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
issue 48
Mandrake cover
issue 55
Mandrake cover
issue 58
Mandrake cover
issue 65
Mandrake cover
issue 66
Mandrake cover
issue 101
Mandrake cover
issue 112
Mandrake cover
issue 129
Mandrake cover
issue 199
Mandrake cover
issue 369
Mandrake cover
issue 380
Mandrake cover
issue 423
Mandrake cover
issue 492
Mandrake cover
issue 679
Mandrake cover
issue 1246
Mandrake cover
issue 2078 Bis
Mandrake cover
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| "The Werewolf" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | see # 55, cover from November 13, 1935 daily strip panel |
| "Land of the Little People" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | see # 65, cover from February 23, 1936 Sunday page panel |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (unknown stories) |
| "The Slave Traders of Tygandi" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | see # 101, cover from October 26, 1936 daily strip panel |
| "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 |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (unknown stories) |
| "The Monster of Tanov Pass" | (# ? ) | (# 178) | Example # 178: June 15, 1935 daily strip panel |
| "Saki, the Clay Camel" | (# 178) | (# ?) | Example # 178: : June 17, 1935 daily strip panel |
| "Mandrake in America" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | see # 199, cover from December 18, 1937 daily strip panel |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (unknown stories) |
| "The Deep South" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | Example # 339: April 17 to 22, 1939 daily strips |
| "Mandrake in Cockaigne" | (# ?) | (# ?) | Example # 363: July 13 to 15, 1939 daily strips |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (unknown stories) |
| "The Museum Mystery" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | Example # 445: March 4 to 6, 1940 daily strips |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (unknown stories) |
| "The Octopus Ring" | (# ?) | (# ?) | Example # 495: September 16 to 18, 1940 daily strips |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (several stories) |
| "The Ice Lady" | (# 1330) | (# ? ) | Example # 1330: first panels of story / colorized |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (unknown stories) |
| "Felina" | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | Example # 1799: panels beginning October 1946 |
| ............... | (# ? ) | (# ? ) | (unknown stories) |
| "The Big Tyme" | (# 2078 Bis) | Example Paquito 2078 Bis: story beginning (complete story ?) |
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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
- Paquito11011.jpg
- Paquito11029.jpg
- Paquito11047.jpg
- Paquito11050.jpg
- Paquito11051.jpg
View
- About "Cartas de la Loteria de Paquito": see details on Memorabilia page.
Cartas de la Loteria de Paquito
External links
| Mandrake publications in Mexico
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| Series |
Paquito presenta El Mago Maravilla • Mandrake el Mago (EDAR) • Mandrake el Mago (PC) |
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| Anthologies | |
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Flash Gordon • Paquito • Pepín • Pinocho |
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