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| "Superlibro de Supertorieta" 1954, an annual of "Supertorieta", published by Publicaciones Universales, S.R.L., of Buenos Aires, in December 1953. "Supertorieta" was a very appealing comic magazine which began its successful run in April 1953. At first, to match its title (which combined the prefix "super" with the last portion of the word "historieta", meaning "comic"), it presented an assortment of American characters (mainly from Fawcett), renaming them all with the same prefix before their names. So there was "Super Capitán" (for "Captain Midnight), "Super Aventurero" (for "Scarlett and Pinky"), "Super Fantasma" (for "Ghost Rider"), and so on. But then it turned to Sci-Fi stories, and began its most brilliant epoch. This cover, by Carlos Freixas, features "Super Marciano", which was no other but "Lars of Mars", a character from the Ziff-Davis house, competently drawn by Murphy Anderson. (The character had a short run in USA, and it continued being published in "Supertorieta" in an adaptation by Argentine artist Carlos Clemen). The introductory page to the annual said, among other concepts, "...SUPERTORIETA will be, in effect, the magazine totally devoted to the future, that future which may already be anticipated, fantastic in all the magnificence of man's mental power, each day more the owner of those secrets that Nature used to conceal so zealously..." (Optimistic words, trade-mark of the early '50s!). The stuff the magazine used to carry, Fawcett and Ficction House characters, fulfilled indeed that introductory eloquence. It was a comic book which poured fantastic dreams into young readers' minds..., mine among them! That was the late Golden Age, after all... | ||
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