vanhornluke wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 10:04 am
Loving this research!!! Do the Columbian comics Cazador vol. 4 #22-24 (Sep to Nov 1996) count? The Marvel appearances seem more extensive than, say, in the Brazilian Judoka issue. The same goes for some Marvel appearances in India and Indonesia. Is the reason for their lack of inclusion the flagrant disregard for copyright? If so, I'm wondering if that's an inconsistency, since I doubt the Turkish publisher had DC's permission to use Superman in a Conan story. I would think these stories, copyright confusion aside, are interesting enough to at least be mentioned.
How about an honorable mention for the Spider-Man newspaper strip from Mexico?
I was aware of some of the Cazador appearances, but left them out for the same reason I left out Spider-Man appearing in India's Nagraj comic - no sort of authorization from Marvel to use their characters. I was already being fairly liberal with allowing in stories produced by licensors who (probably) didn't have the right to make new tales, and by Marvel creators working producing unofficial new tales of the characters they'd worked on officially (and often created). My concern was that if I open the doors to literally any comic that has used a Marvel character the lists would never end. I left out Spider-Man, Captain America, etc. all appearing in Tornado's Captain Klep strip for the same reason.
https://spiderfan.org/title/comics/tornado.html
As I noted on the main introductory page to the lists:
"I've included new stories where the licensee had permission to produce original material. I've also included cases where the licensee only had permission to reprint stories, not make their own new ones, but did the latter anyway, as these still carry a level of "official" status. I've generally not included cases where someone used Marvel characters without any license, permission or authorization whatsoever, but there are exceptions to that rule, generally because I find the tale noteworthy or interesting in some capacity - e.g. while unofficial it was done with the involvement or permission of a creator associated with the Marvel character."
As you say, the Turkish Conan strip almost certainly didn't have DC's permission to use Superman; the reason it does warrant inclusion is because they had permission to use Conan, who was licensed to Marvel at the time.
All that said, I suppose I might add a mention of these other appearances, but not full entries. And then pray that doesn't open a floodgate to too many additional appearances.
As for the Mexican newspaper strip for Spider-Man, yes, that might well be worth a mention, and definitely if they had the license. Please tell me more.
