleventh volume. So then the Lucky Luke volumes 12-14 appeared as ZACK album 12-14 (volume 11 is designed so that it is still undecided whether the numbering refers to the series or series title). While Ehapa Verlag , which received the German license to publish the Lucky Luke albums, took over the Koralle numbering and started its edition with volume 15, Koralle continued the ZACK Album series with other series. Volumes by Luc Orient , Umpah-Pah , Rick Master and Lieutenant Blueberry were published there (also numbered from 15) . So the concept of the series no longer differed from that of the ZACK Comic Box, which was continued in parallel (now shortened to ZACK Box ).
At the end of the 1970s, Koralle then increasingly switched to releasing some series in the form of independent album editions (like Lucky Luke before , but there were also short-lived album series from e.g. Raumschiff Enterprise and Caine ), including Rick Master and Blueberry , in which the volumes previously published in the album series were counted retrospectively from volume 1 (so Rick Master started with volume 2, Blueberry with 3). But since the ZACK Box continued to appear, the redundancy of a second mixed series album series became even more obvious and so the ZACK album with volume 20 was consequently discontinued in November 1977.
List of individual volumes
| # | Series title | Band title | EVT | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucky Luke | Thick air in Dalton City | 11/14/1972 | So did not appear. ZACK Comic Box 3 was subsequently counted as Volume 1. |
| 2 | Lucky Luke | ... and the bounty hunter | 3.4.1973 | So did not appear. ZACK Comic Box 5 was subsequently counted as Volume 2. |
| 3 | Lucky Luke | ... and the Grand Duke | 8/30/1973 | So did not appear. ZACK Comic Box 7 was subsequently counted as Volume 3. |
| 4th | Lucky Luke | ... and the avenger of the disinherited | January 15, 1974 | As "Lucky Luke Volume 4" was released without the "ZACK Album" logo. |
| 5 | Lucky Luke | ... and the crazy inheritance | 2.4.1974 | Released as "Lucky Luke Volume 5" without the "ZACK Album" logo. |
| 6th | Lucky Luke | ... and hot hits from Mexico | 5.9.1974 | As "Lucky Luke Volume 6" was released without the "ZACK Album" logo. |
| 7th | Lucky Luke | ... and Ma Dalton's clean fruits | 3/13/1975 | As "Lucky Luke Volume 7" was released without the "ZACK Album" logo. |
| 8th | Lucky Luke | ... and the white rider | May 28, 1975 | As "Lucky Luke Volume 8" was released without the "ZACK Album" logo. |
| 9 | Lucky Luke | ... and the ghost town | August 21, 1975 | As "Lucky Luke Volume 9" was released without the "ZACK Album" logo. |
| 10 | Lucky Luke | The Daltons are being cured | 10/30/1975 | As "Lucky Luke Band 10" appeared without the "ZACK Album" logo. |
| 11 | Lucky Luke | A week in the wild west | 8.1.1976 | First appearance of the "ZACK Album" logo. Whether the statement "Volume 11" already refers to it or still to "Lucky Luke" cannot be clearly determined. |
| 12 | Lucky Luke | Western circus | 3/25/1976 | Here now clearly as "ZACK Album 12". And from here on, keep it up to the end of the row. |
| 13 | Lucky Luke | The Apache Canyon | May 1976 | |
| 14th | Lucky Luke | The Emperor of America | September 16, 1976 | Last Lucky Luke album on Koralle. The series was continued by Ehapa, taking over the numbering with Volume 15 (June 1977). |
| 15th | Luc Orient | The tyrant of Terango | 11/18/1976 | First non-Lucky Luke band in the series. |
| 16 | Luc Orient | Planet of fear | 3.2.1977 | Like the previous and following Luc Orient band (see # 20) the album edition of a story published in sequels in ZACK in 1972 . |
| 17th | Rick master | The killers from Mars | 8.4.1977 | Subsequently counted as volume 1 of the own album edition. German first publication. |
| 18th | Umpah-pah | The brave redskin | June 17, 1977 | New edition of the volume already published as ZACK Comic Box 2. Already a reprint from ZACK. |
| 19th | Lieutenant Blueberry | Uproar in the west | September 9, 1977 | Album edition of a story published in sequels in ZACK in 1972 . Subsequently counted as Volume 2 of the own album edition. ZACK Comic Box 6 was counted as Volume 1. In its own edition only volumes 3 and 4 were released, a fifth Blueberry album by Koralle then appeared again in the ZACK Box series. |
| 20th | Luc Orient | The steel forest | November 4, 1977 | Last "ZACK album". The series were partly continued in the ZACK Box series ( Umpah-Pah ) or as a separate album series ( Rick Master , Blueberry ) at Koralle. |
literature
- Armin Kranz and Oliver Manstein (eds.): Zakundär 1st special edition of the ZACK newspaper ZAKTUELL (self-published), Bremen 2000
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Ehapa only got the album rights for the series, Lucky Luke appeared in ZACK magazine until 1978. The magazine rights then went to Yps , where the series was published from 1979 onwards.
- ↑ The albums already published by Koralle were later included again by Ehapa in their edition, but received new numbers there.
- ↑ EVT = e rst v erkaufs t not been determined ag here in a band, there's only given the appearance of month / year.