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The French-speaking counterparts of the four volumes are Tommy Tuller, according to the Depot Légal, published in January 1948. A competition form from the Stationery-Bookstore department of the SARMA warehouses states that the volumes will be offered for sale at the end of October 1951, but that may also go for a leftover lot. Just like the French-language parts, the Dutch-language parts were printed by the Algemene Drukkerij and Rotogravure N.V. ASTRA in Antwerp, hence called “Astra editions”. Copyright belongs to “Studio Guy” (Brussels). Studio Guy's namesake Guy Depierre published the comic magazine "Illustrated Avonturen" (GA) / Aventures Illustrées from ca.1941 / 42 and worked with a studio in which, among others, Marcel Moniquet (from 1941) and Fernand Cheneval (from 1942), the founder of the famous comic magazine "Héroic-Albums". Maurice Tillieux has also worked for the studio. J.M. Charlier and Victor Hubinon have published Joe la Tornade under the pseudonym Charvic for Studio Guy (via the magazine Bimbo, the successor of G.A). Fred Funcken, employed by Studio Guy since 1940, also contributed various contributions to the comic magazine, including the Tommy Tuller series; the ace of the Far-West under the pen name Dick John's. Under this name, in principle, any studio employee could sign the Tommy Tuller series, including Guy Depierre himself. Depierre regularly transferred original drawings from his employees. Unnecessary because he already held all rights anyway. Tommy Tuller was pre-published in "Illustrated Adventures / Bimbo" and includes this magazine so Fred Funcken asked for comic strips from 1942. At the end of 1943, Funcken was deported to Nazi Germany, after which his series were taken over by Moniquet, Tillieux and Cheneval. When he returned at the end of 1944, only Tommy Tuller remained. It is therefore generally accepted that Funcken was responsible for the lion's share of Tommy Tuller's drawings, including those in the four hard-copy volumes that were published. The albums are all very poorly printed and bound, fall out of the cover very quickly and the printed matter is unfortunately of a very poor Rotogravure quality. Copies of all four volumes are known with a small Premium voucher pasted on the last page (8 x 4.4 cm), specially made for the volume concerned and numbered identically. When four receipts are handed in, the Stationery-Bookstore department of the SARMA warehouses hands over a beautiful “Badge” Tommy Tuller. It is unknown what this so-called license plate looks like. In part four a copy was found of a two-sided printed (black / white) sheet with a coloring plate for. the “Big Tommy Tuller Free Prize Camp”. Provided by the Stationery-Bookstore department of the SARMA warehouses in 1951. According to this sheet, it must also have been in parts 1, 2 and 3.
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