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El Capitán Trueno (lit. Captain Thunder) was the hero of a series of Spanish comic books created in 1956 by the writer Víctor Mora and illustrated mainly by Miguel Ambrosio Zaragoza (Ambrós). The comics were published continuously between 1956 and 1968 eventually becoming the most popular Spanish hero comic of all times: at its height it sold more than 170000 copies every week. Mora found his inspiration in Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant.