ZEMBLA COMICS IN TURKEY

Inside-cover of no. of first weekly series and covers of several issues from the same series, all with art by 'Cemal' (famous illustrator Cemal Dündar), except the last one which is by 'Yücel' (Yücel Köksal).

Zembla was initially introduced to Turkey in 3 Roman comics magazine published by Ceylan Yayınları in 1966. In 1970, it began to be published by Sümer Yayınevi, directed and later owned by İlhami Alpagut, as a weekly comics under its own title. A monthly 'volume' series was started in 1973. A new monthly series, promoting adventures 'never before published in Turkey' began in 1977. Another weekly series was published during the 1980s (For the record, in addition to these, another series also has been published, apparently sometime after the start of the monthly series but definitely before the weekly series of the 1980s). Zembla continued to be published in Turkey until the early 1990s, by Ertuğrul Ürer's Atılım Yayınları from 1985 onwards.

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