El Coyote (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 46 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.11 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand. Pompa, Charles Harrison (illustrator).

Hobby-Nostalgie-Druck (um 1990). Je Album 17 S. mit 64 montierten Bildern, orig. kart.---Nachdruck der EA, Schwicker, 1951 572 Gramm.

José Mallorquí's El Coyote novels in Spanish and Italian editions from 1957 to 1973, documenting the international circulation and repeated redesign of a Spanish popular fiction series set in California after its annexation by the United States. Mallorquí created the masked Californio hero in 1943 and developed the series through 192 titles, placing Don César de Echagüe and his alter ego within conflicts over land, political authority, racial hierarchy, and American settlement during the Gold Rush era. The four principal volumes extend from an Italian illustrated periodical edition to later Barcelona pocket book issues published by Bruguera and Favencia, showing how publishers repackaged the same fictional world for successive postwar readerships. Mallorquí's series became his best known work and remained in print through multiple publishing programs after the original run ended. Four illustrated paperback novels, approximately 100 to 120 pages each, Milan and Barcelona, 1957 to 1973. [1] Mallorquí, José. "El Diablo" a Los Angeles. Milan: Casa Editrice Dardo, 1957. Second Italian edition, issued in the Collana del Coyote, Anno VII, No. 157, dated August 1, 1957. The illustrated wrapper depicts two armed men in Mexican dress beneath the series title El Coyote; the title page carries a masked portrait signed F. Batet. [2] Mallorquí, José. El secreto de Maise Syer. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, circa 1968 to 1971. Spanish pocket edition with an Antonio Bernal cover showing two mounted figures confronting one another beneath bare branches. The front wrapper bears manuscript markings in pencil and crayon, including "Num. 30," while the rear promotes Bruguera's El Coyote, Enviado Secreto, and Oeste Legendario series and gives the retail price as ten pesetas. [3] Mallorquí, José. Sierra de oro. Barcelona: Ediciones Favencia, 1973. Illustrated paperback with a masked gunman in a sombrero on the wrapper; Jano credited for the cover and Pedro Alférez González for the illustrations. The copyright page records legal deposit B. 33561-1973 and ISBN 242-0024-1, while the preliminary matter directs readers to biographical sketches of the principal characters and a map of the geographical area in which the action occurs. The editions span a period when Mallorquí's Californio hero had moved beyond the original Spanish series into translation, reprinting, film, radio, and comic adaptation. The Italian issue places El Coyote within a Milanese periodical program in 1957, while the Bruguera and Favencia volumes document Barcelona publishers returning the novels to circulation during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their wrappers shift from Batet's masked caballero and Mexican costuming to Bernal and Jano's painted scenes of pursuit, firearms, and confrontation, while maps and character biographies supplied later readers with a recurring geography and cast. The group records how Spanish publishers converted nineteenth century California into a durable postwar popular mythology centered on a bilingual, aristocratic masked avenger negotiating the transfer of power from Mexican to American rule. Water staining, page toning, heavy handling wear, wrapper creasing and losses, and notes in pencil and crayon throughout. Overall fair condition. Supplemented by two free reading copies lacking their illustrated wrappers, Trueno negro, No. 50, and Otra vez el pasado, No. 87, in poor condition. Signed.…

José Mallorquí's El Coyote paperback archive from 1968 to 1971, documenting the continued circulation of a Spanish Western series that recast nineteenth century California through the adventures of the masked Californio César de Echagüe. Mallorquí developed El Coyote during the 1940s around conflicts arising from the transfer of California from Mexican to American rule, placing a Spanish Californio protagonist within a genre more commonly organized around Anglo American settlement and expansion. The original Clíper series ran from 1944 to 1953 and was followed by repeated republication programs, including Editorial Bruguera's 1968 to 1971 edition, one indication of the character's persistence in Spanish popular culture decades after his introduction. Publications IAI The present group spans four years of the Bruguera series and preserves its mass market presentation of Mallorquí's California for readers in Spain and Latin America: the rear wrappers advertise Editorial Bruguera offices in Barcelona, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Caracas, México, and Rio de Janeiro and carry a retail price of 10 pesetas, placing the novels within a transatlantic distribution system for inexpensive Spanish language popular fiction. Archive consists of six 8vo paperback volumes published by Editorial Bruguera in Barcelona between 1968 and 1971 as part of the publisher's El Coyote collection, in illustrated pictorial wrappers. Bruguera's edition appeared from 1968 through 1971 with cover illustrations by Antonio Bernal. [1] Mallorquí, José. Otra lucha. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968. Colección El Coyote No. 16. Illustrated wrapper showing the masked Coyote confronting a woman, with his sombrero, mask, gun belt, and revolvers establishing the visual vocabulary used to identify the character throughout the series. [2] Mallorquí, José. Un hombre acosado. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1969. Colección El Coyote No. 72. Wrapper dominated by a close portrait of the masked Coyote above a revolver, presenting the hero through the concealed identity central to Mallorquí's narratives. [3] Mallorquí, José. El Coyote en el valle. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. Colección El Coyote No. 92. Illustrated wrapper showing an elderly seated man and two standing figures beneath an enlarged masked face, shifting the series imagery from the solitary gunfighter toward the familial and social conflicts that recur in Mallorquí's California. [4] Mallorquí, José. Los voluntarios del Coyote. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. Colección El Coyote No. 95. Wrapper depicting an armed confrontation among several men, including a masked gunman at left, emphasizing collective violence and extralegal enforcement within the series' frontier setting. [5] Mallorquí, José. Se alquila un asesino. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. Colección El Coyote No. 97. Wrapper showing the masked Coyote in the foreground and an armed man approaching behind him, with the title explicitly framing hired violence as the narrative premise. [6] Mallorquí, José. Diligencia a Monterrey. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1971. Colección El Coyote No. 108. Wrapper showing the Coyote standing over two fallen men outside a building, one revolver still visible beside a body. The rear wrappers promote Bruguera's Enviado Secreto and Oeste Legendario lines alongside El Coyote, locating Mallorquí's novels within the publisher's broader market for espionage and Western adventure fiction. Mallorquí's choice of California supplied the conventional machinery of the Western with a different cultural center. César de Echagüe belongs to the Californio society that preceded American sovereignty, and his masked identity allows Mallorquí to construct frontier justice around a Hispanic protagonist negotiating the political and social order created after annexation rather than around an Anglo settler entering supposedly unclaimed territory. The Bruguera editions document a later stage in that history: novels originating in the postwar Spanish pulp market were repackaged in brightly illustrated pocket editions and distributed across a network explicitly naming Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, and Brazil. Bruguera's four year edition formed part of a succession of republications extending from Cid in the early 1960s through later Favencia, Forum, and Planeta DeAgostini editions, demonstrating the repeated return of Mallorquí's character to new generations of Spanish language readers. Publications IAI The six wrappers retain signs of their inexpensive circulation, including rubbing, creasing, edge wear, toning, manuscript ownership and numerical markings, and ex libris stamps to some volumes; No. 108 exhibits rippling but remains clean. Interiors toned as expected for the paper stock. Overall good condition. A compact run of El Coyote documenting how Spanish popular fiction relocated the Western to a post annexation California centered on Californio identity, masked resistance, frontier violence, and transatlantic Spanish language readership.…

Mallorquí, José. El Coyote, a long-running Spanish-language Western series centered on the masked Californio vigilante César de Echagüe, documenting Mexican and Californio resistance narratives within twentieth-century popular fiction. Originally developed in the 1940s and widely circulated throughout Spain and Latin America, the series reworked the conventions of the American Western by positioning Mexican landowners, laborers, and Californios as protagonists confronting racial violence, legal dispossession, and Anglo expansion following the annexation of California. The archive reflects Spanish-language popular culture and diasporic literary circulation, illustrating how pulp fiction became a vehicle for preserving alternative historical narratives about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and nineteenth-century California. Through mass-market paperbacks distributed across the Spanish-speaking world, Mallorquí's novels offered readers a heroic Mexican protagonist operating against the dominant Anglo-American mythology of the frontier. Archive consists of ten paperback volumes published by Editorial Bruguera in Barcelona between 1968 and 1970 as part of the publisher's El Coyote series, all featuring dramatic illustrated covers by Antonio Bernal. [1] Mallorquí, José. El exterminio de la Calavera. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968. Collection El Coyote No. 10. [2] Mallorquí, José. El final de la lucha. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968. Collection El Coyote No. 17. [3] Mallorquí, José. La ley de los vigilantes. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968. Collection El Coyote No. 28. [4] Mallorquí, José. Una sombra en Capistrano. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968. Collection El Coyote No. 36. [5] Mallorquí, José. Mensajero de paz. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968. Collection El Coyote No. 39. [6] Mallorquí, José. La última bala. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. Collection El Coyote No. 76. [7] Mallorquí, José. El regreso de Analupe. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. Collection El Coyote No. 78. [8] Mallorquí, José. Muerte: punto de destino. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. Collection El Coyote No. 89. [9] Mallorquí, José. Apostando su vida. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. Collection El Coyote No. 96. [10] Mallorquí, José. Sierra Blanca. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. Collection El Coyote No. 99. The brightly colored cover illustrations depict masked riders, gunfights, desert landscapes, ranch settings, and armed confrontations characteristic of mid-century pulp Western aesthetics while centering Mexican and Californio protagonists rather than Anglo frontier heroes. These Bruguera editions demonstrate the continued commercial circulation of the El Coyote mythology decades after its original publication through inexpensive paperbacks marketed throughout the Spanish-speaking world. The El Coyote novels occupy an important position within Spanish-language popular literature and transnational Western fiction, particularly for their reframing of California history through Mexican and Californio perspectives largely absent from mainstream Anglo-American Westerns of the same period. Their continued republication in the late 1960s and early 1970s coincided with expanding interest in Chicano identity, Mexican-American history, and revisionist interpretations of the American West. The archive also documents the role of Editorial Bruguera in disseminating popular Spanish-language fiction across Europe and Latin America through durable mass-market pulp distribution networks. Seven volumes remain in good to very good condition with light edge wear and mild page toning typical of pulp paper; La última bala, Una sombra en Capistrano, and El regreso de Analupe exhibit heavier handling wear including creasing, scuffing, ink ownership markings, and blue marker annotations to covers. All volumes intact with no loose pages observed. Overall condition ranges from good to very good. A substantial grouping from one of the most influential Spanish-language Western series of the twentieth century, documenting alternative literary interpretations of the California frontier and Mexican resistance within popular culture.…

[El Coyote] Ten Spanish pulp western paperbacks from Editorial Bruguera's El Coyote series, 1968 to 1971, documenting Editorial Bruguera's late Franco era recirculation of José Mallorquí's El Coyote, the masked Californio avenger first introduced in 1943. The group preserves ten small format Bruguera issues priced at 10 pesetas, with cover art credited in the books to Antonio Bernal and narratives set in a Spanish imagined California of hidden lineage, vigilante justice, romance, inheritance conflict, political violence, and frontier law. Mallorquí's hero, don César de Echagüe, enters these books through a recurring double structure of public aristocratic identity and masked intervention, a pattern that connects the series to Zorro, Spanish adventure fiction, and later Latinx literary concerns with cultural survival, passing, secrecy, and resistance under hostile legal orders. Mallorquí, J. El Coyote. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968 to 1971. Ten illustrated paperback volumes in pictorial wrappers, each with color cover illustration, interior title art, printed title page, and copyright page. Seven are first Bruguera collection editions. [1] La esposa de don César. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968. [2] De tal palo. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1969. [3] El charro de las Calaveras. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1969. [4] Los hombres mueren al anochecer. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. [5] El hombre de ningún sitio. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. [6] Los hijastros del odio. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. [7] El aullido del Coyote. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. [8] El último de los siete. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1971. [9] A la caza del Coyote. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1971. [10] El diablo, Murrieta y el Coyote. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1971. Mallorquí's El Coyote was one of the longest running Spanish popular western series of the twentieth century, and Bruguera's 1968 to 1971 edition shows how the character remained commercially active after the first postwar wave of Spanish pulp publishing. These copies retain the repeated Bruguera design system: author and price across the head, large red series title, compressed action painting below, and numbered spines that made the books legible as sequential mass market fiction. The stories visible here repeatedly turn on concealed identity, disputed authority, family alliance, and public violence, with chapter openings such as "Domingo por la mañana," "El asesinato es siempre un delito," "Un ruego del Coyote," and "La marca de los cobardes" framing the series as a moral and political western rather than a simple gunfighter cycle. Covers and spines rubbed and creased, with toning, scattered staining, owner and price marks, small losses, and tape repairs to several volumes; interiors toned but readable. Overall fair to good condition. A compact run of Bruguera El Coyote paperbacks showing how Spanish popular publishing recast California frontier conflict through masked identity, romance, inheritance, and vigilante justice.…