"Hombres Audaces" started being published by Editorial Molino in Spain in 1936 and stopped a few months later because of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Molino then moved to Argentina and continued publishing from 1936 until 1953, as Editorial Molino Argentina, for a total of 373 issues. They resumed publishing in Spain in 1941, and some titles exist in both editions with different covers. Hombres Audaces reprinted The Shadow (La Sombra), Doc Savage, Bill Barnes, Pete Rice and The Avenger, mostly with the original covers.
The collection has two numberings, a general one (from #1 to #373) and a separate one for each character. Some issues of the Argentinian edition were never published in Spain, but Molino kept the Argentinian numbering on the spine of the issues published in Spain.
Overall, the pulps were not published in chronological order, many issues being skipped (probably due to censorship problems) and others switched around. For Bill Barnes, character and airplane names were changed, paragraphs skipped and others inserted in order to adapt the plot to its random publishing order.
Here are all the issues I have in my collectiom. Enjoy!
The Shadow
Spanish Edition
#1 (4) April 25, 1936 #3 (12) June 20, 1936
#4 (16) July 18, 1936 #11 (47) 1939
#14 (79) December 1944 #20 (103) August 1945
#21 (107) November 1945 #24 (117) June 1946
#25 (121) July 1946 #27 (129) October 1946
#29 (142) May 1947 #32 (153) September 1947
#39 (179) May 1948 #40 (185) July 1948
Argentinian Edition
#1 (4) September 23, 1938
Doc Savage
Spanish Edition
#2 (6) May 2, 1936 #4 (14) June 27, 1936
#5 (18) July 25, 1936
Argentinian Edition
#13 (48) September 3, 1939 #51 (208) 1949
Pete Rice
Spanish Edition
#? January 1946 #? (65) February 1944
Further reading:
- Tercera Fundación, in Spanish.
- Tebeosfera, "Los Hombres Audaces de Molino" by Hector Pérez Día. In Spanish.
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