Now For a Really Hard Question

[Gothos]

Try to name 50 Great Hispanic Comics Characters...

Without mentioning any characters from LOVE AND ROCKETS.

First poster to mention Vibe gets an automatic pantsing.

[telerites]

SPEEDY GONZALES - the fastest mouse around.

And I think WHITE TIGER was hispanic.

[TheHistorian]

Gus Arriola's Gordo

[Dos]

wow

ive been thinking and I can name characters by desciption but not name.

[telerites]

I can't believe I failed to mention ZORRO in my earlier post. And me with all those Republic Serials.

[Toreador]

Well maybe not great but there are:

Zorro
El Diablo
She-Bat
Fire (DC)
Lady Rawhide
Gangbuster (DC)

That's all I can think of right now.

[prince hal]

Zorro!

The Cisco Kid and Pancho

Officer Montoya from the Gotham City PD

Baba Looey

There was a South American Blackhawk for one issue or so (circa #219) named Cisco, who was Andre's cousin (?).

[dan bailey]

ultra

isn't spider-girl spanish? i think i've read that bit of info somewhere ... never have picked up the comic.

[Sir Tim Drake]

This is kind of cheating, but...

Mafalda (plus her parents, her little brother and the rest of her supporting cast)
Perramus
Condorito
Inodoro Pereyra
El Eternauta
Los Supermachos
La Familia Burron
Alack Sinner

[Krypton King]

the new Blue Beetle
Alejandro Cruz (Kurt Busiek's Shockrockets)
Bushmaster of the Global Guardians
El Dorado (from the Super Friends)
Wildcat II (Yolanda Montez)
Tarantula (DC and Marvel)

[howyadoin]

And I think WHITE TIGER was hispanic.Yup. And so is the current incarnation, if I remember correctly.

[Hombre]

Junta, from Black Panther and the Crew, is from a Latin American Country IIRC.

[Simon Garth]

Stretching "great" by some margin:

El Aguila
Firestar? (never actually read anything with her in, but for some reason I think she is Hispanic)
What was that spider-related villain from the first Spectacular Spider-Man series? The Tarantula? (I can visualise the costume, but not sure about the name)

[howyadoin]

What was that spider-related villain from the first Spectacular Spider-Man series? The Tarantula? (I can visualise the costume, but not sure about the name)Yeah, he was supposedly the "Captain America" of some South American country.

(In the Reaganesque sense of the Contras being the "moral equivalent of our founding fathers.")

[Hombre]

Stretching "great" by some margin:

Firestar? (never actually read anything with her in, but for some reason I think she is Hispanic)


Or possibly Firebird, a former associate of the West Coast Avengers.

[Lone Ranger]

File under 'El'

El Tigre - Silver Age X-Men villain
El Condor - Daredevil villain
El Jaguar - Daredevil villain
El Gato - Omega the Unknown Villain
El Toro - from waaaay back in Giant Man's TTA days

[MilkManX]

SunSpot(New Mutants/X-Force)

Ricardo?(New Mutants)


Thats all I can think of at the moment.


EDIT

Richtor!

Not Ricardo lol!

[Mike Kuypers]

File under 'El'

El Tigre - Silver Age X-Men villain
El Condor - Daredevil villain
El Jaguar - Daredevil villain
El Gato - Omega the Unknown Villain
El Toro - from waaaay back in Giant Man's TTA days

Don't forget Manuel Eloganto, a.k.a. Daredevil foe Matador. I'm sure InfoBroker won't. :evilsmile

[spoon_jenkins]

Or possibly Firebird, a former associate of the West Coast Avengers.
Yup, it's Firebrid a.k.a. Espirita. And the Wackos also had a hispanic member named Living Lightning. Plus, there's Silverclaw from the Busiek/Perez run.

One of the bigger villains is Diablo of Fantastic Four fame.

If folks want to get get obscure, La Bandera was a heroine from an earlier arc of Wolverine's first ongoing title.

[Gothos]

File under 'El'

El Tigre - Silver Age X-Men villain
El Condor - Daredevil villain
El Jaguar - Daredevil villain
El Gato - Omega the Unknown Villain
El Toro - from waaaay back in Giant Man's TTA days

That's an 'elluva lotta "Els."

Come to think of it, Batman round 'bout the 50s had two similar foes, El Bolo and El Papagayo.

Hmm, are there comic strip villains of note in this regard?

And did anyone (without my noticing) the current LAS CUCARACHAS strip?

I also want to say that there was some long-ago comic strip centered on a young Hispanic kid. I don't THINK I'm thinking of Dondi, though I have no idea what his ethnicity was.

[Lone Ranger]

I also want to say that there was some long-ago comic strip centered on a young Hispanic kid. I don't THINK I'm thinking of Dondi, though I have no idea what his ethnicity was.

Dondi was a WW2 orphan from Italy (I think) - but definitely somewhere in Europe.

[DDM]

Firebird (aka Es Spirita)
Sunspot
El Aguila
Jaguar
Toro (human torch powers)
Tarantula (Spider-Man villain)

[gentlesatirist]

...in this ethnic area that in the late 70s they had to dream up 2 characters that had never been in comics just so they could have a Hispanis character for their licensing efforts.

On the Super Friends cartoon, it was El Diablo (which of course means "the devil," although there was nothing remotely devilish about him). Then in a licensed kids book called "Super Dictionary" - an illustrated dictionary - they made a guy called "El Dragon." Again, just to have a hispanic.

Super Dictionary also had a black husband/wife detective duo named Ted and Teri Trapper. DC previously had used these two in a classroom reading series they put out in the 70s. I have vague memories of this - one of those read the book, answer the questions type things.

Anybody else remember?


- FE
Wickliffe OH

[Ryan K]

Rictor (New Mutants/X-Force)
Cecilia Reyes (X-Men)
El Guapo (X-statix)
Skin (Generation X)
Winddancer (New X-Men: Academy X)
Feral (X-Force)

Not the greatest characters but Hispanic nonetheless. Just thought I'd mention the x-characters yet to be mentioned. (Note: They're all dead or depowered now).

[C.O. Jones]

JLI's Green Flame is from Brazil.

[Agentum]

hehe, hard to get to 50.

Well 50 European superheroes would be very hard too i guess.

[Paul Newell]

First poster to mention Vibe gets an automatic pantsing.
What about Vibe's brother, Reverb?

[prince hal]

JLI's Green Flame is from Brazil.

Which makes her Portuguese, not Hispanic, I'm afraid. See how diffidult this is?