Club Anni Trenta
Club Anni Trenta ("Club of the Thirties") was an Italian publishing company devoted to reprint classical comics.
History
Ernesto Traverso and Silvano Scotto met in 1967. Traverso had a desire to publish series of closed-circuit albums in editions of 120 or 140 copies to comics enthusiasts, to fill gaps left by traditional publishers. Scotto dealed with exchange and sale of antique comics, and had valuable material at his disposal.
Their first "editorial" experiment was carried out under the brand name "Comics World" with their friends Bono and Bernazzali, who had founded the "Club della Pineta" in Pegli a few months earlier. This first Albi grandi avventure issue (Gli uomini di guttaperca) released in March 1968 consisted of daily strips from May to july 1935 with "Inspector Wade" by Lyman Anderson.
After this experiment Traverso and Scotto officially founded Club Anni Trenta and printing began in 1969. During the following three years they produced 22 albums (included the first Wade issue) plus an English edition of a Jungle Jim (L'affare Stacet) issue. In addition, there is also a combined album consisting of the four "G. Men" issues they released.
Albi grandi avventure
The first edition of this series were available by subscription orders and printed in few copies. The covers were in black and white.
Amongst their "Golden age reprinting", always edited with good cares and with great respect for the original Italian publications – such as the old ones from Nerbini and other Italian editors – were characters like "L'Uomo Mascherato"," Rip Kirby" "Secret Agent X-9", "Johnny Hazard", "Mandrake the Magician" "Brick Bradford", "Flash Gordon", "Lil' Abner", "Blondie", "Tillie the Toiler".
In 1977, the two original publishers finally ended their collaboration. Silvano Scotto still working with the label until 1998 "Club Anni Trenta" when a second club was created apart under the name of "Nuovo Club Anni Trenta" ("New Club of the Thirties") but it ceased activities after one year, this last one having also released Phantom stories.
It is worthy to notice that a book of 268 pages, entitled "Un’avventura Lunga Trent’Anni – 1968 1998" ("An 30 years adventure"), written by Gabriella Càlisto, wife of Silvano Scotto, was published in 1997 by the Club Anni Trenta Editions to trace the whole history of the Club.
Mandrake - Comics Stars in the World, and other issues by (Nuovo) Club Anni Trenta
| US title | Italian title (s) | Comics Stars in the World | (Nuova) Club Anni Trenta | Date | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Cobra | "Mandrake l’uomo del mistero" and "Mandrake contro il Cobra" | #1 and #2 | #1 and #2 | June, 1976 | |
| The Hawk (Mandrake Meets Narda) |
"Il mistero della casa da giuoco" | #3 | #3 | June, 1976 | |
| The Monster of Tanov Pass | "Il mostro di Passo Tanov" | #4 | #4 | June, 1976 | |
| Saki, the Clay Camel | "Il cammello d'argilla" and "La cattura di Saki" | #29 and #30 | #5 and #6 | May, 1977 | |
| The Werewolf | "Il lupo mannaro" and "L'orrore del circo" | #31 and#32 | #7 and #8 | May / June, 1977 | |
| The Return of the Clay Camel | "L'enigmatico sir Oswald" and "Mandrake contro Saki" | #33 and #34 | #9 and #10 | ? | |
| The Slave Traders of Tygandi | "La mummia vivente" and "La disfatta dei beduini" | #35 and #36 | #11 and #12 | June, 1977 | |
| Mandrake in the Lost World | "Un mondo sconosciuto" and "Il ritorno di Molly Brunswick" | not printed | #13 and #14 | ||
| In the Cobra's Grip | "Nelle spire del Cobra" and "La fine del Cobra" | #26 and #27 | #15 and #16 | April, 1977 | |
| Mandrake in America | "Mandrake in America" and "Falco cavallo da corsa" | not printed | #17 and #18 | ||
| Mandrake in Hollywood and Sonny the Child Movie Star |
"Mandrake a Hollywood" | #7 | #19 | September, 1976 | |
| Mandrake and the Haunted House | "La casa degli spettri" | #8 | #20 | September, 1976 | |
| Blozz the Champion | "Il mago dello sport" | #24 | #21 | 1976 (1978 ?) | |
| Mandrake in Love | "Il castello di Teiba : Mandrake in love" | #25 | #22 | 1976 (1978 ?) | |
| Visitors from Space | "La sfera marziana" | #28 | #23 | April, 1977 | |
| The Deep South | "Il fantasma del pirata" | #21 | #24 | January, 1976 (1978) | |
| Mandrake in Cockaigne | "Matrimonio a Cockaigne" and "La sposa rapita"" | #22 and #23 | #25 and #26 | January, 1976 and (1978) | |
| Mandrake in North Africa | "Besa lo stregone" and "Re Lothar contro Besa" | #16 and #17 | #27 and #28 | December, 1977 (1978) | |
| The Mountain Bandits | "I brigati degli altipiani" | #20 | #29 | January, 1976 | |
| The Museum Mystery | "l misteri del museo" | not printed | #30 | 11 | |
| The Octopus Ring | "La cattura della banda", "Il covo delle spie", "La piovra" and "La sconlitta della piovra" | not printed | #31, #32, #33 and #34 | ||
| Dr Griff's Invention | "L'invenzione del dottor Griff" | #5 | #35 | June, 1976 11 | |
| The Mystery of the Striped Orchid | "L'orchidea del delitto" | #6 | #36 | June, 1976 11 | |
| The Great Grando | "Il superbo Grando" and "Lotta senza tregua" | #18 and #19 | #37 and #38 | December, 1977 (1978) | |
| Lothar the Champ | "I pirati del ring", "I gangsters di nails" and "Lothar il campione" | #9, #10 and #11 | #39, #40 and #41 | September and October, 1976 | |
| The Rumor Factory | "La villa dei misteri" | not printed | #42 | ||
| Baron Kord | "L'isola degli uomini spenti" and "La cattura del barone Kord" | not printed | #43 and #44 | ||
| The Witch of Kaloon | "La strega di Kaloon" and "l due volti del mistero" | not printed | #45 and #46 | ||
| The Earthshaker | "Il titano delle sette dune" | #12 | #47 | October, 1976 | |
| The Dome | "L'infallibile cupola" | #13 | #48 | November, 1976 | |
| Doctor Congo | "Il dottor Congo" | #14 | #49 | November, 1976 | |
| The Mirror People | "Il popolo degli specchi" | #15 | #50 | November, 1976 | |
| The Ice Lady | "La donna di ghiaccio" | not printed | #51 | ||
| The Old Ones | "Nell'età della pietra" | not printed | #52 | ||
| The Mysterious Prince | "Il principe misterioso" | not printed | #53 | ||
| The Sleeping Beauty | "La bella addormentata" | not printed | #54 | ||
| Pleasant Valley | "Locuste a vallegaia" | not printed | #55 | ||
| Medusa | "La maschera d'argento" | not printed | #56 | ||
| The Jinx | "Lo stadio stregato" | not printed | #57 | ||
| Felina | "La contessa misteriosa" | not printed | #58 |
