Suplemento Juvenil

Suplemento Juvenil
First issue
Country/language:	Brazil / Portuguese
Publishing company:	Adolfo Aizen
Publishing years:	1934-1945
Issues:	1654
Format:	28 x 37 cm

Suplemento Juvenil (released initially as Suplemento Infantil) was released in 1934 by Adolfo Aizen.

It was the first publication in Brazil dedicated to comic heroes and famous characters from US newspaper strips as; "Mandrake the Magician", "Flash Gordon", "Tarzan", as well as "Donald Duck" and several others. Besides the comic it had various texts and historical tales for children. Its success was immediate and had wide circulation for that time. With about 200 thousand copies it led the market for quite some time until the arrival of its biggest competitor, O Globo Juvenil by Roberto Marinho.

History

The journalist Adolfo Aizen worked with three publications: "O Malho", "O Tico Tico" (the first Brazilian comic book) and for the newspaper "O Globo". In 1933 he was invited by the "Comitê de Imprensa do Touring Club do Brasil" to US. In New York he visited the "Daily Mirror" and looked at their newspaper strips and Sunday supplements, with art by the comic artists Alex Raymond, Milton Caniff and Bob Ripley.

When returning to Brazil, Aizen tried to convince his boss at the "O Globo" to publish something similar. They did not like the idea and Aizen decided to try the newspaper "A Nação".

On the 14th of March 1934 "Suplemento Infantil" was released in "A Nação" as a children supplement magazine. With the success the magazine gets independence and changes its name from #15 to "Suplemento Juvenil", now edited by Aizen and published by "Grande Consórcio de Suplementos Nacionais". First page of issue 99 was an announcement for the new strip in "Suplemento Juvenil", Mandrake. And in issue 101 ("Edição de Três Estrelas" - the Saturday issue) of 10 August 1935 one could read two pages of the Mandrake story "Sorcin, O Sábio Louco". Two years later an album-book was published, a full story in color; "Viagem ao País de Savessá".

"Suplemento Juvenil" was published as a newspaper in tabloid format (28x37 cm), had 16 pages except in special editions as of September 7th and Christmas with 100 or 50 pages. During the period 1934 to 1945, 1654 issues was released. Adolfo Aizen then launched the publisher "Editora Brasil-América Ltda", known as EBAL.

Mandrake stories in Suplemento Juvenil

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Title	Title US	issues	note
!Sorcin, O Sábio Louco!	The Monster of Tanov Pass	1935: #101, #104, #107, #110, #113, #116, #119.	Beginning in issue # 101 and ending in issue # 119(published in 1935).
Mandrake na Arábia	Saki, the Clay Camel	#122, #125, #128, #131, #134, #137, #140, #143, #146, #149, #152, #155, ?, #159, ...(12 issues)..., #179, #180, #183, #186, ....several issues (exact number unknown)....	Beginning in # 122, last issue unknown (published in 1935-1936).
Mandrake X Lobisomem	The Werewolf	#210, #213, ....several issues (exact number unknown)...., #236, #239, #242	Beginning in #210, ending unknown, 242 ? (published in 1936).
A Volta de Saki	The Return of the Clay Camel	#245, #246, #248, #249, #251, #252, #254, #255, #257, ...?..., #264, #266, #267, #269, ...?..., #276, ...?..., #293, ...?..., #299, ...?...	Beginning in #245, last issue unknown (published in 1936).
Mandrake entre as Múmias	The Slave Traders of Tygandi	#?, ?, #313, ?, #316, ?, ?, ?, #322, ?, #325,  ?, #328, #330, ?, ?, #334, ?, #337, ?, #340, #342, #343,  ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, #352,  ?, ?, ?, #358, ?, ?, ?, #364	First and last issues / Whole story in 38 issues published in 1936 and 1937.
Mandrake na Pré-História	Mandrake in the Lost World	#367, ?, #370, ?, #373, ....??? (several)...., #399, ....??? (several)....,#405, #406, ....??? (several ?)...	Beginning in #367, last issue unknown (published in 1937).
A Pedra Mágica	In the Cobra's Grip	#....??? (several)...., #427, ...., #429, ....??? (several)...., #442, ....??? (several ?)...., #470, ....??? (several ?)....	First and last issues unknown (published in 1937).
Mandrake na América	Mandrake in America	....??? (several)...., ....??? (several)...., #499, ....??? (several)..., #526, ....??? (several)...., #540, ....??? (several)....	First and last issues unknown (published in 1938).
?	Mandrake in Hollywood
?	Sonny the Child Movie Star
A Casa Mal Assombrada	Mandrake and the Haunted House	#604, ....??? (several)....	Beginning in # 604, ending unknown (published in 1938).
no title	City of Gold	#751, #754, #757, #760, #763, #766, #769, #772, #775, #778	Incomplete / Beginning in # 751, ending in # 778 (published in 1939).

Mandrake Covers

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  Suplemento Juvenil #99

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  Suplemento Juvenil #342

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  Suplemento Juvenil #361

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  Suplemento Juvenil #508

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  Suplemento Juvenil #604

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  Suplemento Juvenil #662

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  Suplemento Juvenil #665

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  Suplemento Juvenil #670

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  Suplemento Juvenil #673

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  Suplemento Juvenil #683

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  Suplemento Juvenil #742

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  issue number unknown

Special issues

Suplemento Juvenil - Edição Especial de Fim de Mês

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  Suplemento Juvenil
  Mandrake no Circo

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  Suplemento Juvenil
  Mandrake Entre as Múmias

Suplemento Juvenil - Ediçáo Especial

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  Suplemento Juvenil
  Ediçáo Especial
  No País dos Homens Pequeninos

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  Suplemento Juvenil
  Ediçáo Especial
  Viagens no Paiz de Savessá

Various Views

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  Back cover of the issue Edição do Suplemento Juvenil "Flash Gordon no Planeta Mongo" (February 1936)

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  Back cover of issue #237 (June 20,1936): ad "album de Mandrake" for story "No País dos Homens Pequeninos" ("Land of the Little People") / unidentified material ?

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  1937 ad for a radio adaptation of the story "Mandrake na Pré-História" published in Suplemento Juvenil (extract from "Mirim" issue 28)

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  Article "The classic is sixty years old" (Tribuna da Imprensa, 1994)

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  Book "Suplemento Juvenil - 90 anos" (2024).