The first four English album translations of Blueberry comics were published in Europe for release in the UK in the late seventies by Danish/British joint venture Egmont/Methuen, when Egmont, holding an international license at the time, was in the process of releasing the series on a wider, international scale, for Germany and the Scandinavian countries in particular. While Egmont completed the publication of the then existing series in whole for the latter two language areas, publication of the English titles already ceased after volume 4. Parent publisher Dargaud had planned to reissue these titles and more in translation for the North-American market in 1982/83 through their short-lived Dargaud International Publishing, Ltd. Canadian branch, but of these, only one was eventually released.; The failure of Dargaud International Publishing, Ltd. (and others) in the United States and British-Canada, at the time headed by Comanche writer Greg, was due to the fact that European publishers vastly underestimated the huge differences that existed at the time between the American and European comic worlds, both in spirit and tastes, as well as in practicality. American distributors and comic store keepers for example, were at the time simply not equipped to handle the for them awkward, deviant larger A4 European album format, in which Dargaud's albums were executed, including "The Man with the Silver Star". Having coined the failure "spectacular", Giraud later stated in the 1991 interview book by Sadoul (p. 69) that "to this day, Americans are still joking about it". That then unnoticed title, "The Man with the Silver Star", has, despite the fact that Giraud's art style had by now fully blossomed into his distinctive own, not been included in later North American collections, resulting in the album becoming an expensive rarity.
The first four English album translations of Blueberry comics were published in Europe for release in the UK in the late seventies by Danish/British joint venture Egmont/Methuen, when Egmont, holding an international license at the time, was in the process of releasing the series on a wider, international scale, for Germany and the Scandinavian countries in particular. While Egmont completed the publication of the then existing series in whole for the latter two language areas, publication of the English titles already ceased after volume 4. Parent publisher Dargaud had planned to reissue these titles and more in translation for the North-American market in 1982/83 through their short-lived Dargaud International Publishing, Ltd. Canadian branch, but of these, only one was eventually released.; The failure of Dargaud International Publishing, Ltd. (and others) in the United States and British-Canada, at the time headed by Comanche writer Greg, was due to the fact that European publishers vastly underestimated the huge differences that existed at the time between the American and European comic worlds, both in spirit and tastes, as well as in practicality. American distributors and comic store keepers for example, were at the time simply not equipped to handle the for them awkward, deviant larger A4 European album format, in which Dargaud's albums were executed, including "The Man with the Silver Star". Having coined the failure "spectacular", Giraud later stated in the 1991 interview book by Sadoul (p. 69) that "to this day, Americans are still joking about it". That then unnoticed title, "The Man with the Silver Star", has, despite the fact that Giraud's art style had by now fully blossomed into his distinctive own, not been included in later North American collections, resulting in the album becoming an expensive rarity.