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The authors personal collection of rare Mexican Conan comics teristics of this series is its depiction of violence and gore, which was far more graphic than anything the Comics Code Authority would have allowed in the United States at the time. For the next couple of years, that was where the knowledge of these books stood. The 1958 and 1965-66 series were fairly well-documented with the latter being more common (though still very scarce). The earlier Cuentos de Abuelito series was still more of a mystery and they were incredibly rare. Unlike comics in the US, Mexican comics were not collected until very recently and were c