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Post by Carl on Jan 26, 2018 4:07:04 GMT
And who remembers this?  I don't know in which other countries this was available but it was my favourite comic book series for sure! Rene, A comic about racing would have been cool, but this one wasn't sold in America. I knew every comic, read most, and would have noticed it. The cover makes the TEXAS Drivers Club member appear not entirely sane. Why would he be so upset that a car is departing? What color does red blended at speed with yellow make?   Cheers, Carl |
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Post by Carl on Jan 26, 2018 4:47:27 GMT
Carl, you are spot-on and as a western aficionado whose favourite actors are the likes of Gary Cooper, Dick Powell, Randolph Scott and my favourite western is Shane - which, sadly i have watched that often i know a lot of the dialogue - Chris, That's truly one of the great westerns and I suspect another devoted fan could have been Clint Eastwood. He wasn't a particularly good actor, but he may have borrowed the lone rider mystique from "Shane" and made it more mysterious. What Shane did was conceivable. It could have been done by someone with great fighting ability and good luck. But many of the Clint Eastwood characters, especially in "High Plains Drifter" and "Pale Rider", were magical and even miraculous. After my critical remarks, I've got to ask myself one question: "Do I feel lucky? Well, do I?" If Clint Eastwood comes looking for me, tell him Dirty Harry was a poseur and a toff. Just don't tell him where to find me. Cheers, Carl |
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Post by René on Jan 26, 2018 15:25:58 GMT
And who remembers this? I don't know in which other countries this was available but it was my favourite comic book series for sure! Oh yes! In Denmark that comic was featured in a serial magazine called "Fart og Tempo" (which translates to "Speed and Pace"). In Denmark there has been a tradition for renaming cartoon characters with Danish names; thus, for example, Donald Duck is "Anders And" (and = duck). Michel Vaillant also got another name, but for some reason not a Danish name. In "Fart og Tempo" he was called Mark Breton!! Cool Mikael. But when Michel Vaillant is called Mark Breton, what are the Vaillant cars called then? |
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Post by Carl on Jan 26, 2018 20:42:41 GMT
Oh yes! In Denmark that comic was featured in a serial magazine called "Fart og Tempo" (which translates to "Speed and Pace"). In Denmark there has been a tradition for renaming cartoon characters with Danish names; thus, for example, Donald Duck is "Anders And" (and = duck). Michel Vaillant also got another name, but for some reason not a Danish name. In "Fart og Tempo" he was called Mark Breton!! Cool Mikael. But when Michel Vaillant is called Mark Breton, what are the Vaillant cars called then? Names are often changed when new markets are entered, although if the Vaillant became the Valiant, made by Plymouth and so dull it put drivers and passengers to sleep, the entire venture was doomed.  |
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Post by René on Jan 26, 2018 23:39:04 GMT
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Post by Carl on Jan 26, 2018 23:59:37 GMT
I definitely would have read those comics and enjoyed the realistic artwork... We had a wide array of comic books in America, but none dealt with racing.
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Post by mikael on Jan 27, 2018 4:53:20 GMT
Cool Mikael. But when Michel Vaillant is called Mark Breton, what are the Vaillant cars called then? René The cars were called Vaillante, as is the original version. The series was never published in its entirety in Denmark. The stories that appeared in the magazine "Fart og Tempo" were taken from the original albums and were presented in the magazine in a piecemeal fashion. Thus the family-story was never told in Denmark - and I was not aware of it. According to a Danish "Comicwiki" (where from I also took the previously shown front pages) some full albums were published in the 1970's as special deluxe issues of "Fart og Tempo" -- but I was not aware of that (I don't think they were not sold in the bookstores I knew in those years). And according to "comicwiki.dk" the name was actually changed in 1981 - from Mark Breton to the original Michel Vaillante! I was not aware of that either - at that time I was fully absorbed in motocross ... Some albums published in Denmark in the early 1970's:    Some albums published in Denmark in the early 1980's:   And to make the confusion complete, in 1983 the name Mark Breton was used yet again! The album to the left was published in 1983 and republished in 1989 (See the name in the top line). The album to the right ("Number 13 starts") was published only in 1990 - again using "Mark Breton".   A nice, careful description of the series' publication story in Denmark is given here (but in Danish): comicwiki.dk/wiki/Mark_Breton |
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Post by chrisb on Jan 27, 2018 7:03:53 GMT
Carl, cool, i won't tell, honest - well unless told to....
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Post by René on Jan 27, 2018 9:10:08 GMT
And to make the confusion complete, in 1983 the name Mark Breton was used yet again! The album to the left was published in 1983 and republished in 1989 (See the name in the top line). The album to the right ("Number 13 starts") was published only in 1990 - again using "Mark Breton". Thanks for the background info, very nice! The last two albums are actually re-releases as the originals where from the late 50's / early 60's. The Vailliant adventures were always situated in the present time so you only have to look at the cars to know in what period the book was released.  |
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Post by Carl on Jan 29, 2018 22:20:45 GMT
Carl, cool, i won't tell, honest - well unless told to.... Sir Chris, Congratulations on being knighted! There are several western classics because the genre was so popular. Also great are "High Noon" and the original "Stagecoach". Remarkably, John Wayne began his film career as a singing cowboy for Monogram Pictures. Promoted by the studio as "Singin' Sandy", he couldn't sing or play a guitar and it's almost embarrassing to watch him pretend. His final film, "The Shootist", about an old gunfighter dying of cancer is also excellent. Wayne was dying when he made it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_cowboyI've converted my front door to an old west saloon's swinging doors, so if Eastwood approaches he'll be at ease and, after several shots of whiskey, tell me who betrayed my location. Cheers, Carl |
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Post by chrisb on Jan 30, 2018 6:38:56 GMT
Carl, wonderful, Gary Cooper is probably my favourite but for some reason I could never get into John Marion Wayne, aside from the excellent Quiet Man, still think he deserved an oscar for that film, but High Noon one of my top ten and that expression at the end, yea - i've copied it for years
my thanks for your congratulations _ I feel honoured -
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