Old-fashioned Comics: October 2025

Monday, 20 October 2025

King Classics (1977 King Features Series) #13 - Don Quixote of La Mancha / #14 - The Gold Bug

Publication Dates: 1977 - 1978

Number of Issues Published: 24 (#01 - #24 )

Color: Color

Dimensions: 7 1/4 inches wide by 10 1/2 inches tall

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Limited Series

Publication Type: magazine

Tracking: Cardstock cover

Notes: All issues first released in 1977 and reissued in 1979.

All reprints from Spanish publications.

Editorial Bruguera, S.A. 1977. King Features Syndicate, New York. Printed in

Talleres Gráficos de EBSA, (Barcelona 1977 - Spain)

A back-cover promo lists 32 titles, though most sources state that only 24 were published. The remainder, planned but possibly never published in English are: 25 A Tale of Two Cities; 26 Ben Hur; 27 Heidi; 28 Little Women; 29 The Mysterious Island; 30 The Pirate; 31 The Phantom Ship; 32 King Solomon's Mines.

https://www.comics.org/series/26575/

13 - Don Quixote of La Mancha

Price: 0.59 USD Pages: 36

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : Antonio Bernal (painting)

Script, : José Antonio Vidal Sales, como Cassarel (adaptation)

Miguel de Cervantes (original)

Marion Kimberly (credited as Dr. Marion Kimberly) (translation)

Pencils & Inks: Juan García Quirós

Reprints from

Joyas Literarias Juveniles (Editorial Bruguera, 1970 series)

#98 - Don Quijote de la Mancha (1974)

14 - The Gold Bug

Price: 0.59 USD Pages: 36

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : Antonio Bernal (painting)

Script : Ramón Bacardit (adaptation)

Edgar Allan Poe (original)

Marion Kimberly (credited as Dr. Marion Kimberly) (translation)

Pencils & Inks: Colmeiro

Reprints from

Joyas Literarias Juveniles (Editorial Bruguera, 1970 series)

#88 - El escarabajo de oro (1973)

Scanned by ComicWanderer

THE WIZARD OF OZ - A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION. PART 02- Contributed by Jens Terje

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind.

The film stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the film, while others made uncredited contributions. The music was composed by Harold Arlen and adapted by Herbert Stothart, with lyrics by Edgar "Yip" Harburg...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz

Jens Terje offers us the following files:

Dorothy Gale - Journey to Oz 001-003 (2004-2006)

Dorothy of Oz Prequel #1-4 + TPB (2012) Complete

Eric Shanower - Six Oz Books, 1986-2006

Grimm Fairy Tales presents Oz 4 TPB (2014-2015)

Grimm Fairy Tales Presents Oz 001-006 (2013-2014)

Grimm Fairy Tales Presents Oz Reign Of The Witch Queen 001-006 +TPB (2015)

Marvel Illustrated - Dorothy & the Wizard in Oz 01- 08 (2011-2012)

Marvel Illustrated - The Marvelous Land of Oz 01-08 (2010)

Marvel Illustrated - The Road to Oz 01-06 (2012-2013)

Marvel Illustrated - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 01-08 (2009) (Full run)

Oz Squad 01-10 + Special Issue (1991-1996 Full run)

This magnificent contribution by Jens Terje consists of 5 parts, which include
an exhaustive repertoire of comics related to this popular fictional character.

Many thanks to Jens Terje !!

Ellery Queen. Four Color Years (1961-1962) The Complete Series. Mike Sekowski - Compiled by Voltaire57

Ellery Queen is the name of both an author and an investigator.

The investigator is, of course, a fictional character. As for the author,

there are a multitude of them. It began with two cousins,

Manfred Lee (1905-1971) and Frederic Dannay (1905-1982), who had the idea

in 1928 to enter a detective novel competition, which they won hands down.

This was the beginning of a career that would lead them to create the famous

Ellery Queen Magazine (1941) and allow other authors to continue the adventures

of their favorite character, but always under the same name.

Summary

1. The Mummy's Curse #1165 Mars 1961 Mike Sekowski 16 pages

2. The Underwater Clue #1165 Mars 1961 Mike Sekowski 16 pages

3. The Missing Man #1243 Novembre 1961 Mike Sekowski 15 pages

4. A False Alibi #1243 Novembre 1961 Mike Sekowski 02 pages

5. The Witch's Victim #1243 Novembre 1961 Mike Sekowski 15pages

6. The Voodoo Victim #1289 Mars 1962 Mike Sekowski 16 pages

7. The Curse of Kane #1289 Mars 1962 Mike Sekowski 16 pages

More information about "Comics Compilations made by Voltaire57" HERE

Thanks to Voltaire 57 for these magnificent albums

The Victor (1051-1100) D.C. Thomson, 1961

The Victor

The Victor was a British comic paper published weekly by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The Victor ran for 1,657 issues from 25 January 1961 until it ceased publication on 21 November 1992. Associated with it was the annually published The Victor Book for Boys. This annual was first published in 1964, with the last edition published in 1994. A hardback book, The Best of The Victor, was published in 2010 ready to commemorate the 50th anniversary of this popular adventure comic. The book featured a selection of reprints from the weekly comic....

The Victor (1051-1100)

April 11th, 1981 - Mar 20th, 1982

Professor Kraken Integral (Knockout and others 1962-1964) Solano López (#01-#03) & Tom Kerr (#04)

Professor Kraken was a distinguished British scientist who investigated

bizarre cases of science gone wrong, and then tried to set things
right again.

One such instance was the plague of giant animals that threatened

Britain, results of exposing normal animals to a mixture

of weed-killers and fertilisers.
He was often accompanied on his cases by fellow scientist Professor Needler

and his assistant Chris Blower.

Comments: Kraken seems to have been inspired by the similar Professor Challenger.

From the Vaults of Time

Knockout from #1239 [24-11-62] to Valiant and Knockout to #0034 [25-05-63]

Art: Solano López

The Time Machine

Valiant and Knockout from #0035 [01-06-63] to Valiant Companion
Paper to Hurricane #0075 [07-03-64]

Art: Solano López

Kraken and the Giant Menace

Valiant Companion Paper to Hurricane

#0076 [14-03-64] to 0096 el [01-08-64].

Art: Solano López

Kraken and the Ogre from the Past

Valiant Companion Paper to Hurricane

from # 0097 [08-08-64] to # 0103 el 19-09-64,

Art: Tom Kerr

Later, in the Valiant Summer Special of 1967 and 1968, a reduced version of From the Vaults of Time was published, with resizing and deletion of vignettes, modifying the title of the adventure: The Day of the Dinosaurs and Return of the Monsters.