Reddition – Zeitschrift für Graphische Literatur (which translates to Reddition – Magazine for Graphic Literature) is published by Edition Alfons in Germany. The magazine series commenced in 1984 under the title ‘Comic-Reddition’. From edition number 19 published in 1991, the magazine was retitled to ‘Reddition – Zeitschrift für Graphische Literatur’. As at March 2024, a total of 77 editions have been released.
Reddition – Zeitschrift für Graphische Literatur edition number 71 published in July 2020 features comic strip characters published in German newspapers and magazines. It contains 84 color pages measuring 21cm x 29.7cm with German text. The front cover can be seen below.
The Phantom can be seen on the front cover in the form of a comic strip story, amongst other comic book characters. The description provided by Edition Alfons on this editions contents is:
Early on in the German economic miracle, comic series found their way onto the pages of daily newspapers and magazines as welcome entertainment – long before a local comic book culture emerged. The sales model was adopted from the USA by King Features and successfully established in Germany by the Frankfurt-based company Bulls.
With the dossier in this issue of REDDITION, we look behind the scenes of the almost forgotten success story of these comics in Germany and document the emergence of newspaper comics in the USA, their establishment in Germany after the Second World War and their heyday from the 1950s onwards. These newspaper publications can be documented so precisely because previously unpublished information, old running cards and the press archive of the German licensor Bulls were available to us for research purposes.
In addition to portraits of bestselling series such as Flash Gordon , Prinz Eisenherz , Star Wars , Hägar , Calvin and Hobbes or Modesty Blaise and an overview of Franco-Belgian series such as Suske and Wiske , Tintin or Bessy in newspapers, we also present lesser-known series successes and lots of background information about them traditional syndicate business.
A variety of comic strip based articles are found within this edition, their titles and authors can be seen below:
- The Century of Comic Strips by Michael Hein
- Blondie by Stefan Schmatz
- Terry and the Pirates by Peter Schimkat
- How Prince Valiant Came to Germany by Stefan Schmatz
- Bulls Press Service – The beginnings of Bernd Frenz
- Newspaper Comics Non-stop Since 1948 by Stefan Schmatz
- Big Fights in Small Strips of Superheroes in Peter Osteried’s Newspapers
- The Phantom – Superhero With Modern Unique Selling Points by Bernd Frenz
- Rip Kirby – Gentleman Detective by Stefan Schmatz
- European Comic Classics in German Newspapers by Volker Hamann
- The Peanuts in Germany by Ole Frahm
- Disney at Bulls by Jens R. Nielsen
- Flash Gordon – The Ultimate Science Fiction Adventurer by Matthias Hofmann
- James Bond newspaper comics by Thorsten Hanisch
- Her name is Modesty by Peter Osteried
- Hägar – The Most Popular Newspaper Comic by Stefan Schmatz
- Doonesbury by Falk Straub
- Off to the stars – Star Wars and Star Trek by Peter Osteried
- Calvin and Hobbes by Michael Hein
- Zits by Falk Straub
- The big Bulls interview – Making Comics Socially Acceptable in Germany by Alex Jakubowski
The Phantom is found on page 26 within Reddition – Zeitschrift für Graphische Literatur edition number 71. The informative 4 page article is titled ‘The Phantom – Superhero With Modern Unique Selling Points’, written by Bernd Frenz. The commencement of the article can be seen below.
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