What happened between Wonder y Toutain In the early 1980s?

As we have already mentioned in the past, Summit, Heather, Agostini Planet y Sandwiches They are the Spanish publishers who stand out more when they talk about those who have published material WonderBut those three companies are not, much less, the only ones, since it must be recognized Zinc, The dome, Distrunovel, Manhattan editions, Recreational editions, Iron, Forum, Be with, Rule, Novaro, New border or Groove They also collaborated on this editorial tour of The house of ideassome to a greater extent than others, but what happened in case Toutain? Continue reading this article until the end to find out.

Brief introduction on Toutain Editor

For anyone who does not know, it should be clarified that Toutain Editor He was a Spanish comic book editorial, whose creator and director responded with the name of Josep Toutain. In addition to the long existence of the company, since it was in force between 1973 and 1992, it is worth mentioning his creative and industrial influence during the decades of the seventies and eighties, which was decisive thanks to the fact that he knew how to collect a large number of Spanish and foreign authors (most of them Staton).

Toutain Editorto which, in 1983, the prize was awarded Yellow boy in it Lucca International Hallhas distinguished himself for his publications such as Totem, the Comix (1977 – 1994) Area 84 (1978 – 1992), Comix International (1980 – 1986), Thriller (1984) or History of comics (1983 – 1984), of which we will speak in more detailed way in the following paragraphs.

Marvel’s refusal to collaborate with Toutain

The case that interests us in this article is that the Spanish editorial above, although it is true that it has managed to acquire some seal materials Epic From Wonder For some of his magazines, he was unable to do it The house of ideas accessible to be part of the aforementioned History of comicsthat, under the direction of Javier Coma Already during his journey of 48 files of 32 pages each, he offered information texts that were accompanied by comics that were linked to the central theme discussed in each delivery. Subsequently, we show the cover of the First issue of said publication.

Although the stars who had already worked Wonderlike cases of Archie Goodwin or Denny O’Neilhave collaborated with said header, Jim Shooterwho exercised as an publisher of The house of ideas At that time, he strongly refused a collaboration between the American and Spanish society, since, in his opinion, to the project of Toutain He was missing minimal requirements.

The possible authentic reasons of Jim Shooter not to work with Toutain

There is nothing more from our intention than to leave the former publisher of Wonder But the truth is that there are ample possibilities that it was not entirely true, since the real reason for the refusal of Jim Shooter It could be the fact that the belligerent position maintained by Toutain On superhero comics, in particular those made by Wonder. However, since then Forum The veto in his editorial texts was soon known, there is the possibility to take part in the final decision.

The hidden revenge Tautain

In any case, there was no legal impediment that does not allow Toutain Use images of Wonderalthough I could not publish entire comics. This must be taken into consideration to understand the explanation we offer to the coninuation. When it was launched Comics stories n. 1a promotion was made in which the Second specimen With the purchase of the first, as shown in the image reproduced a little higher, as well as a giant poster, as can be seen below, where you could observe the technical jargon used in the comics, whose part on the bottom right contained what seemed to be a demolition Toutain.

In fact, if we look in detail in that part of the poster, we cannot stop warning that it is a reproduction of the internal pages of a comic of a comic book Power peppera creation of Basil Wolverton TO The house of ideasas mentioned in his time.

There are not enough data to say that it was a revenge on the part of Toutain Before refusal of Jim Shooter collaborate in the project of Comic storiesBut we must recognize how much tremendously curious Timely comicsbefore the company was known as Wonder.