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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8088524, member: 128351"]I too am fond of comics. I cannot say I collect them, which would not be true, but I have really many of them, only European comics of the golden age (I mean the 1970s - 1980s) and also some great mangas and recent graphic novels. At some time I also acquired some very much sought after albums dating back to the fifties, like old versions of Tintin (aaah, the old version of "<i>Land of Black Gold</i>", where Tintin arrived in pre-1948 mandatory Palestine, was abducted by the Irgun, then abducted again by the Arabs fighting the Jews, while the British occupiers could control nothing... The version one can find now was completely changed! Or the old version of "the Shooting Star", made under Nazi occupation, in which the villains were Americans with the Star and Stripes, and their boss a Jewish banker of New York...). I also have some original drawings and plates.</p><p>My sons read all my albums and are considered by their friends as comics experts. They made me discover Japanese mangas (their passion), especially Jiro Tanigushi, probably the greatest. </p><p>I am completely ignorant about American comics, though I know there are excellent things too in this area. When I retire, I will start to read them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8088524, member: 128351"]I too am fond of comics. I cannot say I collect them, which would not be true, but I have really many of them, only European comics of the golden age (I mean the 1970s - 1980s) and also some great mangas and recent graphic novels. At some time I also acquired some very much sought after albums dating back to the fifties, like old versions of Tintin (aaah, the old version of "[I]Land of Black Gold[/I]", where Tintin arrived in pre-1948 mandatory Palestine, was abducted by the Irgun, then abducted again by the Arabs fighting the Jews, while the British occupiers could control nothing... The version one can find now was completely changed! Or the old version of "the Shooting Star", made under Nazi occupation, in which the villains were Americans with the Star and Stripes, and their boss a Jewish banker of New York...). I also have some original drawings and plates. My sons read all my albums and are considered by their friends as comics experts. They made me discover Japanese mangas (their passion), especially Jiro Tanigushi, probably the greatest. I am completely ignorant about American comics, though I know there are excellent things too in this area. When I retire, I will start to read them.[/QUOTE]
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