Freitag, 31. Dezember 2021

WORKING WITH DIFFERENT SOURCES

Luckily I found HULK newspaper strips in an oversized (and folded) comic magazine series in ex-Yugoslavia. Now I own all the daily strips of the 9th story "Murdock Mountain", but...

all the speech and thought balloons and even the text boxes were altered in size in order to fit the Yugoslavian text. And still the US pocket books have gaps where things have been cut, removed or retouched.

So, sometimes it's hard to put the pieces together and recreate the original appearance like it was supposed to be. Here is the first panel of the strip from June 9th 1980. The pocket book lacks of text (to fit with the the panels of Sunday page before) and the piece of drawing on the left. The Yugoslavian version shows altered text balloons and text box. The microfiche is not the best of sources due to the size in comparison with the scanned strips. But at least we have a result.