Battleaxe Press
lished in South Africa – I enjoyed the old Mimosa
reprints tremendously – as they were the some of the
first Golden and Silver Age reprints I read as a
youngster. My fellow collectors in the 1980s much
preferred original American comic books, as opposed to the South African reprints.
Unlimited Comics
Battleaxe Batman # 1 and Superman # 3
Meteor Press
The Amazing Spider-Man # 1 and 5
Unlimited Comics were the next Marvel reprints in
1983. Short runs of Marvel Comics’ Amazing SpiderMan, Spider-Woman and Incredible Hulk were
reprinted.
Prime #1
Spiderman #2
Meteor Press subsequently got the license for
Marvel Comics and Malibu Comics reprints, also in
1995. Each series ran up to 12 issues.
Americom Batman # 1 and Spider-Man # 1
(Afrikaans language edition)
Americom (AC) Comics produced reprints of Marvel
and DC Comics in 1984. These were poor-quality reproductions – and despite producing comic books in
4 different South African languages – each series
only ran one issue!
Battleaxe Press responded to the worldwide 1990s
Comics boom, by producing reprints of DC Comics,
Image and 2000AD titles. Printed in 1995-1996, each
series ran up to 10 issues.
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