Carol Day in Yugoslavia

Many thanks to Bane Kerac for providing this information and the photograph!

In the mid 1960's, the publisher Dnevnik from Novi Sad had the Yugoslav rights for Carol Day and Judy. Carol Day was published as a daily strip in the daily newspaper "Dnevnik" (meaning "Diary" or simply, "Daily"). On a few occasions, Dnevnik used panels from Carol Day as covers for their edition of pulp novels - Roto biblioteka X-100 (Roto Library X-100).

Roto is for rotation print and X-100 was given due to the popularity of different secret agents' code names (x-9, 007, etc).

This is one of them.

Roto biblioteka X-100
Detective novel #81
Ellery Queen - The Spanish Cape Mystery
softcover, about 60 - 90 pages

Carol Day in a Portuguese Political Newspaper

In the early 1970s Carol Day was one of several comic strips the Portuguese Jornal do Emigrante published, in which the original dialog was rewritten to express revolutionary political ideas.

Click here to view to see an example in a Portuguese political blog.

The text in the blog entry translates into English as follows: Influenced by the use of comics by the situacionists, the group publisher of Jornal do Emigrante, (in fact, one of the groups since the title of the newspaper was used by two distinct political sectors in the emigrant community, each competing for the legitimacy of its use - so there's 2 newspapers with the same name), published several comic strips, cartoons and caricatures using the original images and characters but giving them revolutionary phrases and plots. (Jornal do Emigrante, 10-11, May-June 1971.)

In English, the captions read as follows:

1. Adam Boone: I'm fleeing the country. Just came to say goodbye to you.
2. Carol Day: So, where are you going to?
3. Adam Boone: My draft papers just arrived. I'm thinking of running away to France.
4. Carol Day: You're running away to France?
5. Adam Boone: Yes. I'll only come back to make the revolution. But soon you'll join me there. Till then!

MANY THANKS to Alberto Soares for forwarding this to us and for translating the blogger's note and the strip dialog!

The Carol Day Scrapbooks

As Carol Day was being published, David Wright collected tearsheets of the episodes from the Daily Mail and pasted them into a set of numbered scrapbooks. 11 of these scrapbooks are in the possession of David Wright's estate. Copies of #3 and #4 are in the collection of Michigan State University. The whereabouts of #12 and #13 are unknown.

Scrapbook #1 begins with episode #101, so the set of tearsheets unfortunately lacks the first Carol Daystory.

The table below catalogs the content of the scrapbooks that we have seen. For scrapbooks we have not seen we have inferred the contents where it seemed reasonable. In these cases, we have noted "info presumed" in the Notes column.

Here are scans of scrapbooks 1, 6 and 7 to provide a feeling of the different types. Click image to enlarge.

Scrapbook #1	Scrapbook #6	Scrapbook #7

David Wright's Pinups

David Wright was Great Britain's foremost pinup artist during WWII. The Illustrated London News archive has a good presentation of nearly 200 of his pinups online. Click here to view it.

Miscellaneous Carol Day Strips by Kenneth Inns

Paul Trotter has kindly provided us with scans of some late Carol Days by Kenneth Inns.

#3704 Jan 14, 1969

#3705 Jan 15, 1969

#3706 Jan 16, 1969

#3811

#3998 Dec 27, 1969

#4407