Capitán Trueno

Capitán Trueno (lit. Captain Thunder) is the hero of a 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 uninterruptedly between 1956 and 1968, eventually becoming the most popular Spanish hero comic of all times: in its best moments it sold more than 170,000 copies every week.

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Spanish - Comic book - Víctor Mora - Miguel Ambrosio Zaragoza

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The hero is a 12th-century knight-errant, assisted by his faithful companions the cunning adolescent Crispín and the huge gourmandizer Goliath. His eternal dame is Sigrid of Thule, an energic 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.

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Part of the comic books have also been published in several Latin American countries, Portugal, and France.

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Latin American - Portugal - France

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