Saturday, March 24, 2018

Retro Foreign

Indonesian Star Wars: Manusia Lumpur

The lead story in this digest-sized Indonesian comic is titled Manusia Lumpur (Lanjutan Dari "Lumpur Galaxy") or Human Sludge (Continued From "The Mud Of the Galaxy").  It is the same story that is the backup story in Tarzan: Elang Maut.  The story is dated 15-10-1980.  There are two backup stories: Grimm: Istana Mutiara (Little Elves) or Grimm: The Place of Pearls (Little Elves) dated 25-Apr-1975 and H.C. Andersen: Terse Sat Dolly or H.C. Andersen: Performance Sat Dolly dated 29-9-1980.  It looks like the second backup story is a continuation of the first backup story.

Star Wars: Manusia Lumpur a - Yayasan Karya Bhakti Bandung, Indonesia (1980s)
original Star Wars story
The spaceman and alien appear to be battling over a structure that looks a bit like the Death Star.  Apparently that is enough of a link to use the Star Wars title.

There is a pattern emerging with these digest-sized comics; the Star Wars story is the lead in one comic with a Star Wars cover and the same story is a backup for another comic with a different cover.  If you look at how the comics are assembled, each story look like they are printed to be self-contained and the different stories are married when they are placed inside the cover.  It is possible the backup story in Tarzan: Elang Maut is the same printing as the lead story in this comic.

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