Blue Cavern

Hi guys,

I just wanted to let you know the annual "Free Comic Day" takes place tomorrow. I will pick my smurf comic (the prequel of "The Smurfs and the Magic Flute") at our local comic store, which is only 5 mins away from our flat. For more information on the comic day and for the comic itself, go to http://www.gratiscomictag.de .

I've just come back from visiting 2 comic stores in Frankfurt. You could get up to 5 of the free comics in each one & it was chaos in both shops.

In the 1st one I picked up Thor (Marvel comics), Green Lantern (DC comics) & you guessed, the Smurfs

In the second one I got another Green Lantern issue & another 2 Smurf issues.

As well as that I picked up the May releases of the Toonfish Smurf albums (these are the first ones I have of these releases):-

#26: Die Schlümpfe & das allwissende Buch
#29: Die Schlümpfe & der goldende Baum

For some reason they aren't being released in number order
These are the releases for March - October 2011 (issues 1-7 & 21-29):-
March #1 & #28
April #2 & #27
May #26 #29
June #3 & #25
July #4 & #24
August #5 & #23
September #6 & #22
October #7 & #21

Yup, I was allowed to pick up five comics either.

I looked whether they had the Toonfish albums available, but the owner told me that they had to order them. However, I may subscribe without any charging fees, if pick them up at the store.

Apart from the Smurfs, I picked up:

- The Muppet Show
- The Peanuts
- Donald Duck
- Princess Sakura


I also learned from an extra mag why the Smurf album hadn't been sold in Germany for more than a decade. IMPS wanted to charge Carlsen way too much for the licence fees, which they wouldn't pay. Then the splitt company "Toonfish" paid up for the licence and has just started to release
all classic albums, plus the "Schlumpfereien" and "Johan & Peewit" albums.

For more infomation turn to: http://www.toonfish-verlag.eu

I've ordered the March & April Toonfish releases from Amazon.de so hopefully they'll arrive in the next few days

Very well done., Tojo. I am going to ask for the subskription on Friday.