CREATOR

Name: Semic Press (subsidiary of the worldwide Egmont Group).
Personal dates: Founded in Sweden in 1950 as a comic book subdivision of the publishing company Bonnier AB and has since then changed name several times (the most well known older name is probably Serieförlaget). Sold to Egmont in 1997.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Semic in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation's name is a contraction of Series and Comics. The Semic pages in this site contain  examples from the Swedish and the Norwegian main branches.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1976*. Stopped in 1979 after 44 issues, but continued from 1982 to 1984 (additional 39 issues). In-between the series had a separate run titled Apache.

This Swedish series consists of diverse independent stories from the Wild West. Some of the recurring characters are Ben Hogan, El Diablo, and Jonah Hex.

* The first Swedish issues came from the American series titled Tomahawk primarily featuring the Wild West frontiersman Tom Hawk. The series ran from 1951 to 1969 under two different publishers.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTERS

None.

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues).

#9 - 1976
#3 - 1977
#11 - 1977

#8 - 1978
#8 - 1979
#12 - 1979

 

 

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