Barbarella

Jean-Claude Forest’s iconic sci-fi heroine Barbarella made her German-language debut with this single 1966 issue from Schünemann Verlag. Forest, writing and drawing the series, introduced readers to his famously liberated, spacefaring protagonist in a tale that helped define the erotic, psychedelic edge of European comics. Though brief in its initial German run, this issue stands as a key cultural artifact, bringing Forest’s lush, imaginative vision to a new audience and cementing Barbarella’s place in comic history.