From the exhibition
Selección Terror: Los niños del cementerio
· 1977

A Spanish-language pulp magazine cover featuring two children fleeing a skeletal figure in a graveyard setting. The painted scene uses warm earthtones and dramatic lighting to stage a gothic horror encounter—a staple scenario of the adventure pulps that flourished through the mid-twentieth century. The bold red lettering of the title and the house logo identify this as part of a genre-specific series aimed at readers seeking supernatural and macabre narratives. Such magazines, printed on cheap wood-pulp paper and sold at newsstands across Latin America, trafficked in the horror and weird-fiction conventions that would later inform comic book storytelling.
Public domain (copyright not renewed), restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain