This is the oldest comic I have kept. It's in loose leaves and is one of the two colour stories out of the 1964 Tiger annual which I got brand new for Chrismas ('63... did those things have the year that was just about to begin? I can't remember) and which was read to death at an early age. I have always wondered if this was drawn by a Spanish artist, as it has a more robust quality than all the other things that were around it in the book. M'colleague David Roach, expert in these things, has just told me that it's the work of Argentinian Francisco Solano López. Lopez drew EL ETERNAUTA in his home country between 1957 and 1959, as shown here in a recent reprint of Dec.2010, by m'other colleague Pepo Perez. From wikipedia: "A success, El Eternauta came to the attention of the authorities as the series featured commentary of the political situation of Argentina and neighbouring Chile, prompting López to flee for Spain to avoid possible arrest." In Madrid, among other things, López obtained work though an agency that supplied finished comic art to Fleetway in London, presumably from scripts commissioned there (I need names and details!). Through the London connection López drew the long-running Kelley's Eye, of Which British comics afficionado Captain Storm has been posting a great deal (scroll to the beginning). The piece in my files here is set in Dolumbia, one of those made-up Latin American dictatorships of which in my childhood I came to think there must be an unlimited supply. The villain is General Tanco. I'm surethe artist must have felt roused to make a good job of it.