I never cease to be amazed at how different comic books can be outside of the USA! But this German edition of THE PINK PANTHER (Der Rosarote Panther #65), takes the Bavarian Chocolate Cake!
Mighty Mouse AND The Pink Panther??! ...And for 100 Seiten... er, pages?
Golly, has The Commissioner ever looked so happy when in the presence of The Inspector?
I guess he figures that, however badly The Inspector messes up, Mighty Mouse will be there to save the day!
Either that or, after so many years of The Inspector's incompetence, The Commissioner has finally gone batty!
2 comments:
As another DePatie-Freleng character would say, "Very interesting..." I can only assume this publisher had the rights to publish both DePatie-Freleng and Terrytoons stories? Even if this was the case, I don't think I've ever seen characters owned by different entities mixed together in the same volume, excepting some fairly recent crossovers such as Batman and the Green Hornet.
Sergio:
As you know, things like Batman/Green Hornet are done with the cooperation of the two IP owners – or, at the very least, their respective publishers. I can’t imagine such a thing having been done in this case!
The publisher *would* have to have had separate licenses from DePatie-Freleng and Terrytoons, but I’d be very surprised if those licenses explicitly allowed their respective properties to be published together like one of those “Catch-All Cartoon Shows” that proliferated on local TV during the ‘70s and ‘80s, which were often titled something like “Bugs Bunny and Friends” or “Popeye and Friends” with the “Friends” usually being a product of a different studio entirely.
Of course, that sort of thing occurring in comics could be more common in Germany, for all I know. Maybe both properties are handled by the same agency/corporate entity for German publication? Anything’s possible in that wild and wacky world of licensing!
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