El Capitán Trueno (lit. "Captain Thunder") is the hero of a series of Spanish comic books, created in 1956 by the writer Víctor Mora and illustrated mainly by Miguel Ambrosio Zaragoza (Ambrós). The comics were published continuously between 1956 and 1968, with Trueno eventually becoming the most popular Spanish hero comic of all time: at its height it sold more than 170,000 copies every week. The series was inspired by Hal Foster's Prince Valiant.[1][2]
The comic was first published in 1956.[3] Portions of the comic books have also been published in several Latin American countries, Italy (as "Capitan Tuono"), Greece (having its own title "ΤΡΟΥΕΝΟ", by Nikolaos Deligiorgis editions), Portugal and France. The series suffered some limited censorship during the dictatorship. Censors were concerned, for example, that Capitán Trueno and Sigrid were traveling around the world unburdened by matrimonial ties (vínculos matrimoniales).[4]
Characters and storyEdit
El Capitán Trueno is a 12th-century knight-errant,[5] assisted by his faithful companions the cunning adolescent Crispín and the huge gourmand Goliath. His eternal dame is Sigrid of Thule, an energetic Viking princess who takes part in many of the adventures of the trio. In successive books, Capitán Trueno and his friends travel the whole world enforcing justice and freedom against bullies and tyrants, never using more violence than necessary.
El Capitán Trueno has been the subject of several popular songs; by Asfalto, in their eponymous 1978 debut album, and by Spanish pop veteran Miguel Bosé in his song "El Hijo del Capitan Trueno" (Captain Thunder's Son) from his 2001 album Sereno.
ReferencesEdit
^ abThomas, Owain (April 30, 2008). . CNN Traveler. Archived from the original on September 21, 2009.
^Bishop, Chris (August 25, 2016). Medievalist Comics and the American Century. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN978-1-4968-0851-6.
^Perriam, Chris; Perriam, Professor of Hispanic Studies Chris; Thompson, Michael; Frenk, Susan; Frenk, Both Lecturers in Spanish Susan; Knights, Vanessa (2000). A New History of Spanish Writing, 1939 to the 1990s. Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-871517-7.
^. Archived from the original on November 19, 2008. Retrieved March 10, 2006.
^Darowski, Joseph J. (January 24, 2012). The Ages of Superman: Essays on the Man of Steel in Changing Times. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-6308-4.
^"Sergio Peris Mencheta será el Capitán Trueno". El Mundo (in Spanish). June 1, 2010.
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