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Amapola Negra “The Last Mission”
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38 x 24 cm (14.96 x 9.45 in.)
Added on 10/3/25
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Before the last page of the complete series of "Amapola Negra", Historia Belica with a script by Hector German Oesterheld and drawings by Francisco Solano Lopez, the same scriptwriter and artist of "El Eternauta", published in the magazine "Hora Cero" from its number 15 of July 15, 1958 until the Twelfth Mission published in "Hora Cero" number 29 of September 29, 1959. This story shares not only the authors of "El Eternauta", but also a similar concept; from the detailed construction of the characters, each one has a story behind them; to the construction of the "collective", Juan Salvo's famous phrase that no one is saved alone, is not one of the best known works of the Argentine duo but it is undoubtedly a masterpiece of Argentine history in its golden period.
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About Francisco Solano Lopez
Francisco Solano López (October 26, 1928 – August 12, 2011) was a comics artist. Acknowledged as one of the most influential Argentine comics artists, he was best known as the co-creator of El Eternauta.
López began his career in 1953 working for the publishing house Columba where he illustrated the series Perico y Guillerma. Working for Editorial Abril he met Héctor Germán Oesterheld, assigned to illustrate his series Bull Rocket for the magazine Misterix. They collaborated on the series Pablo Maran and Uma-Uma, before joining to start Oesterheld's publishing house Editorial Frontera. For the Frontera first publication of the monthly Hora Cero, the team produced the series Rolo el marciano adoptivo and El Héroe. López also alternated as artist on the Ernie Pike series with Hugo Pratt, Jorge Moliterni and José Antonio Muñoz. On September 4, 1957 in the publication of Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal, the science-fiction series El Eternauta made its first appearance.
