- Capitán Trueno
El Capitán Trueno (lit. "Captain Thunder") is the hero of a series of Spanish
comic book s, created in1956 by the writerVíctor Mora and illustrated mainly byMiguel Ambrosio Zaragoza (Ambrós). The comics were published continuously between 1956 and 1968, eventually becoming the most popular Spanish hero comic of all times: at its height it sold more than 170,000 copies every week.El Capitán Trueno is a 12th-century
knight-errant , assisted by his faithful companions the cunning adolescent Crispín and the huge gourmandizer Goliath. His eternal dame is Sigrid ofThule , an energeticViking princess who takes part in many of the adventures of the trio. In successive books, Capitán Trueno and his friends travel the whole world enforcing justice and freedom against bullies and tyrants, never using more violence than necessary.Part of the comic books have also been published in several
Latin America n countries,Greece ,Portugal , andFrance .The series suffered some limited
censorship during the dictatorship. Censors were concerned, for example, that Capitán Trueno and Sigrid were traveling around the world unburdened by matrimonial ties ("vínculos matrimoniales"). [http://www.capitan-trueno.com/mora.html]He was sung about by
Asfalto , in their eponymous 1978 debut album and by Spanish pop veteranMiguel Bose in his song "El Hijo del Capitan Trueno" (Captain Thunder's Son) from the album Sereno released in 2001.External links
*es icon [http://www.capitan-trueno.com/ El Capitán Trueno on-line]
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