A PIONEER OF TRACED COMICS
�endur first appeared in the Turkish market publishing children's magazines. An employee of �endur has later argued that some had made fortunes in Turkey in those years by getting paper privileges (there was paper scarcity due to post-war conditions) from the government and then selling extras of your stock on the black market to big newspapers whose paper needs were always short of what was supplied to them, and that publishing children's magazines would play into your hands for getting such privileges, probably implying that �endur was one of such investors involved with the black market.
�endur's children's magazines, �ocuk Alemi (?-1950), Arma�an (1950-52) and Resimli Tomurcuk (1952-54), had featured some comics alongside stories, etc., but �endur's first comics magazine was �ocuklara Arma�an (1953-54) which featured Disney material. In 1958, �endur began to publish Tenten which became the first Turkish comics magazine exclusively featuring Tintin; earlier, Tintin comics had been featured in several different children's magazines. Erdo�an Bozok was responsible for the cover illustrations as well the tracing job for �endur's Tenten. Next year, �endur put out two separate Disney comics, Tom ve Miki (Mickey) and Bob Hop Top (Donald), as well as Zorro. �endur seems to have disappeared from the market in 1960s.
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