Captain Kidd, Buccaneer was the title when it appeared in Thriller Comics #96 and we think it may have been an American newspaper strip although that's something of a stab in the dark. Can anyone identify the strip or the artist? The only firm information I can offer is that this reprint appeared in August 1955 and, presumably, the original dates from some time in the late 1940s or early 1950s.UPDATE (10 December 2007)
Mark-André has dropped Bear Alley a line -- see Comments -- with the answer... it's not an American newspaper strip at all but a strip from the French comic Vailant called "Le Cormoran". Serialised in 1948, it was drawn by Lucien Nortier and written by Jean Ollivier.
Mark-André also sent over the above scan of the strip as it originally appeared. So much better than the chopped up version that appeared over here. Many thanks to Mark-André.
Bonjour !
ReplyDeleteNo, it's not american, sir, it's french.
The original comic is "Le Cormoran", a series drawn by Lucien Nortier and written by Jean Ollivier in the weekly VAILLANT. The page where those drawings where traced (?) pasted (?) is dated from issue 151, april 01, 1948. It's the second episode in the "Cormoran series". If I was sure of the artist, I was not sure of the origin because I had not every issue of VAILLANT, so I asked my editor and friend Louis Cance -and sent him a print- who sent me in return a copy of the page. I'll try to sent you a scan.
Glad to help.
Marc-André
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