Hello there! I must have been thinking about MockBusters for a long while now. People have been reading and watching MockBusters since the dawns of both literature and cinema, we are just more aware of the legal and social implications surrounding MockBusters nowadays (in the Present Day) than ever before.
For a rather long time, but mostly from near the famed if rather unceremonious end to all the Shogun Periods up until the debut of both Mazinger Z and Gatchaman late in 1972, much of Japanese Pop Culture must have been suffering from misleading international marketing, which was mostly because of the fact that there was no Google Translate at the time!
On a more celebrated note, the Thai Comics Industry started in 1932 with a comic that began life as a local MockBuster to - of all things - Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye the Sailor Man. Said comic was titled Khun Muen after its eponymous titular Hero, who is a plucky Street urchin wearing a Spartan Warrior Hat.
In The Hispanic World, Heaps of Tarzan Boys would infiltrate the pop culture industry within a bang or two. The first of them all was Nanuk, written and drawn in Barcelona during the last years of the pre-Franco Era in the 20th Century. The most famous, however, was Tawa, the titular hero of the more popular spinoff within the Wama Line, written and drawn by a Mexican Comics luminary, Joaquín Cervantes Bassoco.
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