THE FIRST PEPIN!

Pepin is about to enter to the Book of Guinness World Records!

7500 issues were published from 1936 to 1958!! in the early 50's as a daily comic Pepin was
selling 1,000,000 (yes, one million!) copies a day!! under Alfonso Ontiveros direction.

1932:
ADELAIDO 1
First Mexican Comic Book almost devoted to a single character.

Main Characters of the year:

Adelaido
Torzón
Aguila blanca

1933:
SUCESOS PARA TODOS
Weekly magazine of art, news and culture.
Begins publishing comics this year.

Main Characters of the year:

Simplón Colilla

1934:
PAQUIN 1 (29 Feb.)
First successful Mexican comic book. Weekly

SUCESOS PARA TODOS

"Las calles de México" begins, first non-comic story.

1935:
PAQUITO 1 (Mar)
Second successful Mexican Comic book. Weelky.

Main Characters of the year:

General Bom-Bazo
Dr. Boris
Dr. Benton

1936:
PEPIN 1 (4 Mar)
Third successful Mexican Comic Book. Weekly. Eventually,
this title became one of the most poular and important of
the golden age of Mexican comics.

MUJERES Y DEPORTES 137 (7 Mar)

First appeareance of "Los Supersabios", one of the most
famous Mexican Comics.

PAQUITA 1 (Jul)
Magazine for women. Originally published only foreign comic
strips translated into spanish. Mexican comics begins with No. 30.

TI-TO 1 (Ago.)
First Mexican comic book reprinting an Amercan Comic Book
(paradox: the American comic book used was Tip-Top, which
reprinted Newspaper strips)

CHAMACO 1 (10 Oct.)

Along with Pepin, This Comic Book was the most succesful of almost
two decades.

JUEVES DE EXCELSIOR
This year begins a 16-pages of comics section

ARTISTAS UNIDOS
Kind of a Syndicate, founded by Ramon Valdiosera.

Main Characters of the year:

La Sombra
Frank
Los Supersabios
Pancho Villa
Adelita
Monje Negro
Mula Maicera
El Charro Negro

1937:
PAQUITA 30
(29 Ene 37)
Mexican comics begins. Here appeared the first work by Jose G. Cruz.

Main Characters of the year:

Caballero Rojo
Virola y Piolita
Dr. Azor
El Búho
Fantomas
Drake
El Hombre Invisible
El Vampiro Tenebroso
Nick Carter
1938:

PAQUITO (Aug)
This weekly comic book introduced Superman to Mexico, direct from the
pages of Action Comics 1

CHAMACO CHICO ( 7 Oct )

The weekly Comic Book Chamaco is complemented with an extra edition,
of small size.

Main Characters of the year:

Máximo Tops

1939:
ALBUM PAQUIN
Series of albums, each one devoted to a single character.

TAMEZ FEATURES SYNDICATE

Jesús H. Támez creates this syndicate, distributor of Mexican Comic
Strips.

PEPIN 290
Gabriel Vargas introduces Los Superlocos featuring one
of the most important and remembered characters of all times:
Jilemon Metralla y Bomba.

Main Characters of the year:

Superlocos ( Jilemon Metralla.)
Corazón del Norte ( Alan Baker )
Rolando el Rabioso
Aguila Roja
Caballero Azul