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From the mid 1980s Wäscher, dubbed by his German fans ″Der
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During the 1950s, Wäscher worked for the Walter
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In 1967, Wäscher began a new series for the
Lehning-Verlag publishing house with the title "Roy Stark", which reached 18 large format volumes. Shortly before the publishing house closed down, the "Falk" series began a new storyline that was nonetheless cancelled after 17 issues . For the
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In 1955, "Titanus-Verlag" publishing house released two Wäscher booklets in its
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series with "Akim – Neue
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drew new covers for many of the books, as well as for ″Sprechblase" the magazine of the Hethke publishing house. "Sprechblase" was also a platform for Wäscher to continue some of his older stories. Nonetheless, the magazine did feature new heroes such as
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he began training as a poster artist, and then studied advertising art for seven semesters at the
Werkkunstschule Hannover. During this time he completed a transportation manual for the city of Hannover called "Der Herr Boll."
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Germany. The earliest issues of "Sigurd" have been auctioned for as much as 3,000 Euro. Other Wäscher comics also reach high prices in auction. In 2011 the "Sigurd" Piccolo booklets were released as an
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Hethke-Verlag Wäscher continued the series to its end an in 1988 Piccolo booklets Nr. 1-17 were reissued in album-format. In the third album the newly drawn ending of the series appeared.
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series was published until 1960 with a total of 324 books and after 1958 received a reprint in 124 booklets in large format. Later "Sigurd" also appeared as a
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was released with the cooperation of 42 German comics artists. Wäscher was concurrently awarded the ″PENG!″ comic prize for his lifetime achievements.
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