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Juniorpress
Juniorpress was a Dutch publisher known for its translations of American comic books. It published Marvel Comics, Image Comics Image Comics is an American comic book publisher and is the third largest comic book and graphic novel publisher in the industry in both unit and market share. It was founded in 1992 by several high-profile illustrators as a venue for creator-ow ..., and DC/Cliffhanger (comics), Cliffhanger comics under its own name, and the imprint ''Baldakijn Boeken'' for the publication of DC Comics superhero comics such as ''Batman (comic book), Batman'', ''Superman (comic book), Superman'', and the ''Teen Titans, New Teen Titans''. It operated from 1976 to 2015. History Founded by Rob Spijkstra, Juniorpress started as the Dutch-language branch of the Swedish publishing group Semic Press. Although founded in 1973, the company didn't start publishing comics until 1976, with a selection of war comics, war, Western comics, Western, romance comics, romance, and hor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semic Press
Semic Press is a Swedish comic book publishing company that operated from 1963 to 1997. Known for original comics as well as translated American and European titles, Semic was for a long time the country's largest comic book publisher. For many years, Semic published the official translations of American (mostly) superhero comics produced by DC Comics and Marvel Comics. The Semic Group had divisions in a number of European countries — mostly to distribute translated American comics — including Spain, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, France, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Original titles published by Semic included ''Bobo'', ''Bamse'', ''FF med Bert'', and Swedish treatments of James Bond and ''The Phantom''. In 1997 Semic was sold to the Danish media house Egmont. History Semic Press was the comics division of the Swedish publisher Åhlén & Åkerlunds, which was founded in 1906 by Johan Petter Åhlén (1879–1939) and Erik Åkerlund (1877–1940). publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |