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Title: X-MAN TJERGAM FANTASI Vols. 1 and 2 * Indonesian Batman / Spider-Man Digests
Place Published: Indonesia
Publisher:Maranatha
Date Published: December, 1972-January 1973
Description:

Vol. 1: Good (2.0). Holes to spine from removed extra staples, creases to spine area, moderate rumpling to covers from handling, ¾" piece of tape to back cover, one signature (or unitary sheaf of pages) loose, reseller notes in ink and ownership signature in marker to margins of 1st page, marginal rubberstamps to a few pages. Cream to light tan pages. Vol. 2: VG+ (4.5). Touch of spine stress, reading creases to spine area, corner creases, residue to back cover (from sun-melted rubber band?), one page has corner chip. Cream pages.

Digest-sized squarebound Indonesian comics, color covers and black & white interiors, Indonesian text. Cover art by Kus Bram. 5x7". No copies of either volume listed in the CGC Census. Scarce.

Batman and Spider-Man grace the identical covers of these wacky mags, but Spidey's just a bait-n'-switch tactic and doesn't appear within these pages at all. Instead, the X-Men's Angel tussles with redrawn versions of Wally Wood's Ani-Men from the pages of Daredevil #10. Bruce Wayne appears in vol. 1 as an idle playboy, but doesn't mask-up as Batman 'til vol. 2. It's fun to read the Indonesian interjections used for yelps of pain ("Hek!," "M-AGH!," "Kragh!") while contemplating the ease with which Yankee superheroes crossed international boundaries (and legal niceties) to become part of the warp and woof of Southeast Asian popular culture.