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{{Short description|Comics magazine in Finland}}
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'''''Sarjakuvalehti''''' ([[Finnish language|Finnish]] for "comics magazine") was a Finnish comics magazine that was published from 1949 to 1963, from 1971 to 1977, from 1990 and 1996, and as ''Sarjakuvalehti Nastasarjat'' from 1964 to 1965. Under its first publication period, the magazine was [[Publishing|published]] about twenty times [[annual]]ly, eight times in the 1970s and seven to twenty times in the 1990s. In the beginning, the pages in the magazine alternated between black-and-white and coloured. From the 1990s, the magazine became fully coloured.

Recurring series in the 1950s included [[Superman]], [[Brick Bradford]], [[Toot and Casper]], [[Little Annie Rooney]], [[Smokey Stover]], [[Texas Slim and Dirty Dalton]], [[Tim Tyler's Luck]], [[Johnny Hazard]], [[Terry and the Pirates (comic strip)|Terry and the Pirates]], [[Lone Ranger]], [[Flash Gordon]], [[Mandrake the Magician|Mandrake]], [[The Phantom]] and [[King of the Royal Mounted]].

Recurring heroes in the 1970s were [[Kerry Drake]] and [[Steve Roper and Mike Nomad|Steve Roper]]. The [[Marvel Comics]] superhero [[Ghost Rider]] made his first appearance in [[Finland]] in ''Sarjakuvalehti''.

In the 1990s, the magazine featured the adventures of [[Marvel Comics]]' more "down-to-earth" characters (in the magazine staff's words), like the [[Punisher (comics)|Punisher]], [[Captain America]], the [[Ghost Rider]], and [[Sabretooth (character)|Sabretooth]].

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.kolumbus.fi/hannu.asikainen/sarjakuvalehti.htm ''Sarjakuvalehti'' at Hannu Asikainen's homepage]
* [http://www.perunamaa.net/sarjakuvarock/marvel/index.html Marvel Comics in Finland at Perunamaa]

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