Zigomar
"Zigomar" was a Yugoslavian comic based on "The Phantom".
History
Zigomar is a fictional comic book character, whose adventures were published by magazine called Mikijevo carstvo (i.e. "Mickey's Kingdom") in the late 1930's, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. When the owner Milutin S. Ignjačević started the magazine, most of the popular comic strips like "The Phantom", "Flash Gordon", and Disney characters, were already published by the other child magazines such as Mika Miš (i.e. "Mickey Mouse") and Politikin Zabavnik (Politika's funny papers – an imprint of a daily newspaper Politika). So, trying to bring something new to the readers, "Mikijevo carstvo" started a new comic called "Zigomar", a character resembling American comic heroes of that time.
The artist of this new comic was Nikola Navojev (his pen-name was Nick Woodly), young Russian refugee, who came to Yugoslavia after the communist revolution in his native country. The writer was Branko Vidić. Zigomar was a young, wealthy new-yorker, who secretly fought crime, wearing a mask, a caped costume and a ring with letter "Z" sign on it, wich stayed on the faces of the evil-doers when he punched them, just like the Phantom's ring did. He also had a kid sidekick, a chinese boy named Chi-Yang. Nobody knew his secret identity, apart from Chi-Yang and of course, the readers.
Stories
| # | Title | Issues |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Zigomar" | Mikijevo carstvo #29 – #58? |
| 2 | "Zigomar protiv Fantoma" | Mikijevo carstvo #59 – #74? |
| 3 | "Nevesta bogova" | Mikijevo carstvo #75 – ? |
| 4 | "Bič pravde" | Mikijevo carstvo #? |
| 5 | "Misterije Egipta" | Mikijevo carstvo #? |
| 6 | "Leteći Zigomar" | Mikijevo carstvo #? and Leteći Zigomar #2 |