MV Comix #26/1972
MV Comix #26/1972 is one instalment in the pivotal serialisation that made Asterix a German household name: between 1967 and 1977 Egmont Ehapa's biweekly anthology was the sole advance-publication venue for the first 23 Asterix adventures in the German language, predating each collected album release by months or even years. By 1972 the magazine had settled into its mature anthology identity — pairing Franco-Belgian humour strips with DC superhero reprints and newly acquired Spanish material — and each Asterix instalment carried the quiet cultural weight of introducing Goscinny and Uderzo's Gaulish world to a new generation of German readers before the album editions could reach bookshops. Madame Methusalix (the German rendering of the French Madame Agecanonix), Asterix, and Obelix all appear in this issue as part of that ongoing serialised story, reinforcing the village ensemble that remains central to the series' comedy and humanity.
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MV Comix grew out of the Mickyvision magazine that Ehapa had launched in 1962 as a Disney-focused monthly; from 1965 onward the title shifted to Franco-Belgian material, first with Michel Vaillant and Dan Cooper, then — from October 1967 — with Asterix as its anchor. By 1969 DC Comics superhero content (Superman, Batman) joined the mix, and from 1972 Spanish studio material (Recreo Bargada) was added as well, giving the 1972 run of MV Comix its distinctive multi-continental anthology character. Adolf Kabatek, who served as Egmont Ehapa's editorial director from 1972, oversaw this period of the magazine and personally championed the Asterix licence through its formative German years.
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- MV Comix was published by Egmont Ehapa (Stuttgart/Berlin) as a biweekly anthology, running from 1965 (as successor to Mickyvision) through the summer of 1977, for a total of 354 issues in its 'MV' incarnation.
- Asterix ran continuously in MV Comix from issue 21/1967 through issue 13/1977 — all 23 Goscinny/Uderzo adventures serialised as German-language advance instalments before their album publication.
- MV Comix was the primary and exclusive German serialisation platform for new Asterix adventures during this entire decade; after the magazine folded in 1977, Ehapa published Asterix in album-only format.
- Asterix and Obelix were created by writer René Goscinny and artist Albert Uderzo, debuting in the French magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959; Egmont Ehapa began publishing them in Germany from late 1967 in MV Comix.
- Madame Methusalix (French: Madame Agecanonix) — the elegant, unnamed wife of the village elder Methusalix — first appeared in the Asterix series in *Streit um Asterix* (Band 15 / La Zizanie, 1970), which was serialised in MV Comix issues 21/1970 through 5/1971; her appearances in 1972 issues are continuation appearances, not her debut.
- By 1972 MV Comix carried a multi-origin anthology mix: Franco-Belgian strips (including Asterix), DC Comics reprints (Superman, Batman), and newly added Spanish material from the Recreo Bargada Studio.
- The German translations of the Asterix stories published in MV Comix were rendered by Gudrun Penndorf, whose German adaptations became the canonical versions later reprinted in Ehapa's collected albums.
- Adolf Kabatek, Egmont Ehapa's managing director from 1972 onward, was the key editorial figure behind the sustained commitment to serialising Asterix in MV Comix throughout the 1970s.
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