Peter

I remember wondering if it was the same character or just his friend.

By the time of the first Brazilian edition of Secret Wars, She-Hulk was already well-known by Brazilian readers and her skin tone was solidly established as green (Abril published the Savage She-Hulk issue with Morbius and Gemini early on, as well as the Dazzler issue that guest-starred She-Hulk).

Not long before Secret Wars, Incredible Hulk #282 (first meeting of She-Hulk and Hulk) was published by Abril as well. The storyline that followed had the Avengers teaming up with Bruce against the Leader. She-Hulk and Captain Marvel (Monica) were members at the time, but Abril had yet to introduce Monica and Jennifer had not yet been introduced as an Avenger, so the dialog and captions made Jennifer a tag-along and Captain Marvel was completely edited out (for instance, it was Iron Man who created the flash of light that put Thor out of his brainwashing).

Abril staff actually made a point of mentioning that such editing was needed and fairly routine by that time (I’ve read such a statement at a local fanzine). They were correct, too. For all its faults, Abril was in fact one of the best publishers ever, often better than Marvel itself.

X-Men are known as “Patrulla X”. But Daredevil is the most hillarious: Dan Defensor.

In Mexico Punisher was known as “El Matón” (the correct translation of Punisher been “Castigador” which sounds horrible). Kingping as “El Rey”. Wolverine beared the name “Glotón” in comics (is an accurate translation of the Canadian animal, but in Spanish “Glotón” reffers more to a gluttony person), so when the 1990 fox cartoons came, Wolverine was known as Guepardo.

In Spain Wolverine is known as “Lobezno” which is a kind of wolf’s cub.

First time I read such mess I did not understand what was happening.

But I’m afraid you will have to use Google to translate if you don’t speak portuguese

Honestly, I knew it was in #119, I just didn’t have the cover for #119.

If someone has a nice-sized cover for #119, I’d gladly put it in there.

There, you said: “Later on, though, when continuity caught up, they re-did Secret Wars…” and then you show “Capitão América” number 120.
Actually, they re-did Secret Wars one issue before, in C. América 119 (see the cover here: http://texbr.com/shop/capit-o-america-119-homem-de-ferro.html#)
If you translate this cover, you’ll see that “Vingadores: Qual o destino da equipe depois das Guerras Secretas” means “Avengers: what’s going to happen with them after the Secret Wars”, i.e., C. América 120 speaks about the “after-Secret Wars”.
My Regards,
Bathmann

Also, in many cartoons that are translated, they sometimes change the name, other times, they keep the English name but of course as the voice actors are Arab, the names are pronounced with an Arabic accent. Spider-man, for example, is either Al-Rajul Al-Ankaboot (literally, The Spider Man), or Sbider-Mahn depending on which cartoon you watch.

Well,

Spider-Man is in his red&blue.
As for Starfox, paint him blue, and you have …….Beast!
Cap. Marvel is nowhere to see, except for a moment when Hulk is hit by an energy beam (in the story, it´s one Scarlet Witch’s hex-spheres).

Ok, to be fair, these kind of things are not Ed. Abril fault. Marvel was being reprint by a number of publishers who could´t care a less to chronology and characters interactions.
When everyone was under Abril, by 1981/82, they had a lot of work to keep everything right, and, eventually they somehow managed to synchronize all the series’ continuity by late 80s or early 90s.

Talking about Secret Wars, of course.

1) Yes, Rogue and Cap. Marvel aren´t there. Lockheed is missing to.
2) Professor X first apearance is in his weelchair.
3) Iron Man was still Tony Stark, so they threw some cientific stuff and some “I know this guys for some many years” in his dialogues here and there.
4) Magneto/Wasp kiss was erased
5) Iron Man goes looking for a new base instead of Cap. Marvel.
6) The Encantor plot in Denver was erased.
7) She-Hulk doesn´t return with the FF.

I’m assuming that the actual German publications did not have ‘die Spinne’ on the back, and that it was just added because such labels were once common on American costumes, or at least those sold for kids. (Although obviously Peter Parker wore an adult size.)

Strangely enough, though, a few years later, my brother told me he saw a German-language Spider-Man for sale at a comic-book store in Tulsa, but the name in the title wasn’t ‘die Spinne’. (I can’t remember what he said it was.) I’m wondering now if maybe it was an Austrian or Swiss translation (could they have used a different name?), or perhaps it was Dutch or a Scandinavian language and he just mistook it for German.