American Newspaper Syndication
From November 1977 until early 1979 five albums were serialized in syndicated form in a number of North American newspapers. Since these were printed as part of the standard daily comics, and were broken into separately licenced but concurrent daily and Sunday strips, the art needed considerable reworking. This required editing a lot of the dialog. In addition, a number of names, jokes, and pieces of art were further changed to be more politically correct or idiomatic for the newspapers' family-oriented audience. The results were very different from the original translations. The stories printed appeared in, essentially random order as well, and the experiment came to an end quickly.
The stories which appeared were
- "Asterix the Gladiator" from November 27, 1977 to February 26, 1978
- "Asterix and Cleopatra" from February 26 to May 28, 1978
- "Asterix and the Great Crossing" from May 28 to August 27, 1978
- "Asterix and the Big Fight" from August 27 to November 26, 1978
- "Asterix in Spain" from November 26, 1978 to February 25, 1979 (however, most papers had dropped it well before the final date)
The Sunday color comic between stories contained the end of one story and the start of the next, each as a half page.
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