History
Héctor Germán Oesterheld created two popular characters for the Misterix magazine, of the Abril publisher: Bull Rocket and Sergeant Kirk. He wrote novelizations of both comic books, and published them on his own, in a joint business with his brother Jorge. The success prompted him to start his own publishing house. He negotiated the characters with Cesare Civita, owner of Abril. It was arranged that Bull Rocket would stay in Misterix, written by new authors, and Oesterheld would take Kirk to his new publishing house, alongside the artist Hugo Pratt. [1]
Sergeant Kirk or Sgt. Kirk is the title and main character of a western comics series by Italian comic book creator Hugo Pratt and Argentine author Héctor Germán Oesterheld.
Hugo Eugenio Pratt was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2005.
The first comic books were the Comics anthologies Frontera and Hora Cero . The first was first published on April 1957, and the second on May 1957. Oesterheld wrote the most part of the scripts, either using his name or pseudonyms as "H. Sturgiss" or "C. de la Vega", and his brother wrote the rest, signing as "Jorge Mora". The anthologies were a success, and Frontera published new related magazines, "Suplemento Semanal Hora Cero", Hora Cero extra" and "Frontera extra". [1]
A comics anthologies, also known as a comic magazine, collect works in the medium of comics, typically from multiple series, and compiles them into an anthology or magazine. The comics in these anthologies range from comic strips that are too short for standalone publication to comic book chapters that are later compiled into collected comic book volumes.
Hora Cero was an Argentine comics magazine which ran between 1957 and 1963. The magazine was established by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and his brother in 1957. The publisher was Editorial Frontera. It was part of the Golden Age of Argentine Comics. The most successful of its published series was El Eternauta. The final issue of Hora Cero appeared in 1963.
Some comics included in the anthologies soon become successful enough to have their own runs, such as Ernie Pike and Ticonderoga by Pratt, Randall the Killer by Arturo del Castillo, Sherlock Time by Alberto Breccia, Joe Zonda and Rolo, el marciano adoptivo by Francisco Solano López. The weekly publication El Eternauta , by Oesterheld and Solano López, was first published on September 4, 1957, at "Hora Cero semanal", and lasted until 1959. [1]
Ernie Pike is a comics series written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and originally drawn by Hugo Pratt, starring a World War II and Korean War reporter. It was first published in the magazine "Hora Cero" in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1957. The reporter, loosely based on the real reporter Ernie Pyle, acts as a narrator of stories, without being directly involved in them. Such stories do not narrate real battles or exploits of noteworthy military people, being instead tragic stories of unknown soldiers, made up by the author. Oesterheld worked again with the character during the time of the Vietnam War, and Ricardo Barreiro used it for a brief story about the Falklands War.
Alberto Breccia was an Uruguay-born Argentine cartoonist. His son is the noted cartoonist Enrique Breccia.
Francisco Solano López was an Argentine comics artist. He was the co-creator of El Eternauta.
Frontera decayed in 1959, as most artists were hired to work in Europe. Frontera fell into bankruptcy in 1959, and the magazines were taken by the publisher Emilio Ramírez to pay debts. They were published until 1963. [1]
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