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Bazán, Jaime. Jaime Bazán was created by the Spanish creator José Canellas Casals (Amiel, Armando, Black (III), Carlos and Marcos Bon, Bronkos, César, Thalma Klan, Judit, Mario, Nick, Red Circle, Rin-Tin-Tin (I), Sam, Sankro, Spaceman (II), Titán (II), Toby, Capitán Velez, Mack Wan, Fernando Zabal, Zimbra, Khun Zivan) and appeared in the comic Jaime Bazán #1-9 (1940).

Jaime Bazán is a heroic Spanish aviator who finds adventure around the world in the company of his lover Margarita. Bazán fights jetpack wielding techno-thieves, ray-gun-wielding Mad Scientists, skyscraper-sized city-destroying robots, Yellow Peril pirates known as the Red Dragon (and his fleet of junks), and dinosaurs in an underground world.

Bazán appears in stories with titles like “The Valley of Hell,” “The Assault on the Convoy of Gold,” and “The Phantom X.”

* I'm including Jaime Bazan in the Best of the Encyclopedia category because of the ideasplosions within Jaime Bazan #1-9. Put it this way: there wasn't a single issue of Jaime Bazan that didn't have some sort of fantastic concept. I've no idea if creator Jose Canellas Casals had plans for Jaime Bazan--given Spanish comics of the late 1930s and early 1940s, Casals likely thought he'd be lucky to get a dozen issues out of Jaime Bazan--but it seems to me that he decided to go for broke with every issue, overloading the readers from the beginning with colorful ideas and concepts. It worked--Jaime Bazan is a hell of a read. As far as wandering-adventurers-in-a-techno-pulp-world goes, Bazan is right there at the top, despite his comic lasting only nine issues. 

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