Marcianeros
[1962]
H.G. Oesterheld
[SCRIPT]
Francisco Solano López
[DRAWINGS]
Another wonderful fable of ordinary men facing extraordinary situations. This time, three Argentines (a mechanic, a farmhand and a high school student) get involved in a secret plan to colonize Mars and end up saving the Earth from being destroyed by the evil aliens from the planet Kurmo.
Azula, the secret base of the Martianeros scientific society, is located in Antarctica. Several missions for the colonization of the "red planet" have been launched from there, with which contact has mysteriously been lost. The brilliant mechanic Ramón Rosales, his friend "Chato" and the student Mario Larco are recruited by the Marcianeros to integrate a rescue team that, upon arriving on Mars, is confronted with targeted tornadoes and zombies. There, they make contact with Kurmos aliens, who trick them into sending to Earth a ship that conceals a weapon that will destroy our planet. The Marcianeros manage to abort the plan, while the three Argentines sacrifice themselves for Humanity, blowing up the Kurmo planet. This comic, of more than one hundred pages, was published between 1962 and 1964, in the magazine Súper Misterix, at the same time that Oesterheld, together with Alberto Breccia, was creating one of his masterpieces, Mort Cinder. Its first cartoonist was Francisco Solano López and it was later continued by Julio Schiaffino and VÃctor Hugo Di Benedetto.
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Bio
[H.G. Oesterheld]
[Francisco Solano López]
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Héctor Germán Oesterheld
[Script]
Héctor Germán Oesterheld was born in Buenos Aires on July 23, 1919. Unanimously considered the most iconic author of Argentine comics and a global reference of the genre, he created more than 60 works throughout his career. Before establishing himself as a comic book author, he was editor of science fiction literature in the magazine Más Allá, and later, in Géminis. He published in the magazines Misterix, Hora Cero and Frontera, among many others. His best known characters are Sergeant Kirk, Ernie Pike, Sherlock Time and Mort Cinder, but it is undoubtedly The Eternauta the creation that gives him a place among the masters of comics. Towards the end of the 70's, in parallel with his social and political commitment, his works became more and more committed and openly critical of the military regimes of the time. After the 1976 coup d'état, Oesterheld went underground, where he continued writing scripts, among them the sequel to El Eternauta. On April 27, 1977, he was kidnapped by the "task forces" and has been missing ever since. In Argentina, the Day of the Comic Strip is celebrated on September 4, in commemoration of the first edition of Hora Cero magazine, in 1957.
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Francisco Solano López
[Drawings]
He was born in Buenos Aires, in 1928, and is considered one of the great cartoonists of the Argentine comic strip.
He began his career in 1953, at Columba publishing house, and two years later his path would cross with that of Héctor G. Oesterheld, with whom he began working on the strip Bull Rocket, in Misterix magazine.
Together they would develop characters and stories such as Joe Zonda, Rul de la Luna, adopted Martian Rolo and Marcianeros, among others.
In 1957 they began to publish The Eternaut, in the weekly supplement Hora Cero, the work for which both would be universally recognized.
In the 1960s he lived in Europe, working for the Fleetway publishing house, and in 1976 he met again with Oesterheld to produce The Eternaut II.
He is the author of other classics of Argentine comics such as Evaristo, with Carlos Sampayo, Slot Bar and Ministerio, both with Ricardo Barreiro.
He passed away in Buenos Aires in 2011.