The Phantom:
A Publishing History in Spain

by Bob Griffin and Rafa Avilés Rodríguez, with contributions from Chris Smith.

In Spain, The Phantom is known as El Hombre Enmascarado, which translates to "The Masked Man". He has proven to be an extremely popular comic book character over the years, and numerous publications have been devoted to him. Below is a basic and substantive list of the various Spanish Phantom publications. More detailed information about the comics printed between 1963 and 1971 (with cover scans) is available by clicking on the appropriate titles. If anyone has any further ammendments we would welcome their input.

Title:El Hombre Enmascarado
Publisher:Hispano Americana
Year:1941-1943
Artist:Moore
# of issues:105
Size:21cm x 32cm


Title:El Hombre Enmascarado (Ãlbum)
Publisher:Hispano Americana
Year:1943-1944
Artist:Moore
# of issues:8
Size:21cm x 32cm


Title:El Hombre Enmascarado
Publisher:Hispano Americana
Year:1949-1951
Artist:Moore
# of issues:40
Size:24cm x 17cm


Title:El Hombre Enmascarado
Publisher:Hispano Americana
Year:1952-1953
Artist:McCoy
# of issues:38
Size:12cm x 17cm


Title:Héroes Modernos, El Hombre Enmascarado
Publisher:Dólar
Year:1958-1959
Artist:Moore
# of issues:60
Size:21cm x 29cm
See below for further comment.


Title:Héroes Modernos, Serie O, El Hombre Enmascarado
Publisher:Dólar
Year:1960
Artist:Moore
# of issues:40
Size:21cm x 29cm
Remainders of this and the previous series of comics by Dólar were re-bound into volumes of differing size and sold during 1960. There were 12 monthly volumes of 92 pages entitled Album de Lujo (Deluxe Album), and 2 bimonthly volumes of 492 pages entitled Libro de Oro (Golden Books). These were not new comics and only contain previously printed material.


Title:Héroes Modernos, Serie A, El Hombre Enmascarado
Publisher:Dólar
Year:1963-1964
Artist:Barry & McCoy
# of issues:75
Size:21cm x 29cm


Title:Héroes Modernos, El Hombre Enmascarado
Publisher:Dólar
Year:1964
Artist:McCoy
# of issues:1 (special hardcover)
Size:14.5cm x 20cm


Title:Héroes Modernos, Novelas Gráficas
Publisher:Dólar
Year:1965
Artist:Barry
# of issues:7
Size:14.5cm x 21cm
This series rotated the adventures of various King Features characters. The Phantom appeared in issues #1, #9, #13, #19, #28, #34 and #40.


Title:Héroes del Cómic. El Hombre Enmascarado
Publisher:Buru Lan
Year:1971-1973
Artist:Moore & McCoy
# of issues:132
Size:22.5cm x 28cm
Buru Lan commenced this series with the 4th daily story "Little Tommy", and continued chronologically thereafter. Later they decided to go back and print the first 3 daily stories, and labelled them "Series O" in order to distinguish them from the regular series. In total there were 132 issues. Furthermore, every three months, remainders of these comics were re-bound into 248 page volumes and sold; there were 8 volumes in total. The same was done in 1976 with the re-release of 162 page volumes (7), and again in 1983 with 64 page volumes (4). These were not new comics and only contain previously printed material. This was basically a marketing strategy designed to get rid of the remainders.


Title:El Hombre Enmascarado
#11
#41
Publisher:Ediciones Vértice, 1st Series (Vol. 1)
Year:1974-1976
Artist:McCoy & Barry
# of issues:56
Size:28cm x 20cm


Title:El Hombre Enmascarado
#43
Publisher:Ediciones Vértice, 2nd Series (Vol. 2)
Year:1979-1980
Artist:McCoy & Barry
# of issues:43
Size:28cm x 20cm


Title:El Hombre Enmascarado
Publisher:Valenciana
Year:1980-1982
Artist:various Semic artists
# of issues:52 plus albums
Size:26cm x 18cm
These comics reprinted Phantom stories created by the team of writers and artists from Semic Press in Sweden. A regular fortnightly series of 52 issues (36 pages each) was published between 1980 and 1982. Some special "albums" were also released in 1980 (6 monthly issues of 102 pages) and 1981 (8 issues of 42 pages).


Title:El Hombre Enmascarado
#6
Publisher:Ediciones B.O.
Year:1981-1982
Artist:Moore
# of issues:6
Size:23.5cm x 31cm
Daily strips chronologically from 1936.


Title:Serie Clásicos, Pocket de Ases, El Hombre Enmascarado
Publisher:Editorial Bruguera
Year:1985
Artist:Barry
# of issues:1
Size:18.5cm x 13cm
This series included one title only of each character featured including Flash Gordon, Mandrake, etc. The single Phantom issue contained three stories: The Hydra, Weird Webs of Spidera, and The Golden People.


Title:Colección Norma Clásicos, Phantom, El Hombre Enmascarado
#8
Publisher:Norma Editorial
Year:1987
Artist:Barry
# of issues:3
Size:32cm x 24cm
Only numbers 8, 9,10 of this series featured the Phantom, and the first seven issues starred Johnny Hazard.


Title:El Hombre Enmascarado
#3
#67
Publisher:Ediciones B (TEBEOS, S:A.)
Year:1988-1992
Artist:Moore, McCoy, Barry
# of issues:74 (full colour)
Size:30cm x 21cm (#1 - #32) and
21cm x 30cm (#33 - #74)
An excellent full colour series published with the first 32 issues employing a portrait format to publish Sunday and daily strips of Sy Barry and the next 42 issues switching to a landscape format to publish Ray Moore and Wilson McCoy dailies. Remainders were re-released in 1991 compiled into at least 4 different 220 page volumes; these were not new comics and only contain previously printed material.


Title:El Hombre Enmascarado
Publisher:Comic Mam
Year:1988
Artist:Moore, McCoy
# of issues:8
Size:21cm x 32cm


Title:Phantom, El Hombre Enmascarado
Publisher:Euroclub Magerit, S.L.
Year:1988-present
Artist:Moore, McCoy, Barry
# of issues:>100, still being published
Size:32cm x 24cm


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Bryan Shedden / guran@deepwoods.org
Last Updated 25 August 1998