Geminis by James Zee
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,11See for example Shoot-Out Western (Gredown, Australia). Mestizo was created around 1983 and published in Spain in Hunter... and a few of the nearly 50 episodes of Jon-Khe created with artists Bermejo and Ortiz.22See for example Blazing Six Guns (Gredown, Australia). The series was created around 1982-1983 and published in Spain in...
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.33Reported at www.tebeosfera.com. Drácula was an ambitious project to publish renowned Spanish writers willing to be experimental, as censorship... Many stories attributed to "Roger" in this title are part of the Delta 99 series which Gredown printed.44For example, see www.tebeosfera.com....
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;55Published in Kirk 4 (Norma Editorial, Spain) 1982.... the first part of a proposed series Metropol Hospital with artist Joan Boix (b.1945) in 1984 for Ediciones Metropol;66Published in Metropol 9 (Metropol, Spain), 1984.... and "Una noche tranquila" again with artist Usero in Dossier Negro 185, March 1985 (Ediciones Zinco, Spain).77Reported at www.telefonica.net....
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).88Published in the first issue of a revived Joyas Literarias Juveniles, Bruguera's Spanish equivalent of Classics Illustrated. From 1970 to...
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;99Viaje al infierno ("Journey to Hell") was created in the early 1980s and serialised in Toutain Editor's Spanish version of... 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 1986.1010Historia de un rifle ("Story of a rifle"), created for Norma Editorial, was published in Spain in Capitan Trueno...
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.1111The author "Carlos Echevarría Alonso" is reported as the same Echevarría by www.tebeosfera.com. The novels include: —... If so, he also scripted a story "Flash Back" in Címoc Especial 61212This issue also includes "El Detective" by Alfonso Font, probably the closest the two creators came to working together after... (Norma Editorial, Spain) in 1985 with art by José González (1939-2009).1313José González is most famous for his art on Vampirella, which was reprinted by KG Murray in Australia. An...
References
— the Vagabundos del espacio series (Producciones editoriales): Volumes 1-4 "La ciudad de cristal" (1981), "El planeta de los enanos" (1981), "El planeta de los hombres-mono" (1982?) and El planeta de la fantasía (1982), with two reportedly unpublished novels, "Los robots salvajes" and "El planeta de Robin-Hood", by John Oxford;
— the Héroes del espacio series (Bruguera/Ceres): Volume 112 "¡Pesadilla!" (1982) and Volume 146 "Detective privado, siglo XXIII" (1983) by Alan Parker; and
— the Thanatos (Forum) series: Volume 3 "El sótano" (1984), Volume 10 "Come, querida, come... " (1985), Volume 17 "La amante del fantasma" (1985), Volume 22 "¿Muñecas? ¡No, gracias!" (1985), and Volume 30 "Viaje usted con la muerte" (1985) by Alan Parker.
A short story "Ajuste de cuentas" by Carlos Echeverría Alonso was also published in Mystery Magazine, June 1968 (editorial M.Y.N.E. S.A.), prior to the start of Echeverría known comics work.