El Planeta y Su Serpiente

This Spanish-language science fiction serial, "El planeta y su serpiente" (The Planet and Its Serpent), follows Dan Harvey and his mercenary team as they confront rival operative Harry Sutton's schemes. The opening depicts a drugged knife-duel orchestrated by Sutton's agent Dina Cooper to eliminate Harvey's men; Harvey intervenes and accidentally scars Cooper's face. When Julia Vinceton, a half-Edenian woman, arrives seeking aid against Sutton's planned conquest of her planet Edenia, Harvey's six-man team debates the mission. Julia explains Edenia operates as a tribal federation with a Superior Council; Sutton seeks to incite rebellion among certain tribes to install his allies in power and control the planet's unspecified natural resources. The team votes to accept the contract. Harvey later confronts Sutton at a bar, learning he has already visited Edenia multiple times and intends to introduce "science and progress" to its inhabitants—framing his conquest as civilizing advancement.