Mort Cinder
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Mort Cinder is an Argentinian comic book horror-science fiction character created in 1962 by the writer Hector German Oesterheld and artist Alberto Breccia. It is considered one of the best comic strips ever produced in Argentina.
Mort Cinder appeared for the first time on August 17, 1962, in Nº 718 of the Misterix Argentinian magazine. His name, however, had been cited for the first time four numbers before, on July 20, 1962, on a newspaper read by his future companion, the antiquity dealer Ezra Winston.
Cinder is an enigmatic man who cannot die. In his very first appearance, Cinder was presented as an assassin who has been just executed. Some mysterious lead-eyes men are waiting his resurrection from the grave, planing to use his brain for a horrifying experiment. Winston, called by supernatural messages, comes to save him. Cinder has lived since ancient times, and took part in many famous historical episodes including the building of the Tower of Babel, World War I and the Battle of Thermopylae. His origin, as well as his unearthly skills, were never explained by the authors through. He as been described as "an unquiet conscience of humanity, a witness, sometimes sorrowfully torpid, of the great and small events of the Man, though often a rebellious one who never surrendered to those trying to silence him" (Alessio Lega).
Mort Cinder's strip run ended in N° 798 of Misterix, on February 28, 1964. It has been translated in France, Italy, Spain and former Yugoslavia.
[edit] Trivia
Cinder's face is the one of Breccia's friend and assistant, Horacio Lalia, while that of Ezra Winston is actually Alberto Breccia's own as an old man.
