

My present interest in this historieta centers on the confluence of events that led to the appearance of the work at the dawn of what Andrea L. (3) Most people in the Argentine sf community, including the nation's foremost critic of the genre, Pablo Capanna, cite El Eternauta as one of the greatest works, if not the greatest work, of sf produced in that country (Capanna). The Essential Guide to World Comics calls Oesterheld "the most important comics writer in Argentine comics history, if not in the world" (Pilcher and Brooks 210).


1928), and serialized in the weekly comics magazine, Hora Cero Semanal, from 4 September 1957 to 9 September 1959. (2) The first and most iconic version of El Eternauta was written by Hector German Oesterheld (1919-78), drawn by Francisco Solano Lopez (b. Thus ends the first installment of El Eternauta, which was to become one of Latin America's landmark works in the area of adventure comics and in the genre of sf. The account of these events that we are now reading, the guionista declares, is the tale of the Eternauta just as the time traveler told it to him that night. He eventually reveals that his original name was Juan Salvo, but the identity of this ordinary man has been altered by extraordinary events. He has been called by hundreds of names, the most apt of which is el Eternauta because of his "triste y desolada condicion de peregrino de los siglos" (EtI_O-SL 5). The man tells the writer that he travels through time, searching the centuries for those he has lost. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.On a winter's night in 1957 (or 1959) (1) a guionista, or writer of comics, is working late in the atelier of his Buenos Aires home when a man dressed in futuristic clothing materializes in the chair across from him.

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