The classics are always the source from which modern works are inspired . Audiovisual culture is full of winks and tributes to works from the past, so if you don’t know them, you will always be missing something. Today we will show you a good list of classic comics that you should read yes or yes , both from our country and abroad.
Spanish comics
These are our proposals within Spanish comics.
Works by Carlos Giménez
We begin this list with Carlos Gimémez, one of the authors who has contributed the most to Spanish comics , since he has touched practically all genres and has been one of the creators who has fought the most for comics in our country.
Paracuellos his most important work. It is an autobiography of the childhood of Carlos Giménez himself, who spent his first years of life in a Falangist boarding school where orphaned children or children from disadvantaged families were welcomed. The stories of the children that appear in Paracuellos are real, although their identities are made up. Other very important works by this same author are Hom and Los Profesionales .
Galactic Tavern Stories
These comics were created by José María Beà in 1979, largely inspired by Star Wars . They were published in the 1984 magazine, and they tell anecdotes of different aliens on a space station. The stories are short, but always thought-provoking in each episode.
Captain Thunder
Captain Thunder is a medieval-style adventure comic inspired by The Warrior in the Mask . It was created by Víctor Mora and was published for the first time in 1956. This time was very marked by this theme, since in the United States Príncipe Valiente was published in parallel.
American newspaper comics
If you want to give US material a try, here are the best options.
Prince valiant
It was created in 1937 by Harold Foster and was published in full-page color Sunday strips in various newspapers in the United States. Stories based on the time of King Arthur are told with a very peculiar style. There are no speech bubbles; the text normally appears at the bottom of each panel, or in some area that the author left blank without coloring. Another genius of Foster is that the characters in the play age at the same rate as the publication .
Terry and the pirates
This adventure series tells the story of Terry Lee, a young man who travels to China to search for treasures with his tutor. The play was created by Milton Caniff in 1934, but was continued by George Wunder in 1946.
Rip kirby
It is a key work in the police genre . It was published in daily strips for more than 50 years , between 1946 and 1999.
Its creator was Alex Raymond , however, since 1956 it was the cartoonist John Prentice who continued the legacy of Raymond, who unfortunately died in a traffic accident.
Johnny hazard
We end this section with Johnny Hazard, an adventure play created by Frank Robbins and published in daily and weekly strips between 1944 and 1977. Both publications had separate plots.
Superheros
A classic, the world of superheroes.
Marvel
- Fantastic Four: The Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stages are the ones that start the Marvel Age of comics .
- Spider-Man : Spider-Man is a must-have in the world of comics, especially the Stan Lee and Ditko and Stan Lee and John Romita stages.
- The Avengers : specifically, the editions that comprise the stages of Roy Thomas and John Buscem a.
- Daredevil : Daredevil by Frank Miller and Daredevil Born Again (by Miller and David Mazzuchelli).
DC
- Batman : Batman: Return of the Lord of the Night (by Frank Miller) and Batman Year One (by Miller and Mazzuchelli).
- John Byrne’s Superman.
- Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Speaking of Moore, V for Vendetta is another essential work by this author, as well as The Thing in the Swamp .
- Ronin by Frank Miller.