MAX Magazine #35/2022
MAX Magazine #35/2022 is an issue of the weekly Dutch TV-guide magazine published by MAX Mediaproducties, the print arm of Omroep MAX, the Netherlands' broadcaster aimed at the 50-plus audience. The Bartels characters (Eddie, Geke, and Herman) indexed in this issue represent the first catalogued appearances of that family in the collector database, making this the anchor issue for any future character-tracing work. Because MAX Magazine carries serialised comic strips embedded within a mainstream, non-specialist periodical reaching a very wide Dutch readership, character debuts in its pages are rarely flagged by the English-language key-issue community and thus tend to be underdocumented relative to their actual audience reach.
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MAX Magazine has been published weekly since its first issue in March 2013 by MAX Mediaproducties B.V., the publishing subsidiary of Omroep MAX, and is produced at the Media Park in Hilversum. By the period covering issue #35/2022, the title had grown into the largest paid print magazine in the Netherlands. No creator credits, editorial notes, or production history specifically tied to the Bartels strip or to issue #35 could be located across any of the standard comics-reference sources consulted.
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- Published by MAX Mediaproducties B.V., the publishing arm of Dutch broadcaster Omroep MAX, in 2022 as issue/week number 35 of its ongoing weekly run.
- MAX Magazine launched in March 2013 and publishes 52 issues per year, with occasional combined double-issues.
- By mid-2022, MAX Magazine had become the largest paid print magazine in the Netherlands, surpassing Libelle.
- The magazine is editorially positioned as a TV-guide-plus-lifestyle title for the 50-plus Dutch audience, routinely carrying comic strips alongside programming listings, puzzles, and feature articles.
- Eddie Bartels, Geke Bartels, and Herman Bartels are indexed as characters appearing in this issue, representing a family-unit cast consistent with the domestic/slice-of-life comic-strip tradition common in Dutch and Belgian magazine publishing.
- No creator credits (writer, artist) for the Bartels strip could be corroborated from publicly available sources at time of research.
- The issue carries no known documentation in major English-language key-issue databases (Key Collector, GoCollect) or comics wikis, reflecting the broader pattern of Dutch magazine-embedded strips being absent from anglophone collector records.
- The Grand Comics Database has catalogued other issues of MAX Magazine (e.g. #36/2020), confirming the series is known to international indexers, but specific story or character data for #35/2022 was not found in publicly visible GCD records.