Movies, Games, Arts, Illustrations, Animations: FILE: SUPER HERO

There is a superhero that not many people know about. It was used to be called CICLONE but then it changed to NEMBO KID.

Here's the story of the not so well known origin of the world's famous super hero NEMBO KID.

who the hell is NEMBO KID?

The answer:

Concocted in Italy NEMBO KID is nonetheless than a moniker for SUPERMAN used by the Italian publisher Mondadori as a solution to pay less royalties to DC comics.

Infact Superman appeared in Italy on a weekly magazine called Audace in 1939, but then the alias NEMBO KID which literarily means (The Cloud Boy) was used between 1954 and 1966 when publishing went to another weekly magazine called Albi del Falco

This ingenious strategy though produced a few problems to the Italian translators and Italian illustrators that trickily had to repaint the colour of the suit (in the beginning was going to be changed to the italian flag's colour RED cape/WHITE shied/GREEN suit, but printing went wrong) and meticulously changing the S from the hero's chest and cape into a red shield first, and than, some how yellow from number 19.

Also some of the story were written by italian authors who portraited Superman/Nembo kid in a more human direction, oriented to use his super powers (renamed Ultra powers) for the welfare of the general public .

Although the origin of this weird translation (Nembo Kid) are unknown,
you can appreciate what Superman looked like in the 40s Italian Fashion.