Hi there. Secondhand Akim comics are everywhere from EBay to Amazon; which helps because they’re affordable in France and Italy. https://www.ebay.fr/itm/113753979513

The titular star of the comics initially wore an innocuous loincloth (it was the early 1950s after all) but who later became a notorious fan of skimpy briefs by the mid 1960s, when the Beatniks gave way to the Hippies. Some of the villains and other antagonists wear loincloths as well.

Hmm, searching around there, looks like kind of a French off-brand Tarzan -- and one I hadn't heard of, either.

Thanks for sharing this!

Also, what is with how some of the Africans are drawn in some of those comics? I swear some look uncomfortably like some racist caricatures I've seen.

Thanks for bringing this title to my attention, had not heard of it before and I'm loving the cover artwork on the various issues.

Karsten

There are a lot of European comics with loinclothed (or similar) heroes (mostly Tarzanides: inspired by Tarzan) -- besides Akim, there's (heads up, links are not in English) Yataca, Zan/Zarawa, Kuma, Bengala, Kali/Zora, Tiki, Djeki, Djinga, Tamar, Tibor, Kimba (not the Japanese white lion, but an Italian photographic fumetti and for which I couldn't find a good link)... you have quite a dive ahead of you. :D

Thank you for posting this, I was unaware of most of these titles.

Karsten

I was going to add, before we were so rudely interrupted by spammers, that there are also many prehistoric/post-apocalyptic European titles that might be worth checking out. The ones that immediately leap to mind are Rahan (http://www.rahan.org/fr/index.html), Tounga (https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-8003-BD-Tounga-Cartonnee.html), Waki (https://www.forumpimpf.net/wikipimpf/index.php?title=Waki), Henga (also known as Yor the Hunter, yes, as in the Reb Brown movie) (https://loscomicsdemachete.blogspot.com/2016/10/henga-la-gran-ilusion.html), Kronos (https://www.forumpimpf.net/wikipimpf/index.php?title=Kronos), and several others I'm sure I'm forgetting.

There were also a *lot* of Tarzan/Korak comics, mainly by Spanish and Yugoslavian artists, that were never reprinted in the US. Bane Kerac is arguably the best of them (https://www.erbzine.com/mag58/5850.html); his line work is up there with Manning and Hogarth.

thank you for letting comic fans like myself know about these titles, I'm really enjoying discovering some great cover art

Karsten

And here's the English part of that Rahan site (since the little link at the bottom of the French page is easy to overlook): https://www.rahan.org/uk/.

And thanks for sharing these, dscomicfan! 😎