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'''''El Tony''''' was published by [[Editorial Columba]] from 1928 to mid 2000.  
'''''El Tony''''' was published by [[Editorial Columba]] from 1928 to mid 2000.  
{{Series
|Title= El Tony
|image= [[Image:El-Tony-001.jpg|200 px]]
|Sample= First issue
|Country= [[Image:mini_argentina.gif]] Argentina / Spanish
|Publisher= [[Editorial Columba]]
|Date= 1928 to 1966 (first series) / ? to mid 2000 (second series)
|Issues= 2004
|Format= b/w
|}}


==History==
== History ==
'''''El Tony''''' was launched by brothers Ramón and Claudio Columba on September 26, 1928. Aimed primarily for children, containing cartoons, educational and literary adaptations. Gradually the contents were turning to teen and adult audiences. The initial print run was 10,000 copies, reaching 300,000 weekly.  
'''''El Tony''''' was launched by brothers Ramón and Claudio Columba on September 26, 1928. It was primarily aimed for children, containing cartoons, educational and literary adaptations. Gradually the contents were turning to teen and adult audiences. The initial print run was 10,000 copies, reaching 300,000 weekly at its peak.  


The US newspaper strip reprints; "[[Mandrake the Magician]]", "[[The Phantom]]", "Secret Agent X-9", "Tarzan", "Batman" and on. National artists were incorporated gradually to encompass almost all the material presented.
It contains strip reprints of US comics such as "[[Mandrake the Magician]]", "[[The Phantom]]", "Secret Agent X-9", "Tarzan", "Batman" and on. National artists were incorporated gradually to encompass almost all the material presented.
Until mid-1940 the strips were presented as separate panels with text under them.
    
    
"El Tony" have supplements in various formats and versions like; ''El Tony''''' Album''', ''El Tony''''' Extracolor''', ''El Tony''''' Super Color''', ''El Tony''''' Todo Color''', ''El Tony''''' Color''', ''El Tony''''' Anuarios''' and ''El Tony''''' Superanuales'''. In some cases the variants numbering starting from number 1.
"El Tony" have supplements in various formats and versions like; ''El Tony''''' Album''', ''El Tony''''' Extracolor''', ''El Tony''''' Super Color''', ''El Tony''''' Todo Color''', ''El Tony''''' Color''', ''El Tony''''' Anuarios''' and ''El Tony''''' Superanuales'''. In some cases the variants numbering starting from number 1.


The first annual album, released in February 1939 with 76 pages, the central and almost exclusive content was the first Mandrake story: "The Cobra". 


=== Daily strips stories ===
{{IncompList}}
{| {{table}}
!U.S.# !! Original story title !! Start !! End !! Examples of Daily strips in issues and/or comments !! Publishing years
|-
|-
| 1 || "[[The Cobra]]" || (# ? ) || (# ?) || # 355 || 1935
|-
| 2 || "[[The Hawk (Mandrake Meets Narda)]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 371 || 1935
|-
| 3 || "[[The Monster of Tanov Pass]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 401: strips from May 29 to 31, 1935. || 1936
|-
| 6 || "[[The Return of the Clay Camel]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 451: strips from June 19 to July 2, 1936. || 1937
|-
| 7 || "[[The Slave Traders of Tygandi]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 462: strips from September 23 to 26, 1936. || 1937
|-
| 9 || "[[In the Cobra's Grip]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 514: strips September 1 to 6, 1937. || 1938
|-
| 10 || "[[Mandrake in America]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 527: : strips from December 4 to 8, 1937. || 1938
|-
| 16 || "[[Visitors from Space]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 557: : strips from December 8 to 13, 1938 || 1939
|-
| 15 || "[[Mandrake in Love]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 589: strips from November 3 to 11, 1938 || 1940
|-
| 20 || "[[The Mountain Bandits]]" || (# ?) || # 616 || # 616: strips from January 18 to ?, 1940. || 1940
|-
| 21 || "[[The Museum Mystery]]" || # 616 || (# ?) || # 618: strips from January 31 to February ?, 1940. || 1940
|-
| 22 || "[[The Octopus Ring]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 645: strips from September 10 to 13, 1940. || 1941
|-
| 23 || "[[Dr Griff's Invention]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 661: strips from January 15 to 21, 1941. || 1941
|-
| 18 || "[[Mandrake in Cockaigne]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 670: strips from June 6 to 10, 1939. || 1941
|-
| 17 || "[[The Deep South]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 685: strips from March 3 to ?, 1939. || 1941
|-
| 26 || "[[Lothar the Champ]]" || # 704 || (# ?) || # 724: strips from March 27 to April 2, 1941. ||  1942
|-
| 32 || "[[Doctor Congo]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 845: strips from July 24 to 31, 1944. ||  1944-1945
|-
| 33 || "[[The Mirror People]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 857: strips from October 16 to 21, 1944. ||  1945
|-
| 37 || "[[The Sleeping Beauty]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 924: strips from December 29, 1945 to January3, 1946. ||  1946
|-
| 38 || "[[Pleasant Valley]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 935: strips from March 3 to 12, 1946. ||  1946
|-
| 39 || "[[Medusa]]" || (# ?) || # 946 || # 946: strips from May 31 to June 1, 1946. || 1946
|-
| 40 || "[[The Jinx]]" || # 946 || (# ?) || # 946: strips from June 3 to 6, 1946. || 1946
|-
| 41 || "[[Felina]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 960: strips from September 17 to 23, 1946. || 1947
|-
| 43 || "[[HRH Cuddles]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 991: strips from May 9 to 15, 1947. ||  1947
|-
| 49 || "[[The Big Tyme]]" || # 1062 || (# ?) || # 1062: strips from October 4 to 9, 1948. ||  1949
|-
| 60 || "[[Swami|Swami]]" || (# ?) || # 1180 || # 1180: March 16 and 17, 1951 strips. || 1951
|-
| 61 || "[[Lenore (story)|Lenore]]" || # 1180 || (# ?) || # 1180: strips from 19 to 22, 1951. || 1951
|-
| 63 || "[[The Face Mystery]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 1201: strips from July 28 to August 2, 1951. || 1951
|-
| 75 || "[[The Haunted Slope]]" || #1333 || #1340 || El Tony # 1333 dated May 5, 1954 to # 1340 dated June 26, 1954 || 1954
|-
| 76 || "[[The Royal Suitor]]" || #1341 || #1356 || El Tony # 1341 dated June 30, 1954 to # 1356 dated October 13, 1954 || 1954
|-
| 82 || "[[Return of the Clay Camel (1955 story)]]" || # 1407 || (# ?) || # 1408: strips from May27 to June 2, 1955. || 1955
|-
| 22 || "[[The Octopus Ring]]" || (# ?) || # 1438 || (second run, see upper) # 1435: strips from November 21 to 26, 1940 || 1956
|-
| 23 || "[[Dr Griff's Invention]]" || # 1439 || # 1452 || (second run, see upper) # 1443: strips from January 20 to 23, 1941. || 1956
|-
| 83 || "[[U-Hunt]]" || (# 1453) || # 1458 || # 1454: strips from July 29 to 30, 1955. || 1956
|-
| 86 || "[[The New Neighbors]]" || # 1458 || (# ?) || # 1458: last strips of ''U-Hunt'' and first strips of ''The New Neighbors'' stories. || 1956
|-
| 96 || "[[Employment Agency]]" || (# ?) || (# ?) || # 1586: strips from March 17 to 27, 1958. || 1959
|-
|}
nb: until mid-1940, the stories are presented with only a narration under separate panels (no speech balloons).
{| {{table}}
!U.S.# !! Original story title !! Spanish title !! Issues "Album de El Tony" !! Comments !! Publishing years
|-
| 131 || "[[The UFO]]" || "El plato volador" || [[Album de El Tony 199|''Album de El Tony'' #199]] || (Complete story) || 1969
|-
|}
=== Sunday pages stories ===
{{IncompList}}
{| {{table}}
!U.S.# !! Original story title !! Spanish title !! Issues "Album de El Tony" !! Comments !! Publishing date
|-
| 42 || "[[Fear Island]]" || (no title) || [[Album de la revista El Tony 1954 November|''Album de El Tony'']] || (Complete story) || November 1954
|-
|}
=== Early issues with Mandrake and various views ===
==== Gallery ====
<gallery>
Image:El-Tony-355.jpg|''top of cover issue #355, 07-1935 / story "[[The Cobra (Daily story 1934)]]"''
Image:El-Tony-376.jpg|''top of cover issue #376, 12-1935 / story "[[The Hawk (Mandrake Meets Narda)]]"''
Image:El-Tony-514-cover.jpg|''cover 1938, details see : [[El Tony 514|''El Tony'' #514]]''
Image:El-Tony-527.jpg|''a specific presentation''
Image:El-Tony-592.jpg
Image:El-Tony-670.jpg|''full cover 1941''
Image:El-Tony-1201.jpg|''cover 1201, details see : [[El Tony 1201|''El Tony'' #1201]]''
Image:El Tony 1586.jpg|''cover 1586, details see : [[El Tony 1586|''El Tony'' #1586]]''
Image:El-Tony.frame.jpg|''company name and adress''
Image:El-Tony-514-a.jpg|''inner page of issue #514 / July 27, 1938''
Image:El-Tony-514-b.jpg|''inner page of issue #514 / July 27, 1938''
Image:El-Tony-514.jpg|''issue #514 / July 27, 1938 / Mandrake pages''
Image:Juego El Tony-01.jpg|''Game'' / see [[Memorabilia]], section "Board Games"
</gallery>
==== Album de El Tony / Regular series ====
From 1953 to 1973, "Editorial Columba" published a parallel regular series entitled "Album de El Tony" (series with 433 issues). Each issue contains complete stories of American comics (such as "Johnny Hazard", "Paul Temple", "Flash Gordon", "Jeff Cobb", "Buz Sawyer", "Big Ben Bolt"...) as well as Argentinian comics. From the issue #201 the subtitle "Extraordinario" - becoming "Extracolor" at the end of the series -appears on the covers.
<gallery>
Image:Album-de-El-Tony-1954-11.jpg|[[Album de la revista El Tony 1954 November|''Album de El Tony'' <br>1954, November]] (album # 8)
Image:Album-de-El-Tony-1958-05.jpg|[[Album de la revista El Tony 1958 May|''Album de El Tony'' <br>1958, May]] (album # 27)
Image:Album-de-El-Tony-195.jpg|[[Album de El Tony 195|''Album de El Tony'' #195]]
Image:Album-de-El-Tony-199.jpg|[[Album de El Tony 199|''Album de El Tony'' #199]]
Image:Album-de-El-Tony-200.jpg|[[Album de El Tony 200|''Album de El Tony'' #200]]
Image:Album-de-El-Tony-201.jpg|[[Album de El Tony 201|''Album de El Tony'' #201]]
</gallery>
{{Argentina}}
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Latest revision as of 09:04, 21 August 2024

El Tony was published by Editorial Columba from 1928 to mid 2000.

El Tony
El-Tony-001.jpg
First issue
Country/language: Mini argentina.gif Argentina / Spanish
Publishing company: Editorial Columba
Publishing years: 1928 to 1966 (first series) / ? to mid 2000 (second series)
Issues: 2004
Format: b/w


History

El Tony was launched by brothers Ramón and Claudio Columba on September 26, 1928. It was primarily aimed for children, containing cartoons, educational and literary adaptations. Gradually the contents were turning to teen and adult audiences. The initial print run was 10,000 copies, reaching 300,000 weekly at its peak.

It contains strip reprints of US comics such as "Mandrake the Magician", "The Phantom", "Secret Agent X-9", "Tarzan", "Batman" and on. National artists were incorporated gradually to encompass almost all the material presented. Until mid-1940 the strips were presented as separate panels with text under them.

"El Tony" have supplements in various formats and versions like; El Tony Album, El Tony Extracolor, El Tony Super Color, El Tony Todo Color, El Tony Color, El Tony Anuarios and El Tony Superanuales. In some cases the variants numbering starting from number 1.

The first annual album, released in February 1939 with 76 pages, the central and almost exclusive content was the first Mandrake story: "The Cobra".

Daily strips stories

This list is incomplete - you can help MandrakeWiki by expanding it.

U.S.# Original story title Start End Examples of Daily strips in issues and/or comments Publishing years
1 "The Cobra" (# ? ) (# ?) # 355 1935
2 "The Hawk (Mandrake Meets Narda)" (# ?) (# ?) # 371 1935
3 "The Monster of Tanov Pass" (# ?) (# ?) # 401: strips from May 29 to 31, 1935. 1936
6 "The Return of the Clay Camel" (# ?) (# ?) # 451: strips from June 19 to July 2, 1936. 1937
7 "The Slave Traders of Tygandi" (# ?) (# ?) # 462: strips from September 23 to 26, 1936. 1937
9 "In the Cobra's Grip" (# ?) (# ?) # 514: strips September 1 to 6, 1937. 1938
10 "Mandrake in America" (# ?) (# ?) # 527: : strips from December 4 to 8, 1937. 1938
16 "Visitors from Space" (# ?) (# ?) # 557: : strips from December 8 to 13, 1938 1939
15 "Mandrake in Love" (# ?) (# ?) # 589: strips from November 3 to 11, 1938 1940
20 "The Mountain Bandits" (# ?) # 616 # 616: strips from January 18 to ?, 1940. 1940
21 "The Museum Mystery" # 616 (# ?) # 618: strips from January 31 to February ?, 1940. 1940
22 "The Octopus Ring" (# ?) (# ?) # 645: strips from September 10 to 13, 1940. 1941
23 "Dr Griff's Invention" (# ?) (# ?) # 661: strips from January 15 to 21, 1941. 1941
18 "Mandrake in Cockaigne" (# ?) (# ?) # 670: strips from June 6 to 10, 1939. 1941
17 "The Deep South" (# ?) (# ?) # 685: strips from March 3 to ?, 1939. 1941
26 "Lothar the Champ" # 704 (# ?) # 724: strips from March 27 to April 2, 1941. 1942
32 "Doctor Congo" (# ?) (# ?) # 845: strips from July 24 to 31, 1944. 1944-1945
33 "The Mirror People" (# ?) (# ?) # 857: strips from October 16 to 21, 1944. 1945
37 "The Sleeping Beauty" (# ?) (# ?) # 924: strips from December 29, 1945 to January3, 1946. 1946
38 "Pleasant Valley" (# ?) (# ?) # 935: strips from March 3 to 12, 1946. 1946
39 "Medusa" (# ?) # 946 # 946: strips from May 31 to June 1, 1946. 1946
40 "The Jinx" # 946 (# ?) # 946: strips from June 3 to 6, 1946. 1946
41 "Felina" (# ?) (# ?) # 960: strips from September 17 to 23, 1946. 1947
43 "HRH Cuddles" (# ?) (# ?) # 991: strips from May 9 to 15, 1947. 1947
49 "The Big Tyme" # 1062 (# ?) # 1062: strips from October 4 to 9, 1948. 1949
60 "Swami" (# ?) # 1180 # 1180: March 16 and 17, 1951 strips. 1951
61 "Lenore" # 1180 (# ?) # 1180: strips from 19 to 22, 1951. 1951
63 "The Face Mystery" (# ?) (# ?) # 1201: strips from July 28 to August 2, 1951. 1951
75 "The Haunted Slope" #1333 #1340 El Tony # 1333 dated May 5, 1954 to # 1340 dated June 26, 1954 1954
76 "The Royal Suitor" #1341 #1356 El Tony # 1341 dated June 30, 1954 to # 1356 dated October 13, 1954 1954
82 "Return of the Clay Camel (1955 story)" # 1407 (# ?) # 1408: strips from May27 to June 2, 1955. 1955
22 "The Octopus Ring" (# ?) # 1438 (second run, see upper) # 1435: strips from November 21 to 26, 1940 1956
23 "Dr Griff's Invention" # 1439 # 1452 (second run, see upper) # 1443: strips from January 20 to 23, 1941. 1956
83 "U-Hunt" (# 1453) # 1458 # 1454: strips from July 29 to 30, 1955. 1956
86 "The New Neighbors" # 1458 (# ?) # 1458: last strips of U-Hunt and first strips of The New Neighbors stories. 1956
96 "Employment Agency" (# ?) (# ?) # 1586: strips from March 17 to 27, 1958. 1959

nb: until mid-1940, the stories are presented with only a narration under separate panels (no speech balloons).

U.S.# Original story title Spanish title Issues "Album de El Tony" Comments Publishing years
131 "The UFO" "El plato volador" Album de El Tony #199 (Complete story) 1969

Sunday pages stories

This list is incomplete - you can help MandrakeWiki by expanding it.

U.S.# Original story title Spanish title Issues "Album de El Tony" Comments Publishing date
42 "Fear Island" (no title) Album de El Tony (Complete story) November 1954


Early issues with Mandrake and various views

Gallery

Album de El Tony / Regular series

From 1953 to 1973, "Editorial Columba" published a parallel regular series entitled "Album de El Tony" (series with 433 issues). Each issue contains complete stories of American comics (such as "Johnny Hazard", "Paul Temple", "Flash Gordon", "Jeff Cobb", "Buz Sawyer", "Big Ben Bolt"...) as well as Argentinian comics. From the issue #201 the subtitle "Extraordinario" - becoming "Extracolor" at the end of the series -appears on the covers.



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Fantasía • El Fantasma • El Gorrión • Gran Bonete • El Libro de la Historieta • Libro de Oro - El Fantasma • Pif-Paf • Album Pif-Paf • Ra-Ta-Plán • Selecciones Graficas • Sandokan • Super Sandokan • Super Album de la Historieta • Tabú Extra • El Tony

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