Thought I’d do this as a new thread rather than just in the random comics one, just to get more eyes on the title.
I bought some original art this month. It’s pages for a French reprint of a 60s Rawhide Kid comic and I’m trying to work out where it’s from etc. The original Leiber/Tartaglione art has been photostated and then the individual panels removed from their original pages layouts and put in two tier BD style layout (in a different size page format). The artwork’s then been extended to fit this new dimension, along with changed placement of word balloons, more detail in backgrounds etc. I’m not sure who did the extended art, but it’s a fairly seamless match to Tartaglione’s existing inking.
The back of each page has pencilled “Leiber” then issue numbers from ten up (in the French style of using a ^ instead of #) and 1/2 or 2/2, suggesting the pages were serialised in pairs across the indicated issues. The original page numbering on the art has been changed to reflect the increased page count from the panels being spread out more though.
I’ve tried looking for info on reprints of Rawhide Kid. Comics.org tells me that this issue (#73) has been reprinted in Norwegian, Dutch, German and French, but the French edition indicated is a Canadian production that, from what I can see, just ran straight reprints of US stories (albeit in black and white and relettered) in the original size format. The lettering on these pages I’ve got is far nicer than the French-Canadian ones too.
A couple of the pages have things written on the back in pencil, but the handwriting is hard to read (and in French) so the most I’ve been able to make out is that it’s just notes for the letterer.
Does anyone know of any French BD publication/magazine that serialised Marvel reprints like this? The original US issue came out late 60s, so it’d have to be after that. My gut says 70s, but I could be way off.
