Toutain Editor, 1979.
106 pages in black and white. Album
generously sized paperback: 33.5 x 24 cms. Esteban Maroto
was between the late 60's and early 80's the great international reference of English comics. There were many other national artists at that time who succeeded abroad but by its nature, no doubt his was a case apart.
series ' 5 X INFINITY ' shuttle helped him to international stardom. The work had come to USA through a recessed Mexican version called "space Legionnaires' and U.S. professionals (which until then looked to European authors over his shoulder) hallucinated, it passed from hand to hand and were amazed at what was done across the ocean: The success was complete!
The victory of the series coincided with his disappearance. Maroto decided to conclude its work in science-fiction and begin a new journey in the graphic. For various reasons, including economic (charged thousand pesetas per page), I wanted to cast off and break all the above. To that end drafted a fantasy-heroic or as they call it in USA, sword and sorcery. The series would initially baptized with the name of 'Manly warrior. " The episodes subdivided into eight pages and the first chapter could be seen in the late evening paper Madrid ' Village', that problems with the censors would not complete its publication.
Their American success was that it started to rain bids and contracts from the U.S.. Since then this country would become the natural market of Esteban Maroto and work especially for the Warren magazines . The stories were coming to Spain in Black Dossier (in the case of Dax) and Vampus , and then Rufus , Vampirella ... Maroto everywhere: barbarians, warriors, lords and skeletons of horses, and wizards and gnomes in their forests and girls with and without clothes ... Mother! What a good time for comics readers. And almost everything in black and white (those stories could not be otherwise), with their floating hair and hairlines, thousands of little lines, scrapes, sponge, cloth bag, brush, pen, cane, rags, fingers, and more scrapes ... how wonderful.
'Manly warrior' mutate name for commercial reasons and would become 'the warrior Dax. " He had two editions in Spain and we consider the first ( Toutain), for printing and size, the best by far. Do not understand why it has not been re-released, it is a material that "sells itself" and the two previous editions are completely sold out long ago.
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