CREATOR

Name: Bastei Verlag (German comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in Germany in 1953 by Gustav Heinrich Lübbe (1918-1995). Ongoing.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Bastei in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The name Bastei is a German word for Bastion. The corporation's main line is the publishing of colourful novels.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1972. Stopped in 1975 after 24 issues.

The stories mostly take place in ancient Rome and feature the small and industrious Jupiter, who works with horses. He is also invincible thanks to a special belt he once obtained from the war God Mars. As a sidekick he has the big and strong Cassius, who is a carver of wooden clubs.

Overall the series is somewhat remindful of Asterix.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTERS


Jupiter, Cassius

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues)

#1 - 1972
#4 - 1972
#9 - 197

#15 - 197
#19 - 197
#24 - 1975

 

 

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