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| "El Halcón Negro" Nº275, 31 July 1967. Published by Editora de Periódicos "La Prensa", of Mexico, after the late '50s crisis in comics, which caused a hiatus in most of the comic books of the period, both in Spanish and English. "La Prensa" returned with some of its titles, but the stuff inside the books was basically changed. Even the logo became different: a standing-up lion, instead of the familiar lion at rest that used to identify the house comic books. In the case of "El Halcón Negro", the original source of which had passed to DC Comics, after Quality folded, the adventures of the fighting flying aces came, in their Mexican version, under the banner of Editorial Novaro, which carried all the DC line of comics, such as "Superman", "Batman" and "Mystery in Space" ("Titanes Planetarios"). The title was changed to "El Halcón de Oro" ("The Golden Hawk"), and the basic premise of the stories turned from fighting totalitarism to chase mere criminals. But "La Prensa" retained the original title, "El Halcón Negro", and produced spurious stories, drawn and written by Mexican professionals. The magazines carried only one or two stories, instead of the standard four that were common in the American comic books, and they showed a bent to the parodic. The art was swiped from an amazing variety of sources, to the point that the astonished reader could be abruptely confronted with Juliet-Joneish, Flash-Gordonish or Long-Samish characters, merrily mixed together in the midst of the most outrageous plots... In a way, those mags were funny, so at least one or two of them deserve to be included into the collection. | ||
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