Alice in Wonderland Comic Adaptation in Margriet Magazine from the Netherlands

Previously we've seen serialized adaptations of the Alice film in comic strips and magazine from the US, the UK, Turkey, and Belgium.  It turns out there is another, also based on the Belgian Mickey Magazine adaptation, that appeared in a weekly women's magazine in the Netherlands.

Published from 1938 through the current day, Margriet ran a serialized adaptation in Dutch from December 22, 1951 to April 19, 1952.  While almost exactly the same as their Belgian counterparts, the individual installments do have one unique feature: color scheme.  Each issue (at this time anyway) is two-tone, but the non-black color varies from issue to issue, being one of green, red, or yellow.

Marx Queen of Hearts Holland Figure

I have to say I think this is the oddest of the various Holland color schemes. The Queen of Hearts is supposed to be red, not aquamarine?!

Marx March Hare Holland Figure

I must say that this March Hare Holland figure is probably the best of the bunch. Although the paint job is again quite off model, on this one it actually works. Kinda looks like Tuxedo March Hare.

Marx Alice Holland Figure

As bizarre as this looks, it is indeed correct. This is a Holland figure, so named because the word Holland is stamped on the bottom. It is the same size and material as the SP figure from yesterday, and probably dates from around the same time. There are also versions with the word Germany. All the Holland figures have unusual paint jobs, totally different from their American cousins. Perhaps this color scheme is related to the weird colors in the RKO promotional materials from the 1951 original release.

Big Golden Book - Netherlands

Continuing with our foreign Big Golden Book editions, we come to one of the most interesting of them all, the Dutch version.

This version is from 1955, and at first glance looks to be an early US edition since the title in Dutch is the same as in English and the cover has the same gold highlights. But, the Dutch apparently really liked the whole 'gold highlighting' motif, because they continued it on every interior page.

It was quite surprising when I first saw this, seeming a bit much, but has acquired a certain charm for me in years since.