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Anyone Read Greek?
Digging through my comic collection to see what I want to sell, I found my collection of foreign comics. Not sure if there's any real market for them. But they're also some of the ones I'm least attached to. So I figured I'd start there. Most of them are French. I've identified one as Swedish (by Googling the publisher name). That leaves these two.
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I think these are Greek, based on the funny alphabet. But as I don't really know how to do Google searches in a different alphabet, I'm out of luck there. (Besides, it's not like there's an obvious publisher name on the covers.)
So...
Can anyone confirm for me that they are Greek?
Anyone know where there might be a market for Greek translations of Marvel comics?
What about Swedish or French ones?
I recognize that as indeed the Greek alphabet. I can pronounce it, although I don't understand Greek. The left one appears to be a phonetic rendering: it says "Souper Spa-inter Man". (Presumably "Super Spiderman").The right-hand one says
"Extra Superheroes No. 4 -- 200 Drachmas"
"Kaptain Marvel"
The Hulk is saying "Mono chalch xerei polemai!". With the help of several translation engines, I'm pretty sure that means "Hulk knows only battle!" (I got "halh knows only polemai", so I asssume "halh" is a phonetic rendering of "hulk" with Scottish/German H's. "Polemai" I recognize as related to "polemic" from the Greek root for "battle".) The other guy is saying "Tha se apogoeteus(?) prasinoto-maro!" I can't get a translation of that, although I do know that "prasino-" means "green". The banner at the bottom says "Mia nea epoxe megaleiou" which translates very neatly as "A New Era of Greatness".
Say it with me: Google is your friend %^).