HAMİD ŞENDUR: A PIONEER OF TRACED COMICS
	Hamid Şendur, owner of Çocuk Yayınları [Çocuk Publications], was one of the first major implementers of a technique which became widespread in Turkish comics business in post-World War 2 era: having comics manually traced into b&w copies and printing from those copies (needless to say, without license from rights owners). Şendur first appeared in the Turkish market publishing children's magazines. An employee of Şendur has later argued that some had made fortunes in Turkey in those years by getting paper privileges (there was paper scarcity due to post-war conditions) from the government and then selling extras of your stock on the black market to big newspapers whose paper needs were always short of what was supplied to them, and that publishing children's magazines would play into your hands for getting such privileges, probably implying that Şendur was one of such investors involved with the black market. Şendur's children's magazines, Çocuk Alemi (?-1950), Armağan (1950-52) and Resimli Tomurcuk (1952-54), had featured some comics alongside stories, etc., but Şendur's first comics magazine was Çocuklara Armağan (1953-54) which featured Disney material. In 1958, Şendur began to publish Tenten which became the first Turkish comics magazine exclusively featuring Tintin; earlier, Tintin comics had been featured in several different children's magazines. Erdoğan Bozok was responsible for the cover illustrations as well the tracing job for Şendur's Tenten. Next year, Şendur put out two separate Disney comics, Tom ve Miki (Mickey) and Bob Hop Top (Donald), as well as Zorro. Şendur seems to have disappeared from the market in 1960s.
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								cover of no. 43 of Şendur's Tenten (1959)