Publishing
Information
Over the years, there have been several releases of Douwe Dabbert, such as the complete comic book series, published in different countries. See below.
Special book works have also been published. Consider: Albumklubben Trumf in Denmark (2 SC editions), 21 HC black and white editions by Publisher Barabas in the Netherlands, who also published 19 SC small black and white paperbacks. In addition, Lekturama in the Netherlands has issued 6 HC compiled albums. See below.
Also special are the so-called "inserts" from various countries, such as in Luxembourg in ZACK (6 issues), in Spain in Zipi y Zape (7 issues) and Pulgarcito (4 issues), in the United Arab Emirates (Barbie), in Indonesia (Bobo), but certainly in the Netherlands in Donald Duck (1975 - 2001), where Douwe Dabbert started......
At "inserts," each Douwe Dabbert story, distributed in various weeklies, is published.
Also, in the Netherlands, parallel to the Douwe Dabbert book series, announcements, posters, advertisements, stories, etc. of Douwe Dabbert were published in many comic magazines, such as in EPPO, Sjosji, Stripschap, Stripnieuws, Stripschrift, StripGlossy, Zozolala, etc. etc.
The first editions of Douwe Dabbert's complete album adventures were not only published in the Netherlands, but have been translated by a number of countries (See page "All books / country" and page "All books / specials"):
Danish (Gammelpot - 23 albums), Indonesian (Pak Janggut - 23 albums), English (Dusty Dabbert - 2 albums), Spanish (Bermudillo - 8 albums), Portuguese (Danny Doodle - 3 albums), Polish (Daniel Dudek - 1 album), Swedish (Teobald- 3 albums), Luxembourgish (Nicky Bommel - 1 album), German (Timpe Tampert - 3 albums) and in Dutch Frisian language (Douwe Dabbert - 1 album).
The following series were released in the Netherlands:
By publisher Oberon 14 SC and 14 HC.
By publisher Big Balloon 12 SC and 12 HC.
In deluxe hardcover version in cassette by publisher Lekturama (6 books).
In a very deluxe, limited edition by publisher Barabas. In this series, the 21 stories appear in black and white, at almost the size Piet Wijn was used to drawing (34.6 x 45.6 cm).
Publisher Barabas also published 19 SC small black and white booklets, so-called "Knapzak / Knapsack" (9.8 x 13.0 cm).
By publisher Don Lawrence Collection / Publisher L, 23 SC and 23 HC have been issued, as well as a special 23-volume "Collectors Edition" HC series to which some pages have been added with background information on the creation of the respective story. The covers have been somewhat updated and the coloring has been renewed.
In addition, both Oberon, Big Balloon and Publisher L have issued reissues and reprints.