Latest news on Galician editions.Below you can find the various translations of Franka books I have. In this case I go for complete series in all the available languages. There are not many translations of this famous Dutch comic, so it's not too hard a job to try and get everything ever published. If you are interested, or if you can help me with new items, please mail to Martin Hooymans. I have pages like this for Asterix and Tintin.
Last update: December 11, 2005. Latest news on Galician editions.
I use the original story numbers (see below). A plus (+) means that I have the book. A minus sign (-) indicates that I know that the edition exists, but ... I am still looking for it.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Catalan 0 - - -
Danish 8 + - - + - - - - + + + + + + - - -
Dutch 17 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
French 5 + + + + +
Galician 0 - - - - -
German 8 + - + - + + - + + + + - - - -
Norwegian 0 - - - - - - -
Spanish 1 - + -
Swedish 7 + + + + + + +
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Am I missing some edition? Please let me know
Danish
Unfortunately I only have a few of the Danish editions. According
to the website of Carlsen they keep track with the Dutch series.
Recently, I ordered a couple through the internet, but I have the
idea that the low numbers are out of print. Dwight R. Decker
from Arizona sent me number 1 and 4 for which I am very
gratefull! Who helps me with the rest?
French
The first three French albums were published by Dupuis. They all
have a different cover from the Dutch version.
The double album Les Dents du Dragon was published by Les
Humanoides Associés. The covers of the two albums together form
a very beautifull picture.
Finnish or Norwegian? Norwegian!
According to Dick Heins and Georg Lint (1989) the
albums are only in 6 different languages of which the Norwegian
edition was not sure; the authors of "Het Geheim van de
Archiefkast" (The Secret of the Filing Cabinet) mention 3 Finnish
editions with titles that do not look very Finnish to me but
rather Norwegian: 6 Monstret I Dimiman, 7 Draktanden, 8
Lovsfarlig Cirkus. Both Anders Karlsson and Markku
Jaaskelainen assured me that there is no Finnish edition. If
you know of any Finnish (which is unlikely) or Norwegian
edition (which is likely) or any other not mentioned in this
list, please let me know!
(01-05-1999) Øystein Gabrielsen wrote me: I am a Norwegian fan of Franka, and I have all the norwegian editions (I think). This is all the 6 first albums. The first is published as album #1 in the Franka series, and the next five is published in a hardcover book series from "Tegneserie-bokklubben" (= the comic book club). The four first of these books are numbered, and contains two comic stories, i.e. one Franka and one other story. I am now at my job computer, and do not have the books beside me, but if further informations is wanted, (norwegian title, when published, publisher, number of the "Tegneserie-bokklubben" books, etc.) do not hesitate to contact me for these details.
(02-04-2001) I wrote: But ... still I have not seen any of these ... ! Unfortunately, Øystein has not replied to any of my messages. For a collector this is the real thing! I hope Øystein will come back to me one day ...
(13-11-2000) Dick Heins (himself!) wrote me an e-mail message: "There never were any Finnish editions. It was a printer’s error in the "Archiefkast". My apologies for that."
(08-03-2002) Ole Endre Bergerud from Norway seemed to have copies of two books for sale. Due to destroyed e-mail messages our exchange did not succeed, which is very pityfull. He mentioned "UHYRET FRA SUMPENE" (Monster van het Moeras) and "CIRCUS SANTEKRAAM".
(16-10-2003) Trond Michelsen wrote me: "Now, I don't know much about the Franka cartoons at all, but I used to subscribe to the Norwegian tegnseriebokklubben (cartoon book of the month), and I noticed that among the books I have, there are three Franka cartoons. Every book in tegnseriebokklubben is a hardcover book with two regular cartoon albums." And then he helps us out with the information on the books he has: Tegneseriebokklubben #45 is Franka 2 and is titled Mesterverket in Norwegian (Het meesterwerk), #61 is Franka 3 Spøkelsesskipet (De terugkeer van de Noorderzon) and #68 contains Franka 4 Lastebåtens hevn (De wraak van het vrachtschip). (to be continued)
Spanish
Shortly after the publication of "Het Geheim van de
Archiefkast" the first Spanish edition appeared. This
series starts with "Los dientes del dragón" (De tanden
van de draak, originally number 7) as number 1, followed by
"La caída del dragón" (De ondergang van de
donderdraak) as number 2, which I have. Who
helps me to get "Los dientes del dragón"?
(20-08-2004) José Aragón wrote me that he suspects there is a Spanish version of "Moordende Concurrentie" too, since he has a copy in Catalan (see below).
Catalan
José Aragón notified me that he had three Catalan
editions. He described them as:
1.- "Les dents del drac", that you would know as
"De tanden van de draak". According to your page, this
was the same first number for the Spanish edition.
2.- "La caiguda del drac", which is "De ondergang
van de donderdraak". According to your page, this was the
second numkber of the Spanish edition, with the following title:
"La caída del dragón"
3.- "Competència criminal". "Moordende
concurrentie".
And since I do not posses one of them, you are all kindly invited to help me to get one!
Galician
Gaspar Rey sent me an e-mail telling me there
also was a Galician version. To his knowledge there were 5 books
translated. they were issued by Xeira between 1990-1992. The
numbers of the Xeira editions correspond with the Dutch versions
as follows:
1.- (7)
2.- (8)
3.- (9)
4.- (3)
5.- (4)
Again, you are all kindly invited to get me a copy!
German
First, I was not sure if all the books were translated
into German. The aforementioned authors report of an early
series that covers story 2 till 8. That was with the editor
Carlsen. Uwe Trenkner tells us on his page that Carlsen stopped in
1991 and that Epsilon picked it up with album number 10. I
wondered what happened with 1, 9 and 11-15.
(06-10-1998) Uli Wieneke from Bavaria (Germany) helps us out: Carlsen started the series with no. 2 (Das Meisterwerk / Het meesterwerk). No 1 (Het Misdaadmuseum) was not published until now. So "Het meesterwerk" is the german no 1. Carlsen published the series up to no 9 (Moordende concurrentie, in Germany Nr.8) and then stopped. In 1996 (or 1997) Epsilon published Gangsterfilm (same title in German) as no 10 (same number as the original!). So, there is no german no 9. Since number 10 Epsilon keeps track with the Dutch edition.
(20-10-2000) Due to the success of the series in Germany Epsilon has decided to publish all the old books as well, in the correct numbering. So in October we can expect no1 "Das Kriminalmuseum", which was never published in German before. And from the start of 2001 all the books that were released by Carlsen, but instead of 1-8 they will be numbered 2-9 as in the Dutch editions.
Swedish
(09-09-1999) The Swedish series stops quite suddenly after
number 7, right in the middle of the story that was spread out
over two books. The first part of the story was published as
"Draktanden" (number 7 in the Franka-series and also
numbered 23 in the "Orn-serien"). But then the
publisher stopped due to lack of interest in Sweden. In other
words, there are not enough fans to keep the business running.
Earlier, Carlsen as the first editor of the books number 1-5 gave
up. Semic Press took the series over, started with "Monstret
i dimman" (number 8 in the "Orn-serien"), then
published the abovementioned "Draktanden" and then
stopped. Nobody has ever picked the series up after that. For our
Swedish fans this really is a pity ...
English
No ... there is no English edition ... up to now ...
Thanks
I want to thank:
Dwight R. Decker from Arizona for number 1 and 4 of the Danish
edition (please contact me since I lost your e-mail address!)
Anders Karlsson for the complete Swedish series and
the unexpected Spanish edition and
Jan Ferwerda for the 3 French Dupuis-albums, that
came with the unbelievable collection that I now have and that I
named after him: The Jan Ferwerda Collection.
The album numbers in this table refer to album numbers in the Dutch album sequence:
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