Significance of the Study
Born in Eskişehir in 1951, Ali Recan completed his primary and secondary education here has completed. In 1966, with his entrepreneurial spirit, he created new business opportunities. He went to Istanbul in order to provide it. After working as a lawyer’s clerk for a few months Then he decided to put his drawing talent into play and worked in advertising companies and He started to work as a graphic designer in newspapers.
In many areas of the painting industry, from caricature to vignette painting After working with MIT Agent Selim Sargın and Central Asian Hero Alp Tiki’s He has experimented with short comic books. Then they were called the Mediterranean Pirate He added Şahin Reis. Daily newspapers such as MUtlugiller and Fingirdek Filiz He prepared cartoonish tapes. In the meantime, to complete his unfinished education first Vefa High School and then Sultanahmet Economic and Commercial Sciences He attended the night sections of the Academy.
Since 1972, he has been the most enduring and well-known comic book hero. He started to draw Captain Volkan. This Hero first appeared in The Last Havadis, Evening and Tercüman newspapers. However, Volkan’s main success is As early as 1976, one of the weekly comic magazines of Tay Publications He caught him using it as a filler in Bonanza. Owner of the publishing house Seeing this potential, Captain Volkan presents the reader with his own independent title. He decided to present it and made a deal with Ali Recan. So in 1976 Captain Volkan’s weekly magazine was published and for 176 weeks/issue, Tay His publications have appeared with his logo.
Confident in the popularity of his cartoon hero, Ali Recan from this publishing house He left and established his own publishing house under the name of Alfa Publications and Captain Volkan, 1978 Since then, it has continued to publish with the logo of this publishing house. Translator Children, Turkey Children’s magazines and the newspapers of these publications are also famous Another prepared by Ali Recan, who managed to sell the adventures of his hero The comic book title is Captain Venus. Also copyright since 1980 It has been the sole publisher of Conan for many years. Alpha in 1982 In order to overcome the economic bottleneck in which Publications fell, he partnered with Turgut Sağıroğlu and after this date, he assumed the position of Editor-in-Chief of the publishing house. In 1986, due to some differences of opinion, he founded Alfa He was forced to leave his publications, and the following year he became the General Secretary of Marvel Publications. He was appointed as the Director of Publications. Kesim Agency owner Nurcihan Kesim, and Aslı Marvel Publications, which is owned by Karasuil, is generally an American super has published the adventures of his heroes, but here is also some opinion He could not live long due to their separation.
In 1989, Recan was selected from Dede Korkut’s stories called ‘Tepegöz’u Damla Animation’ It was prepared for the Ministry of Culture as a cartoon produced by the company. After this date, Ali Recan took a break from his work in the comic book lane for a while He prepared the election work of some politicians. Official in 1989 With a special provision published in the Gazette, he was appointed as an advisor to Adnan Kahveci and until Adnan Kahveci lost his life in a traffic accident. continued. Towards the end of the 1990s, for the first time in Turkey Children’s magazine, a new He reappeared with the title of the comic book, but in 1965-1967 Doğan Brother’From the Lightning Captain/Buck Rogers and Fireball comics The collage he made failed this time and did not keep the series. Recan, 1999 year
In the end, he established a publishing house with a different trade name under the name of Alfa and re-established He returned to comic book publishing. During this period, Star Trek, Red Sonja, Conan, King Conan, Super Horror, Captain Volcano and other titles in different formats has brought it to the reader, but none of the series has achieved the expected popularity again. He could not catch it. He had two children, a girl and a boy, and he had a sudden He died in Istanbul on May 14, 2002 due to a brain disorder.
In 1972 he created his most known character Yüzbasi Volkan, a captain of the Turkish Air Force. After releasing as strips in several newspapers publisher Tay Yayinlari started to release a book series of Volkan in 1976.
In 1978 Recan founded his own publishing company Alfa Yayinlari. First he released series of his own comics, Volkan and Kaptan Venüs. Later he published several Marvel titles in Turkey, started with Conan. Conan became such an succes in Turkey that Ali Recan even founded a fan club.
In 1986 he leaved Alfa and in 1987 he became Chief Editor of Marvel Comics Group/Turkey. After a long abstinence in the beginning of the 1990’s he re-founded Alfa in 1999.
He died 2002 in Istanbul.
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