Paquito
| Paquito | |
 issue 18 | |
| Country/language: |  Mexico / Spanish
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|---|---|
| Publishing company: | Editorial Juventud/ Editorial Panamericana |
| Publishing years: | 1935-1978 |
| Issues: | 5000 (?) |
| Format: | 27×17/ 20×13 cm, b/w & color |
Issue overview
Regular series
Paquito was a Mexican comic book published from 1935 to early 1950s, first by Editorial Juventud S.A. then later Editorial Panamericana S.A..
Most sources state that the first issue was published in March[footnotes 1] 1936, but it is possible that this is not entirely correct. When you study the covers you can find on the internet, you see that the first 52 issues have año I printed on the covers, and from number 53 it says año II. It is known that issue 55 was released on Tuesday April 28 1936 and that the series was a weekly publication at this time. The last issue in volume I is the issue 52 released on Tuesday April 7, 1936. Going backwards 52 weeks brings the date April 16 1935 as the most likely publication date for the first issue.
Closer to issue 88 (December 15, 1936) than issue 75 (September 15, 1936) the series became biweekly. On the covers the text alternates between weekly and biweekly a period like; weekly: issues before 102 then 105, 107, 115, 117, 127, 133; biweekly: issues 103, 110, 113, 119, 121, 123 (ends the volume II run ?). The third volume starts about mid April 1937, but the text año III disappears from the covers and is only printed on the inside of the magazine.
Initially, the book featured a mix of comics in every issue. It quickly gained popularity and about issue 1100 (1944) it was published seven days a week. Among the comics published in Paquito were "Superman", "Batman" (the first time these characters appeared in Mexico), "The Saint", "Brick Bradford", "Popeye", "The Phantom", "Felix the Cat" and "Mandrake".
In Paquito Mandrake was known as "El Mago Maravilla". When "Mandrake" began in Paquito, the stories were published in serialiazed form. Usually a weekly run of strips in only one of the week edition. Mandrake rarely appeared on the covers of these issues.
Interesting covers
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issue 48
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issue 55
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issue 58
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issue 65
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issue 66
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issue 101
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issue 112
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issue 129
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issue 199
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issue 369
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issue 380
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issue 423
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issue 492
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issue 679
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issue 1246
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issue 2078 Bis
Mandrake cover
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Album with complete stories.
Mandrake stories (in regular series)
This list is incomplete - you can help MandrakeWiki by expanding it.
| # | Original story title | Start in issue | End in issue | Examples of "Paquito" issues or comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | "The Werewolf" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | see # 55, cover from November 13, 1935 daily strip panel |
| 6 | "The Return of the Clay Camel" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | Example # 64: April 1936 daily strips |
| 7 | "The Slave Traders of Tygandi" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | see # 101, cover from October 26, 1936 daily strip panel |
| 8 | "Mandrake in the Lost World" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | see # 112, cover from January 1, 1937 daily strip panel / see too: # 129, cover from March 17, 1937 daily strip panel |
| 9 | "In the Cobra's Grip" | (# ? ) | (# ?) | Example # 167: August 1937 daily strip |
| 3 | "The Monster of Tanov Pass" | (# ? ) | (# 178) | Example # 178: June 15, 1935 daily strip panel |
| 4 | "Saki, the Clay Camel" | (# 178) | (# ?) | Example # 178: : June 17, 1935 daily strip panel |
| 10 | "Mandrake in America" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | see # 199, cover from December 18, 1937 daily strip panel |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (unknown stories) | |
| 17 | "The Deep South" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | Example # 339: April 17 to 22, 1939 daily strips |
| 18 | "Mandrake in Cockaigne" | (# ?) | (# ?) | Example # 363: July 13 to 15, 1939 daily strips |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (unknown stories) | |
| 21 | "The Museum Mystery" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | Example # 445: March 4 to 6, 1940 daily strips |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (unknown stories) | |
| 22 | "The Octopus Ring" | (# ?) | (# ?) | Example # 495: September 16 to 18, 1940 daily strips |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | ||
| 25 | "The Great Grando" | (# ?) | (# ?) | Example # 541: August 4 to 9, 1941 daily strips |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (several stories) | |
| 26 | "Lothar the Champ" | (# ?) | (# ?) | Example # 593: July 1942 daily strips |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (maybe story D# 27: "The Rumor Factory") | |
| 28 | "Baron Kord" | (# ?) | (# ?) | Example # 619: October 5 to 7, 1942 daily strips |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (several stories) | |
| 34 | "The Ice Lady" | (# 1330) | (# ? ) | Example # 1330: first panels of story / colorized |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (unknown stories) | |
| 41 | "Felina" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | Example # 1799: panels beginning October 1946 |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (unknown stories) | |
| 49 | "The Big Tyme" | (# 2078 Bis) | Example # 2078 Bis: story beginning (complete story ?) |
- See details about some "Paquito" regular issues: Paquito 64, Paquito 125, Paquito 167, Paquito 203, Paquito 339, Paquito 363, Paquito 397, Paquito 445, Paquito 541, Paquito 593, Paquito 619, Paquito 1799, Paquito 2078 Bis.
- Note: the Mandrake cover of issue # 65 is from the sixth panel of the February 23, 1936 Sunday page (story: "Land of the Little People"). However as only daily stories were published in "Paquito" issues, it is doubtful that story really was published in the magazine.
Notes
- ↑ Probably due to the registration of the magazine as printed on the inside: Registrado como articulo de Segunda Clase en la Administración de Correos de México, con fecha 23 de marzo de 1935.
Series "Paquito presenta"
By the early 1950s the magazine was splitt into several sub series with a new numbering. Each sub series was given a separate prefix followed by a separate sequential numbering: "El Fantasma" 10xxx (54 (?) issues), "El Mago Maravilla" 11xxx (53 (?) issues), "Popeye" 12xxx (7 (?) issues), "El Gato Garabato" 13xxx (3 (?) issues), "Juanito" 14xxx (20 (?) issues), "Brick Bradford/Kihoga" 15xxx (50 (?) issues), "La Familia Burrón" 16xxx + 17xxx (1387 (?) issues), "Sombras" 17xxx ((?) issues), "Corazón del Norte" 18xxx (26 (?) issues). Hence, Paquito #11001 published in 1952 was the first Paquito issue dedicated solely to "Mandrake".
El Mago Maravilla
- One issue with Mandrake seems to be from the Serie 13xxx (="El Gato Garabato")
View
- About "Cartas de la Loteria de Paquito": see details on Memorabilia page.
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Cartas de la Loteria de Paquito
External links
| Mandrake publications in Mexico
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