Kirby’s Biggest Case comic from Club Nintendo, page 19.

Another small mini-project, to complete an unfinished comic on the web. Kirby’s Rainbow Resort has a great page on various Kirby comics and manga, with a very nice design. The only thing it was missing was the translation of the other CN Kirby comic, printed during the regular run, and half of one page from their translation of this comic, which had been corrupted somehow.

This comic, by the way, is from special edition #3 of the German magazine, and unlike most of the special issues, isn’t based on any one game in particular. Instead, there is a framing story about Kirby being a private eye with his assistants, Dedede and Bluefish, with interstitial dream sequences and so on to exhibit brief plugs for the spinoffs Kirby’s Dream Course, Kirby’s Ghost Trap, and Kirby’s Block Ball.

Anyway, this was a very quick job to add the lower third of the page just to make it complete, as well as retranslating the section that I had added. Font doesn’t match but meh, like I said it was a quick job.

I tried to post a topic on KRR’s forums about this, but it hasn’t been approved yet so if anyone’s involved over there, get on this! I can’t stand seeing things like this incomplete.

Speaking of which, here’s the links for the only Kirby comics I know of:

KRR’s nice page with lots of manga (mostly 4koma and a small bit of the CoroCoro comic, Dedede who lives in Pupupu, which is even cuter than usual) and the two Club Nintendo comics. There’re a few 4koma translations but it’s mostly the native Japanese. http://www.kirbysrainbowresort.net/multimedia/manga/

The English translation of Kirby and the Secret of the Glibber (ie the other CN comic) is included as part of the CN translation project by Opentrain. This has not been brought over to KRR either, so you spies get onto that too! It’s in the 1994 edition, here: http://opentrain.199xchan.org/?p=223

Of course, Kirby also featured fairly regularly in other comics during Club Nintendo’s run, in crossover situations. Highlights would be the Wizard of Oz parody wherein he is evetually turned into a toaster, and Die Nacht des Grauens (The Night of Horrors), in which he, Link and Mario become demon hunters. To see these and other comics, check out Opentrain’s site. They’ve done 4 years of comics so far, but also provide a link for the (almost) complete German raw collection.