History
Zembla was created at the initiative of editor-in-chief Marcel Navarro to compete with the highly successful Tarzanesque, Akim, published by Lug's competitor, Editions Aventures et Voyages.
The first episode of Zembla was drawn by Akim artist Pedrazza, but not being able to juggle the workload of two popular series, he had to bow out and the task was delegated to artists Franco Oneta and, later, his brother Fausto Oneta, who from that point on, remained the two main artists and creators, with a few, occasional fill-in artists.
Zembla’s adventures began in Special-Kiwi No. 15 in June 1963, before moving into its own monthly title the following month. A year later, a companion title, Special-Zembla, was launched. Zembla was eventually cancelled with No. 479 in 1994. Special-Zembla lasted until No. 175 published in 2003.
Zembla is now part of Hexagon Comics which has published a collection of his adventures translated into English.
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