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success between 19651967 years, but its important to understand that Brazilianreaders were not yet acquainted with Broome's Green Lantern. The Raio Negrocomics showed the strange Homem-Lua (Moon-Man) by Gedeone Malagola too.

An interesting hero, even though he's a hero with an extravagant ball on his head

1966 saw the entry of Fantar the Atomic monster by Milton Mattos andEdmundo Rodrigues. Fantar was a giant creature who resembled the later ErikLarsen creation, Savage Dragon, as well as monsters of Japanese movies. But oneof the most interesting superhero from that age is Golden Guitar, published byGrana Company and scripted by Macedo A. Torres. Inspired by the musicalmovement called Jovem Guarda (literally, Young Guard, or moreidiomatically Young Generation or New Generation) which had singerRoberto Carlos as its greatest idol.

In similar fashion, the pop star Reanato Fortuna was the Golden Guitars alterego. He fought against crime with his electric guitar, which was able to emitpowerful laser rays. The Golden Age Brazilian Superheroes high pointhappened when the Marvel Super-Heroes animated cartoons series (by Grant-Ray-Laurence Company) began to appear on stations around the tropical countryin 1967. Publisher Adolfo Aizen put out Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Namor andCaptain America comic books (and some time later, Fantastic Four, Spider-Manand Daredevil, too) through his EBAL imprint. The Marvel Fever inspired other(and small) companies to publish their own characters such as*Bola de Fogo(Fireball). Hes only a poor carbon copy of the Human Torch;*Escorpio(Scorpion).Created by artist and writer Wilson Fernandes and editor Heli Lacerda

to Taika Company. The King Features accused Taikas Escorpio of being a carboncopy of the Phantom by Lee Falk, and threaten to sue. So, Lacerda contracted an

Argentinian artist, based in Brazil, Rodolfo Zalla, to redevelop the character as anAmazon Jungle defender. This was very good for the hero and his comic wasenjoyed by the readers for some time);*Spectro, by Juarez Odilon;*Super Heros,

by Edrel Company bullpen;*Morcego (Bat), by Wilso n Fernandes;*Homem-Fera(Beast-Man) by Rubens Cordeiro;*Judoka (Judo Fighter)was created by artistPedro Anisio in 1970 to substitute for Charltons Judomaster stories in ownmagazine, after the American company finished producing new material. His

book had a long run by EBAL, was great success and the hero starred in a moviearound 1973. Since then, this book has never again been published.*Velta, byEmir Ribeiro (Ribeiro was ghost-artist of Mike Deodato on Thor and WonderWoman comics in the 90s)*Ultrax by E. C. Nickel*Meteoro (The Meteor) byRoberto Guedes Hey my son! Meteoro is a high school student who gainedhis superhuman powers from mysterious energy contained within a tiny

meteorite, which had been sent to Earth by a representative of the UniversalConclave, a cosmic secret society. The first appearance of Meteoro took placein Meteoro # 1 (February, 1992), thus making it a part of the New Age of theBrazilian Superheroes.


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Postado por Lancelot s 13:58

Anyway, the most s ignificant were the heroes created by Eugnio Colonnese, anItalian-Brazilian artist living in the state of So Paulo since 1964. Colonnese is akind of Brazilian Jack Kirby not by his artistic style but because of his powerfulimagination and fast pencil. He produced several comic pages each month, withheroes such as*Mylar (the Mystery Man), a masked alien;*Superargo (Super-Argonaut), a secretagent and capoeira fighter (Capoeira being a form of dance developed by Africanslaves in Brazil, with the agility they thereby gained being used as part of theirresistance to their Portuguese owners; today, Capoeira is taught in schools as aform of martial arts);* Pele de Cobra (Snake Skin), an adventurous motorcycle-man;*Mirza (the Vampire-Woman bad girl). An interesting fact about Mirza isthat she appeared in comic books in 1967, two years before Vampirella made hermark on the comic scene; and finally,*X-Man (Yes! But its possible that his

creator, Eugenio Colonnese did not know anything about the Marvel mutants atthe time). Colonneses X-Man was the first Brazilian hero to star in a color story,in 1970. Until that time, Brazilian super-heroes had appeared only in black-and-white magazines.

With the oil crisis in 1973 and the expensive prices of paper, some smallcompanies closed their doors and the Brazilian Superhero comics ceased to exist.In the seventies and eighties the writers and artists immigrated to the horrormagazines: Calafrio (Chilling), Espektro (Spectre) and Pesadelo (Nightmare), orunderground comix such as Porrada! (Punch!), Circo (Circus) and Udrigrudi(Underground).In the 90s the New Age of the Brazilian Superheroes started,

but thats a su bject for another article.

Matria gentilmente cedida: Copyright Roberto Guedes. All rights reservedUm resumo sintico dos comics no Brasil, abordado pelo escritor, roteirista,editor, tradutor, pesquisador e ensasta Roberto Guedes, amplamente discutidono seu livro - A Saga dos Super-Heris Brasileiros. Visualisar esta matria eoutras de grande importncia para a HQBR: http://guedes-

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