Censoring the Man-Monster?
Original American cover
Interestingly there was still some censorship prevalent at the time – notice how Man-Monster is redrawn from
the original cover of Marvel Comics’ The Mighty Thor # 231 for Supercomix The Mighty Thor # 8
Pop Star poster inserts....
from these comics – they show photos of children
from all ethnic groups winning the prizes – which
suggest that Supercomix were read by all children in
South Africa at the time – transcending the political
barriers of the era.
I started reading comic books around 1980-1981.
At the time Supercomix were plentiful and easily
available – so I read a wide variety of them, until I
discovered that DC Comics’ Batman was my
favourite. I traded all my Supercomix for Batman
Comic Books – and didn’t buy another Supercomix
for almost 30 years! From 1964 to 1995 – only one
Batman reprint (see Americom below) was pub-
Pop-Star posters featuring Leigh McCloskey and
local South African Band “Dog Detachment”
Supercomix were published from 1976 until 1984.
This was a time in South Africa’s Apartheid era,
where people were divided along racial lines. Looking back at the Competition Prize Winners pages
Page 6
There are 15 known foreign variants of
Vampi’s classic Vampirella #1 and 7
known domestic versions!