Tina #6/1980
Tina #6/1980 is a representative weekly instalment of the Netherlands' first and most enduring comic magazine created exclusively for girls, published by Oberon at the height of its domestic creative output. By 1980 the title was running both its cornerstone strips simultaneously — the gag-strip 'Noortje' by Patty Klein and Jan Steeman, then five years into what would become the longest-running Dutch comic series made continuously by one creative team, and the title serial 'Tina en Debbie' by Andries Brandt and Purita Campos, the magazine's homegrown mascot strip since 1974. Together these series marked a decisive shift in the Dutch girls'-comics tradition away from imported British melodrama and toward original, recognisably Dutch storytelling aimed at a teenage readership.
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Tina launched on 10 June 1967 as a colour translation of the British Fleetway weekly Tina (later Princess Tina), published by N.V. Uitgeverij De Spaarnestad — which became Oberon BV when the comics divisions of Spaarnestad and De Geïllustreerde Pers merged in 1972. From the early 1970s onward, Oberon's editors cultivated a growing slate of original Dutch and Spanish-drawn productions alongside translated British material, so that by 1980 the magazine mixed homegrown serials with imported stories from IPC/Fleetway titles such as Judy, Bunty, and Jinty. The format in 1980 was 32 pages — a standard that held from the magazine's founding through 1984 — and covers were still painted portraits by Spanish artist Purita Campos, who held that role exclusively from late 1973 until issue #35 of 1983.
Trivia · 8 facts
- Tina (Dutch) was the first Dutch comic magazine created exclusively for girls, launched 10 June 1967 by publisher Spaarnestad/Oberon.
- By 1980 the magazine was published by Oberon BV (the comics division of Dutch media group VNU) and ran 32 pages per weekly issue.
- The ongoing strip 'Noortje' — scripted by Patty Klein and drawn by Jan Steeman — featured its title character Noortje Visser and her friend Marlies; it had been running since Tina #37 of 1975 and would continue for over four decades, holding the record as the longest-running Dutch comic series made continuously by the same creative team.
- The magazine's title serial 'Tina en Debbie,' starring model Tina Ruysdal and fashion-designer friend Debbie, was scripted by Andries Brandt and illustrated by Purita Campos, having debuted in Tina #35 of 1974.
- Purita Campos also painted all of Tina's covers in this period (exclusively from late 1973 through issue #35 of 1983) and drew the Dutch version of 'Patty's World,' published in Tina as 'Peggy's Wereldje' (1971–1986), featuring the character known in Dutch editions as Peggy Lucas.
- In addition to original Dutch-produced strips, Tina in 1980 carried translated serials sourced from British girls' comics publishers, including stories originally appearing in Judy, Bunty, Jinty, and Debbie.
- From 1977 onward, Oberon collected the best Tina material in the 'Tina Topstrip' reprint album series, which ran to 71 volumes by 1985, alongside the 'Tina Dubbeldik Superalbum' spin-off collection.
- Patty Klein — the writer most closely associated with Tina and described by the Lambiek Comiclopedia as the 'grande dame of Dutch comics' and the first woman in a full-time job in the Dutch comics industry — was by the early 1980s filling nearly half of each issue with her own series.