Kurt Dunder
Frank Madsen started work on Kurt Dunder in 1988. Kurt Dunder is a world-famous adventurer and scientist, and we follow his exploits around the world with his friend Bill Milton and the domesticized chimpanzee Attila in pursuit of truth and justice. The first story was a serialized in a magazine and in 1991 "Kurt Dunder in Africa" (Kurt Dunder i Afrika) was published by Carlsen Comics as a 48-page comic in color, which sold 8.000 copies. "Kurt Dunder in Greenland" (Kurt Dunder på Grønland) was serialized in the Danish tabloid BT and published by Carlsen in 1994. The third, "Kurt Dunder in Tirol" (Kurt Dunder i Tyrol) was published in 2000. In November 2002 a new bi-monthly Danish comics magazine, Kurt Dunder & Kompagni, printed four chapters of a new Kurt Dunder story, "Kurt Dunder and the Nanobots", before it closed in May 2003. This story was drawn in a different style and was entirely in black and white. Two minor stories with Kurt Dunder exist: "The Moon-struck Mummy" with story by Ingo Milton, layouts by Frank Madsen and art by Sussi Bech, and "Kurt Dunder in Alaska" written by Peter Becher Damkjær and art by Frank Madsen. In 1996, Frank Madsen was the first comics artist in Denmark to publish his comic on the World Wide Web, putting up Kurt Dunder’s Living Room as a highly interactive site. In 2009 "Kurt Dunder in Africa" was the first Danish comic to be sold through Nokia's Ovi Portal.
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