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Hector Oesterheld, francisco Solano López, 1957 |
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El
Eterrnauta is considered as the argentinian most fascinated and
famous comic book not only in Latin America, but around the world.
This story that came from the mind of HECTOR OESTERHELD - the most prolific comic book writer from Argentina and Hispanic America - and originally drew by FRANCISCO SOLANO LÓPEZ saw the light for the first time on the pages of HORA CERO magazine in 1957. |
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The first part of EL ETERNAUTA finished in 1959. Oesterheld took his science-fiction saga back in the year of 1962 in the homonymous magazine. Several artists participated in this edition, as several were the adventures Juan Salvo had to go through in his battle against the invaders. Starting in the issue number 6, the author began again the invasion story which got to its climax with the destruction of New York city. The episode remained inconclusive and the character had to wait until 1969 to be published again. Oesterheld decided to rewrite the character's story from the very beginning, but this time he took a more agressive political position. The invaders did not longer take the whole planet; an agreement with the north countries made that THEM only took the southern nations of the orb. This new stage saw light in "GENTE" magazine and was masterfully drawn by the Uruguayan radicated in Argentina ALBERTO BRECCIA - whom together with Oesterheld would create one of the most attractive and interesting character of the southern comic book history: MORT CINDER. Due to editorial differences, GENTE magazine stopped to publish the story and it had to pass certain time to read it again. In 1976, SKORPIO magazine published the second part of EL ETERNAUTA, which counted again with the art of SOLANO LÓPEZ. In this sequel, JUAN SALVO is a mutant with superpowers and finally free the planet. But the one who couldn't make it from the Argentinian dictatorship of the time was HECTOR OESTERHELD; taken prisioner, he misteriously dissapeared in the authoritarian goverments' hands in the year of 1977. |
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Althought the author had dissapeared, the impact caused by the story and the character was seen in several publications inspired by themselves. Among the different printed editions, there was a third part published in Italia in the year of 1983 which was written by Alberto Ongaro and drew by his brother Mario Morhain, Oswald and Solano López; this adeventure had an accpetable reception in teh european country, but it was severely critized by the argentinian readers. In 1997, Pablo "Pol" Maitzegui joined Solano López and created "EL ETERNAUTA: EL MUNDO ARREPENTIDO" (THE ETERNAUT: THE SORRY WORLD), an alternating adventure of the character through his voyage for the eternity. A fourth part titled EL ETERNAUTA: EL ODIO CÓSMICO (THE ETERNAUT: THE COSMIC HATE) was written by Ricardo Barreiro and with art by Walter Taborda and Gabriel Rearte. This story had to be interrupted in the third issue due to legal troubles. In 1999, "Pol" and Solano López made - as far as we know - the last adventure of this character in the italian nation. After more than forty years - in 2007 it will be half a century -, EL ETERNAUTA seems to continue his perennial journey in the comic book world and, for its readers' approval, seems to be with us for an eternity. |
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