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The Revenge of Dr Lefun

 Well I found an old CD with art and on it was this strip which features Black Tower's own Dr Lefun. The story is written and pencilled by Hooper and inked and lettered by Ben R. Dilworth.

Originally this was for Bastei Verlag and one of its horror comics and you can tell how old this is as Deutsch Marks are mentioned  rather than Euro!

Anyway...enjoy.

(c)2025 BTCG T. Hooper/BR Dilworth

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Fond Memories: Arsat Der Magier von Venedig

 

According to one source Arsat was living in ancient Egypt as a judge and a priest, but when his body was disturbed in modern times he wakes up to a second life, in which he fights evil uses a special crystal and a magic serpent wand.

The full title of the series is Arsat Der Dämonenjäger. -Arsat The Demon Hunter. The series started in 2001 and ended in 2002 after 12 issues. Apparently some of the Spuk Geschicten stories were reprinted in this series (never seen the issues so cannot confirm that).

As noted some of the stories were first published in Spuk Geschichten from 1978 to 1995 (492 issues), in which they were titled Arsat Der Magier von Venedig -Arsat the Magician from Venice (Venedig was the old name of Venice).

It was in this series that I first read of Arsat's adventures.

Jesus Pena, a Spanish artist (2nd June, 1941- 2nd May 2005) drew most of the stories I read (no writer was credited) and Pena worked under a number of names -Suso, Pena, Jesús de la Peña,  Santiago Rego and, of course, Jesus Pena Antonio Pérez.

Other artists were Antonio Vila and Vicence Farres Sensarrich.  

Jesus Pena

Sadly, as my home used to be an "open house" a number of my Spuk Geschichten (Spooky Stosries) and Gespenster Geschichten (Ghost Stories) were stolen as was a paperback of Esteban Maroto's Werewolf series.

Arsat was set in what appears to have been the 17th/'18th century not in modern times.  He was accompanied on his adventures by a youthful red haired assistant Gino and the beautiful Carmilla.

In Spuk 263 the story Die Brucke zur Damonenwelt (The Bridge to Demon World) they face a half demon -half machine monster.

I now have only Spuk Geschichten 263 and it is treasured.  The character did inspire, as I have noted before, Black Tower's Gipsy sorcerer Tarot.  I did write three scripts for Arsat but like D-Gruppe, when Egmont bought out Bastei Verlag (the publisher) all of that was lost somewhere (likely shredded).

Someone asked...Task Force Europe

 The following is a re-post from a few years back and the reason to re-post is because someone asked if I had only ever created a German team of heroes?  Nope. Read on!

  There is always a little bit extra when it comes to Black Tower projects here and so why not the odd exclusive peek at "What should have been"?

I went through a box yesterday and found three of the project submission packs that I would have touted around to publishers back in the last century (it is SO weird writing that!). I could not remember the date of the project as a lot of things I burnt a couple years back, however, a flip sheet was attached and reads:

"This series was first produced in 1987 for a European publication in Germany (Bastei). the idea is a simple one; super hero action with a quirky (NOT comical) feel to it. Each story would feature characters from different countries of West, Central and Eastern europe  -an EU of super heroes!

"Stories would move around European cities from the UK to Finland, France amnd so on.

"The first story written (six scripts fully written) and pencilled by Terry Hooper was inked by John Schiltz back in 1990 and can be updated into the 48pp album format either B&W or colour"

From pencilled notes this was something that Gil Page at Fleetway was interested in as it could fit in a lot of the old adventure characters the company had and it could also be sold to other European publishers as per past projects. Sadly, the board room said "No!" very loudly and I think Gil knew the company was going to swerve away from what it used to be.

The submission pack I found mentioned the Big Balloon Bv which was a company based in the Netherlands. I have no idea what happened after the initial fax, phone call and submission.

As far as I recall these were faxed pages that I immediately photocopied on my Canon FC220 (before its demise!).

Here you go -Task Force Europe initial story.

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