Zigomar is a comic strip character created in Yugoslavia by artist Nikola Navojev and writer Branko Vidić.
has been called one of the most notable titles of the "Golden Age of Serbian comics"
It’s believed that the name ‘Zigomar’ came from the more famous French character of the same name, a hero of pulp fiction novels and films.
Zigomar first appeared in Mikijevo Carstvo (which translates to ‘Mickey’s Empire’), number 28, in Yugoslavia, published on the 28th of May, 1939.
Zigomar is a young man coming from a wealthy American family, who decided to leave the rich life and dedicate himself to fighting crime.
Zigomar wears a mask and a tight costume (including a cape) with a “Z” sign on his belt and a ring with a “Z” sign on it. Zigomar has no superpowers and is followed on his adventures by his loyal sidekick, Chinese boy Chi Yang.
In one of his adventures, in the Himalayas, Zigomar meets the Phantom. The two get into a fight (leaving the other with their ring mark on their face), but soon after they show respect for each other and become friends.
However, at one point, an evil fakir hypnotizes them and turns them against each other. The story continues with new clashes between the two heroes, until Zigomar sets the captured Phantom free.
The Phantom Connection
Cover of the "Zigomar protiv Fantoma" episode
I CANNOT go one second without getting stuck or getting stalked/ATTACKED by stan like a RABID DOG T_T Had my Steel sword aka Katana out to slice its peepnit off ..
Any third person who induces another to violate his contract shall be liable for damages to the other contracting party.
This article contemplates that the third person may be held liable for damages because he has induces a party to the contract to violate the terms thereof.
Case Illustration
Gilchrist
vs.
Cuddy
Trent, J.:
FACTS:
Cuddy was the owner of the film Zigomar. He rented it to Gilchrist for a week for P125.00. A few days to the date of delivery, Cuddy sent the money back to Gilchrist. Cuddy rented the film to Espejo and his partner Zaldarriaga for the amount of P350.00 for the week knowing that it was rented to someone else and accepted it because he was paying about 3 times as much as he had contracted Gilchrist, but they did not know the identity of the other party. Gilchrist filed for injunction against these parties.
ISSUE
WON Espejo and Zaldarriaga should be liable for damages though they do not know the identity of Gilchrist.
RULING
Yes. The parties were liable in an action for damages for the breach of that contract. The mere right to compete could not justify the appellants in intentionally inducing Cuddy to take away the contractual rights. The liability of the appellants arises from unlawful acts and not from contractual obligations as they were under no such ibligation to induce Cuddy.
Can you talk more about Japan's obsession with Arsene Lupin and the slew of Gentleman Thief characters in anime very much directly inspired by him?
Japan's history with Lupin doesn't actually start with Lupin himself, but with a different character named Zigomar. Zigomar is an 1908 French pulp character who was Fantomas's direct predecessor and inspiration, and a fairly popular character for quite a while. He got to cross over with Nick Carter for one of his serials and the name Zigomar was used worldwide for several characters over the decades (even in Brazil). During the start of Japan's film history, movies were largely film variants of scenes from kabuki & noh plays, but in the 1910s, when further experimentation began occuring and foreign exports started becoming more commonplace, one particular trend at the time was ninja films, which for over two decades were functionally the equivalent of superhero films today.
Predating this ninja craze, and possibly even influencing it, the French Zigomar serials were quite popular in Japan, and they would start creating their own Zigomar films, beginning in 1912 with NIHON JIGOMA. These were a smash hit that influenced a lot of filmmakers into incorporating European film techniques, particularly in editing. I imagine the Japanese probably turned Zigomar into less of a murderous villain, because one of the subsequent films is called Great Detective Zigomar, although regardless of how they adapted it, they caused a moral panic when daily newspapers began to attribute crimes to the "immoral" influence" of Zigomar on the young.
And so, police started banning them and they had to create a new film exhibition code was drawn up, proscribing works which "promoted" adultery, crime, cruelty, obscenity, or moral corruption. And we all know by this point that censored works are only made all the more appetizing to those that can't have them, and Zigomar proved there was definitely a market for pulp anti-heroes in Japan. Enter the 1920s.
By this point, Lupin was already one of the biggest of fictional icons, a frequent guest star in international pulp magazines next to the likes of Nick Carter, Sherlock Holmes, Fantomas and Fu Manchu. All across the world, you could already find either people inserting Arsene Lupin into their stories (such as Ogonek's Sherlock stories in Siberia or the James Robertson pulps from Germany) or creating their own spins on Arsene himself (such as China's Lu Ping or Batavia's Si Pitung). And so, in 1923, you had the first Lupin serial made in Japan we have records of: 813 - Rupimono, retitled Hachi Ichi San. The character was renamed Akira Naruse for copyright purposes but everyone knows who it was supposed to be. In the 50s, there was also Nanatsu-no Houseki (1950), Tora no-Kiba (1951) and Kao-no Nai Otoko (1955). All of these films are lost completely, but they show that, in the 50s, there was still an interest in Lupin around Japanese media. And not just in Japanese media.
This probably didn't influence anything much in the history of Japan's relation with Lupin (although considering the cultural exchange between Brazil and Japan runs deep, this very well could have ended up overseas for a Japanese audience to watch), but the first TV series based on Arsene Lupin was actually created in Brazil in 1959. It was called As Aventuras de Arsene Lupin, and much like the Japanese started producing Zigomar films based on a love for the French serials, Brazilians loved the Lupin films so much that, eventually, an original series was created.
It starred comedic legend and circus performer Walter Stuart, who had already starred in a Sherlock pastiche for the network, and whose look was already frequently compared to that of Lupin, even before he was cast in the show. And he spoke French, too. The series was short-lived, and is mainly included here because very few records of it exist, and certainly none written in English. Still, it's also interesting as a much more comedy-based approach to Arsene Lupin, a couple of years before that would hit the world in a big way.
Enter the 60s, and we get to the character most responsible for ensuring the name Lupin would never again stay out of people's minds for long: Lupin the Third. A pretty ingeniously designed character who combined Lupin with James Bond (the obvious guy to rip-off if you're a fictional character in the 60s) and whose quick rise to prominence also led to it being behind several of manga and anime's most enduring properties, several of the biggest names over the decades getting their start either in Lupin III, or starting with Lupin III and ending somewhere else.
You have, of course, Hayao Miyazaki, and the monumental popularity of Castle of Cagliostro (which is still the closest thing to a LeBlanc Lupin story this franchise's ever had). You have Shinichi Watanabe who goes around dressed like Lupin. You have Mamoru Oshii, whose canned Lupin film would eventually result in him re-using the ideas for Patlabor, Angel's Egg and Ghost In The Shell. You have Shinichiro Watanabe who said that the biggest inspiration for Cowboy Bepop came from Lupin III's cast. Takeshi Koike, creator of Redline, currently the animation director for the more recent Lupin films. Lupin III has become this springboard of creativity and talent and variety that has directly and indirectly led to many of the biggest names in pop culture today.
Lupin is the single biggest argument I could possibly make as to why I think taking the pulp heroes to anime and videogames is their best shot at long-term modern vitality, because look at how well that turned out for him. It's been 116 years since Maurice LeBlanc first penned Arsene Lupin, and still the character has a freshness and vitality to him virtually unheard of in properties this long lived.
Not just because of the original stories, which are fantastic and definitely deserve better translations, but because the character's legacy has found a footing the likes of which would be inconceivable back then. Lupin movies, Lupin tv shows, Lupin reprints, Lupin public domain guest appearences. The novels get to stand side by side with the biggest of all literary icons. Persona 5 was explosively popular even by the standards of prior franchise installments. Arsene Lupin is in Smash Bros, something that only Dracula had a snowball's chance in hell of achieving.
As with the original stories, it's not enough for Lupin to win and get away with winning, he also has to rub his victory in everyone's faces, and man do we love to watch that happen.
Zigomar was the best symbol of the short lived time between 1939-1941 when Belgrade was the comics capital of Europe. A wealthy American accompanied by a Chinese boy, Zigomar was an athletic, muscular adventurer in a domino mask. Tragically, after the Axis occupation of Serbia in 1941, all of the character’s creators ( Nikola Navojev and writer Branko Vidić) perished and the brief Serbian comics ended along with most of that generation.
8 issues in 1924. Serial written by Léon Sazie. Format circa 185 x 240 - 32 pages/2columns. Other series devoted to Zigomar existed previously, and others will follow. Rare and expensive stuff nowadays...
I have just unearthed them in one of the galleries of my reserve with a hundred others of the same acabit.
cover art: Henri Armengol
publisher: Joseph Ferenczi & Fils, 9 rue Antoine Chan,tin, Paris 14è
A recuperação de ruas de acesso a postos de saúde, escolas e transporte coletivo é considerada prioridade no planejamento elaborado por técnicos da Secretaria Municipal de Infraestrutura e Serviços Públicos, Sinfra. Medida prevê a recuperação da malha asfáltica e a utilização de pedras em rachão em vias não pavimentadas.
De acordo com o secretário de Infraestrutura e Serviços Públicos, Zigomar Filho, a determinação do prefeito Assis Ramos é viabilizar condições, embora paliativas neste período chuvoso, para facilitar o acesso de veículos e pedestres aos bairros de Imperatriz. “Temos esse planejamento para garantir o acesso às escolas, como é o caso da Rua 5, na Vila Ipiranga, onde temos feito ações paliativas por causa das chuvas”
IMPERATRIZ é um município da unidade federativa Maranhão. Seu território é composto 37% pelo bioma Amazonia e 63% pelo bioma Cerrado. O IDHM de IMPERATRIZ é 0.731. O município não possui Política Municipal de Saneamento Básico e não possui Plano Municipal de Saneamento Básico.
On Final Crisis: Secret Files, Grant Morrison describes Doc Fate as part of the Society of Super-Heroes, and says that amoung it's members is, sometimes, "the mysterious Bat-Man". Obviously, this Bat-Man haven't appeard in Multiversity. But how do you think this pulp version of Batman should be? It thought of him as Kirk Langstrom, the Man-Bat.
It being Kirk Langstrom could work. Maybe Bruce Wayne could exist in this world but he's not really Batman, maybe Batman's agent or secret identity or the source of Langstrom's money. I'm not particularly interested in Man-Bat as a character but the idea of him being this world's Bat-Man, or at least "a" Bat-Man, could be a good idea.
I find most versions of "Batman but he's pulp" to be generally really boring because they largely just go by the painfully standard route of "Batman but his outfit looks shabby and he's got a gun" and it often seems like it just amounts to a Batman that now kills and is less of a character than just an amalgam of pulp cliches (which is what Batman used to be before they created Robin and the iconic villains and the no-kill rule and started fleshing him out as a more unique character).
In fact I'm gonna just go ahead and stipulate that "Pulp" Batman should at least adhere to the main dude's policy of no guns. Whether he's killing or not, or how effectively he can manage himself, is up to debate, but let's get the obvious out of the way. Bill Finger described once that he envisioned Batman as combining traits from Douglas Fairbanks, Sherlock Holmes, The Shadow and Doc Savage, so we're gonna use these as some of the basis to work with.
Personally the best take on a Batman redesign schewing closer to pulp that I've ever seen would be "The Batman Investigations" by Imson on Deviantart, you can read more about it's respective designs there but I'll post it's idea for Batman below
Bruce Wayne was born with high sensitivity to sunlight, keeping him indoors most of the day, and forcing him to wear tinted glasses when not. When his parents were killed by a mugger, the blast from the gunfire damaged his hearing, forcing him to wear hearing aid from an early age.
Bruce had a knack for mechanics, and living off the remaining funds left by his parents, he developed a few surveillance gadgets for police use. While trying to market them for the local police, he was hired by commissioner Gordon as a freelance detective. As his involvement with the force continued, he got the nickname The Batman from his striking appearance.
As a hired gun, his role grew to take on undercover investigations. He could use his equipment to take the cases further than regular detectives could risk, and the police would turn a blind eye to these acts, provided Bruce denied any involvement with the police should he get caught.
His most useful gadget is his mechanic surveillance bird dubbed Robin, used to keep watch on suspects without gathering attention.
This one I think works particularly well for a take on Batman that's more centered around street-level detective work, and I mean actual detective work. A Batman who's strong, but not much of a fighter, and his hearing disability doesn't lend itself to superpowers, it's something he has to work around through allies and gadgets and quick-thinking once he starts getting further into trouble. More of a Sherlockian Batman who contends with the kind of darkness that doesn't come with a status quo to sort itself out.
Now, if we wanna go more along the route of gritty pulp Batman, a more traditional Batman who's actually gonna out there in the night suplexing crime into the sidewalk, what comes to my mind design-wise is something of a cross between Denis Medri's Rockability Batman and Francesco Francavilla's Batman 1972
A Batman who's not exactly wearing a skintight superhero outfit full of gadgets but instead a coat of surprises, who's only really got a mask and goggles to protect his identity and also protect his face. A Batman who's smart and can do detective work, but really he's going out there every night to get the shit kicked out of him until he figures out what he needs to know to solve the case, no police involved. Sort of closer to how Denny Colt or The Moon Man operate, more in the Robin Hood and Zorro molds. This one is also somewhat in line with Golden Age pre-Robin Batman where his main distinguishing feature as a character was how utterly reckless and prone to jumping into a fight he was even by usual comic book/pulp hero standards.
The third option I'm thinking of is to take Batman closer to the superhero he is but still mired in enough pulp ingredients remixed differently to be recognizably different from his ordinary self. So instead I'm thinking to play up respectively the parts of Batman that are The Shadow + Doc Savage, to create Dark Science Batman. This one I think is a better answer as to the question "What would a fusion between The Shadow and Doc Savage look like" than my initial response of a depowered Black Terror, and this Batman would be considerably more inhuman and grandiose in scope than the other two, this would be a Batman who could dominate Justice League meetings by force of personality and create moon bases and contend with dimension-warping supervillains and whatnot.
This one is inspired by a redesign by Arryn Diaz and Dan Schkade's Jack Kirby Batman:
“In a WORLD gone MAD, this lone DETECTO-SCIENTIST must operate OUTSIDE the laws of society in order to defend its FUTURE!! BEWARE — THE BAT-MAN!!!” - Alternate Universe Jack Kirby, 1972
So these are three different directions as to how I think you could do a "Pulp Batman" well, although maybe not necessarily operating by how Earth 20 works. DC already has a billion zillion Batmen as is so I'm sure all these may have already been done at some point in Batman's history.
Of course, realistically speaking if Batman was a long-running and successful pulp hero he could have gone through variations of these depending on the decade, or the country (see: the many global variations of characters attached to the name Fantomas or Zigomar), if not the same narrative arc outright. Pulp heroes are shapeshifters by nature.
Final 31 [2018 Edition] Day 30: Top Stages of 2018
Ranking my stages was so much harder than ranking my musicals because I just see more of them! This is definitely not ranked but just my top 5. The numbers are unrelated... I think...
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5. Lucky Dog
This is BL, of COURSE I’m going to love it! But in actual fact the BL part has a very small part to play. I really love the American/Mafia/Italian setting they have going on, I loved the development and the relationships between all the characters. I am so glad we got a Saien, and a Chrstimas event, so damn fast! If you’ve read my reviews, you’ll know that I feel absolutely in love with Bakshi completely and utterly. I think he is amazing and I desperately need a stage where he and Jan are end game!! PLEASE!! I love the music in this too! And you can tell the cast themselves get on so well! (review 1 and 2)
4. Honoo no Mirage
How could this not be here! This is one of my top stage SERIES so of course the god damn finale is going to make it’s way onto this list. I did, as mentioned in the review, had one major problem with the stage but when it comes down to it, I love this series, I love the story, the performances in this final stage were absolutely phenomenal so it naturally over-rides that problem I had with it (but by no means makes that one problem invalid). (review here - coming soon)
3. KimiSaga
This is was hard! I had to choose between this one and Teito Tantei as my favourite ASSH stage. ASSH consistently produce amazing stages with amazing casts and amazing stories and amazing fighting scenes. I have no been let down by them yet! The reason this one won over Teito is because of several reasons: I prefer the visual look of this one, I prefer the mythical/historical themes of this one, whether intentional or not; I loved the underlying ‘how do we treat an outsider’ question which, as a white foreigner in Japan, really spoke to me personally. Also out of the two I think this is the one I would prefer a sequel too! I need more! (review here)
2. Shakespeare’s R&J
I absolutely blown away by this one! I love how impactful the simple things they did in this play were. I loved the minimal lighting, I loved the acting - seriously the performances!! - and the development and change in their characters, I loved the shocking scenes in, it was gay so yeah gunna be on this list. I am so thankfully I got to see this twice! And also own the DVD. It’s just a solid and an amazingly acted performance. It was great! (review here)
1. Nemurenai Hitsuji
This is another one where I had to choose between this one OR the other Bancho Stage: Saraba Gold Mountain. This one came out on top, again for several reasons: I was so into the story, I loved the mystery, I loved the themes, this one also hit home very hard with it’s themes with the whole: YuuKun’s character breaking down as if it was his father that had died in the story (ugh my heart was completely broken), it was a nice balance of serious and funny, I loved the depth of each and every character and the fact they all had secrets, I loved the setting, the ending scene was such a god damn shocker and such an amazing way to end it! (review here - coming soon)