Aventuras de Superlópez | El Supergrupo | ¡Todos contra uno, uno contra todos! | Los alienígenas | y otras aventuras (Súper Humor Superlópez 1) (Bruguera Clásica)

Franco outlawed superhero comic books ... let that sink in for a minute.

So ... this was kind of a big deal when it came out. It reads like a long form Mad Magazine parody of The Avengers, Lord of the Rings, etc (nothing has changed in the last 50 years, has it ...) but it's more a self-parody of Spain and its own sense of backwards ineptness in the waning days of Franco's regime personified by the hapless, hopeless, luckless Super Lopez who can't do anything right.

Compared to Asterix and Tintin, which I was reading at the same time, I found it a little harder. At least some of this is that there were a lot of language in-jokes that relied on Spanish slang which just went over my head. It's also significantly easier than Mortadelo y Filemón which I couldn't make heads or tails of and still haven't found the courage to retry.

From a historical view alone it's worth a read even though I did find the jokes a bit repetitive after a little while.