Later Echevarría and Gredown
The eclectic range of Western oneshots produced by Gredown in Australia also contained some of Echevarría's later Westerns for Norma Editorial (Spain).
This included episodes of Mestizo with artist Bermejo,1 and a few of the nearly 50 episodes of Jon-Khe created with artists Bermejo and Ortiz.2
Some of Echevarría earliest anonymous work for Selecciones Ilustradas, dating to 1971-72, may also have been published by Gredown in Australia . Echevarría wrote for Drácula (Buru Lan SA de Ediciones, Spain) under the pseudonym "Roger", a pen name used by agency head Josep Toutain, but also other SI authors.3 Many stories attributed to "Roger" in this title are part of the Delta 99 series which Gredown printed.4
In 1981, a revived Címoc (Editorial Norma, Spain) printed several short stories by Echevarría with Adolfo Usero (b.1941) in its early issues, including "El Sueño de Mike", "Hoy voy a matar a alguien", "El hombre que contaba historias" and "El viejo Doctor Spensor".
Other one-off stories include "Popy" with artist Ramón González Antonaya (b. ?) for Norma Editorial in 1982;5 the first part of a proposed series Metropol Hospital with artist Joan Boix (b.1945) in 1984 for Ediciones Metropol;6 and "Una noche tranquila" again with artist Usero in Dossier Negro 185, March 1985 (Ediciones Zinco, Spain).7
In 1985, Echevarría adapted Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Bruguera, Spain), with art by Antonio Deu Llamas (b.1950) and a cover by Esteban Maroto (b.1942).8
Two final comic series, too late for Murray and Gredown printings, are the science fiction themed Viaje al infierno ("Journey to Hell") with Rafael Aura León (1940-c1986) published in Toutain Editor's Creepy in 1984;9 and western series Historia de un rifle (History of a Rifle) created with Jesus Redondo (b.1934) for the international market, but published by Spain's Bruguera in 1986.10
At this time, the flow of new comic work from Echevarría appears to stop. His subsequent activities are uncertain and his current location unknown, although a career in non-graphic fiction under a pen name is likely.
A number of pulp science fiction and horror novels by "Alan Parker" and "John Oxford", published 1981-1985, may have been authored by Echevarría under these pseudonyms.11 If so, he also scripted a story "Flash Back" in Címoc Especial 612 (Norma Editorial, Spain) in 1985 with art by José González (1939-2009).13