• Adaption
  • Comic Books
  • Spada vs King Comics
  • Dailies English text
  • Dailies Reconstruction
  • Dailies Reformatted
  • Sundays Logo
  • Translation
• Censorship
  • Cover
  • Picture
  • Political
  • Sexual
• Copy
  • Flash Gordon
  • Reuse of Panel
  • Fred Fredericks Sweeping
  • Noble Art of Sweeping
• Did You Know
  • Cameos
  • Leon Mandrake
  • Narda's Hair
  • Narda's Hat
  • Smoking
  • The Name Aleena
  • The Name Cockaigne
  • The Name Harrison University
  • The Name Mandrake
  • The Name Narda
  • The Name Xanadu
  • The X-mas Strips

Dressing Barbara - Sexual Censorship 1

Original

in Italy

Some years ago (in the mid 1970s) an American student of comics, Enrique Zeiger, help Bill Blackbeard (SFACA) to restore Mandrake's first adventure.

In this work he intended to take the handwritten text from the american microfilms and glue them into the balloons on the Italian newspaper version.

But when he compare them he discover an amazing "sexual" censorship. In Italy someone have dress Barbara in a more decent dress for the night!