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¡Aventuras! (Cuban adventure comic, Ediciones en Colores) — eight issues

Publication

Comic books / historietas (serial publication); print on paper. Newsstand-format adventure comics, color-printed covers over newsprint interiors, saddle-stitched. Each cover carries the ¡AVENTURAS! logo and the publisher device "EC / una publicación de ediciones en colores" in the upper-left corner. Subjects span urban romance, Western/indigenous, samurai, circus, and underwater-adventure genres. Included loose interior leaf (image 8) is a three-tier Spanish-language comics page. Included: 1- Cover: Havana street (Vedado/La Rampa), two women on a motor scooter, boy waving; "Nelson '65"; 1965 2- Cover: Two men fighting by a tree; "EN ESTE NÚMERO: EL CAPITÁN RASMI"; "Domingo García"; 1965 3- Cover: Two indigenous men in river rapids, storm; "Robe '66" (Roberto Alfonso Cruz); 1966 4- Cover: Warrior on rearing white horse grap; "Luis '66" (tentative); 1966 5-Cover: Samurai sword fight, Japanese setting; 1966 6- Cover: Boy fleeing a lion outside "GRAN CIRCO"; "Robe '66" (Roberto Alfonso Cruz); 1966 7- Cover: Two scuba divers underwater, knife, moray eel; "Newton"; 1966 8- (not a cover) interior page, Sherlock Holmes story; Adaptation of Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"; undated

2026.2.1

2026.2

Alberto Darias Marcos

Magazine

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

Cover artists vary by issue: Nelson; Domingo García; Robe (Roberto Alfonso Cruz); "Luis" (tentative); Newton; one unattributed. Date: 1965–1966 (dated covers); series/publisher active circa 1965–1967.

Poor

Ediciones en Colores

publisher

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

"Robe" (covers 3, 6) is Roberto Alfonso Cruz. Born in Havana in 1937, he is one of the most significant figures of Cuban comics after the Revolution and a meticulous archivist of Cuban publishing.