Mexico

CEP 298

Spanish comic book on Pancho Villa, 1969. (Mexico). B

Price: $90.00

WA 046WA 046Complete sets of 64 cards of El Coyote, a 19th century Zorro, born outside Los Angeles and champion of the Spanish community. In all, 6 card sets were published in Spain in the 1940’s and 1950’s: El Coyote, La Sombre del Coyote, La Vuelta del Coyote, Hurracan Sobre Monterrey, El Valle de la Muerto, El Coyote Accorralado. I have one complete sets and am working on completing the others. M B

Price $600.00 each set

Note: (from Wikipedia) El Coyote (The Coyote) is the name of a fictional character very similar to Zorro, although acting 100 years later. He first appeared in the novel El Coyote (1944) by Jose Mallorqui. Between 1944 and 1953 El Coyote appeared in 192 pulp-like novels. El Coyote's real name is César de Echague and he is a rich man living at a ranch called San Antonio outside of Los Angeles. The novels cover adventures from 1846 until circa 1875. Cesar was inspired by a masked female actress and by the Zorro legend when he started operating as El Coyote in 1846. Coyote protects the original Spanish community of California from the Anglo Americans. He was born in Los Angeles between 1826 and 1830. He left for Havana as a youngster (around 1845) and "officially" returned in December 1851 (although operating as Coyote in California several times before that). Cesar's sister Beatriz was born in 1833 - she married ex-Washington resident Edmond Greene (both knew of Cesars double identities). His first wife, - Leonore de Acevedo (1832 – 1857), gave him a son Cesar Jr., (nicknamed El Cuervo - The Raven - from 1873) in 1851, after which time Cesar left Los Angeles again, for several years, but returned in 1865 (although he secretly worked in America as Coyote after only a few years abroad). The wealthy Guadelupe - Lupe/Lupita Martinez - later de Torres (in 1872), was born around 1835 and married Cesar in 1870. Their child Leonorin as well as foster child Eduardito (Gomez de la Mata) were born in 1871. Ricardo Yesares (Coyote's helper for many years from 1865) was born in 1834. The Lugones brothers and the Indian woman Adelia helped Coyote from the very beginning. Coyote's closest friend from 1865 was Cesar's servant, the deaf Indian Matias Alberes. In later novels gunman Mario Lujan helped Coyote several times. From around 1873 the skilled Indian Pedro Bienvenido became Coyote's foremost friend and Cesar's servant.

CEP 296