In
1952 the Cro-Magnon
Triki-Tran
is revived and acculturated to the modern day.
[184] Inspired by the
example of
Los Hermanos Numeros, a number of
luchadores begin
fighting crime and evil, inside the wrestling ring and on the streets of Mexico’s
cities. One, known as
“El Enmascarado de Plata,” or
Silver Mask,
fights
Kroger, an insane masked scientist.
[185] Another, the
lounge singer Fernando Jackson, who inside the ring is known as
Huracan
Ramirez, debuts as a crime-fighter versus a gang of thugs.
[186]
In
1953 Los Hermanos Numeros
are defeated and all but one are killed by a Mixtec demon.
[187] In
the Balkans a disfigured, insane scientist,
Dr. Ling, resuscitates
the dead and practices brain transplants.
[188] A Mexican man makes
an unfortunate deal with
"the devil." [189] A disfigured sculptor
in New York opens a wax museum, murdering innocents and using their wax-covered
bodies as his displays.
[190] In the summer, to the south, in the Amazon
River in Brazil, a strange aquatic creature is discovered by a scientific
expedition.
[191] It matches the description of the
Brazilopithecus
rlyeh found in Mexico in 1891.
[192]
In
1954 an insane surgeon turns an ugly
witch beautiful to advance his own evil scheme.
[193] A millionaire’s
heirs murder each other over his fortune, until
Pedro Satan begins
stalking the survivors; a detective,
Diogenes Holmes, investigates
the case.
[194] An evil spirit calling himself
“the devil” opens
a nightclub in Mexico City and transforms an ugly woman into a beautiful one,
then uses her as a temptress to inspire further evils.
[195] The
luchador
Sombra Vengadora begins fighting crime outside the ring.
[196]
Later in the year Sombra Vengadora helps capture a gang of murderers who
discover the Mixtec treasure
Pancho Villa hid in 1911.
[197]
In
1955 the inventor
Marciano
creates a rocket-car and uses it to attend a costume party. He is mistaken
for an alien and is captured by the military and is studied by government
scientists.
[198]
In
1956 the insane scientist
Don
Panchito uses the bodies of professional wrestlers to create a super-powerful
monster; the result, called
“El Vampiro,” goes on a rampage and scales
a building before he is killed.
[199] Sombra Vengadora protects
a group of scientists from the masked criminal mastermind
Mano Negra.
[200]
In
1957 a Mexican couple is forced by
happenstance to spend a night in a dark and forbidding castle in rural Mexico.
They are terrified throughout the night by the appearance of a series of strange
creatures, including a gorilla, a
Brazilopithecus rlyeh [201],
a werewolf, a creature very similar to that created by
Victor von Frankenstein,
a vampire, and an Egyptian mummy.
[202] A Mexican surgeon attempts
to repeat the hand transplant experiment which so infamously went wrong in
France
[203], twice,
[204]; this attempt goes wrong as well,
and the hands, originally taken from a gangster, drive their new owner mad.
[205]
Popoca is reawakened when
Xochitl’s treasure is stolen by
grave-robbers, and Popoca, still cursed and still alive, is forced
to pursue the thieves into Mexico City to retrieve the treasure.
[206]
A short time later the evil scientist
Dr. Krupp leads a gang of thieves
in a second attempt to gain Xochitl’s treasure; Popoca and the wrestling
vigilante
El Angel combine to defeat Krupp.
[207] Soon after
that Krupp invents a nuclear-powered robot to steal the treasure, but this
attempt is a failure as well.
[208]
A professor specializing in the study of black magic becomes involved with
a witch, who eventually conjures up a demon claiming to be
Satan himself.
[209] The bumbling pair of do-gooders portrayed by their bibliographers
under a number of different guises but who are commonly known as “
Viruta”
and “
Capulina” discover a haunted house and a witch,
[210] and
later in the year help stop another evil witch.
[211] A giant spider,
similar to one seen in Spinbronn, Germany, in 1860
[212], terrorizes
a Mexican town.
[213] The son of a dead policeman helps bring to justice
a murderous magician and his monstrous assistant.
[214] And a weak
man is given a formula, derived by an ingenious scientist from “ants’ milk,”
which gives him superhuman strength; the man uses the formula to fight evil
inside the wrestling ring and out.
[215]
In
1958 the scientist
Carlos Lacroix,
who is working for the Mexican government developing plans for a missile,
defeats
the Cobra, a foreign spy intent on stealing the plans.
[216]
(It has not been confirmed that the Cobra who Lacroix fought and defeated
is the same “Cobra” who repeatedly plagued the international vigilante magician
Mandrake [217])
Two insane scientists,
Dr. Mazali and
Dr. Jacinto Aldama,
agree that, when either of them dies, the dead man will return to tell the
living man what dying is like. Dr. Mazali dies and then tells Aldama, during
a seance, that Aldama will soon be killed. Mazali’s zombie then attempts
to kill Aldama’s daughter.
[218]
In what marks the beginning of a new era in Mexican vigilantism, a well-known
luchador,
El Santo begins fighting crime outside the ring as
well as inside. Other luchadores, such as
Los Hermanos Numeros [219],
had become adventurers and vigilantes, but none had the fame of El Santo,
and it was the example of El Santo which led to so many other prominent
luchadores
(and eventually
luchadoras) waging war on evil and crime, not only
in Mexico but around the world. In this year, El Santo, who though a civilian
is a deputized and officially-empowered agent of the Mexican police, is hypnotized
by the evil
Dr. Campos and is made to commit crimes. El Santo is eventually
rescued by
El Incognito, another
luchador, and the pair defeat
Dr. Campos.
[220] Later in the year El Santo helps the police apprehend
a group of drug smugglers.
[221]
In
1959 an insane, malign scientist,
known only as
“El Professor,” steals a mummy from a museum exhibit
and returns it to life, only to find that the mummified human was a werewolf.
[222] La Llorona strikes again in suburban Mexico.
[223]
The Mexican scientist
Carlos Lacroix defeats
the Cobra, a criminal
mastermind who uses hypnosis on victims.
[224] A failed concert pianist
sells his soul to an infernal force posing as the
“Devil;” the deal
the pianist accepts is that, in exchange for becoming the greatest musician
in the world, whenever he plays he turns into a werewolf.
[225]
Nostradamus, the vampiric descendant of the human “prophet”
Nostradamus,
works to create a cult worshipping his father/grandfather; the vampire is
opposed by the ghost-breaker
Professor Nolan.
[226] Dolan later
allies with
Igor, a vampire-hunter, in an attempt to kill Nostradamus.
[227] A second clash with Nostradamus is inconclusive
[228],
but at length, and with the help of a group of angry villagers, Nostradamus
is killed.
[229]
In
1960 Viruta and
Capulina
encounter
X7 and
X8, two female, humanoid aliens, both claiming
to be from
Venus, who choose the human pair to be their husbands.
[230]
Although similar in appearance, X7 and X8 are from all reports different
from the two female, humanoid aliens who visited Earth in 1885.
[231]
A similar encounter, between the bumbling do-gooder known as
“Clavillazo”
and attractive female humanoid aliens, takes place later in the year.
[232]
After four Mexican men steal an idol from a temple deep in the Yucatan jungle,
the local priest curses the four and sends a group of “doll men” out to kill
them.
[233] Count Sergio Subotai, the last survivor of the Subotai
clan of vampires, attempts to take vengeance on the descendants of the
Colman
family which wiped out the Subotais in the 1880s.
[234]
The
luchador Neutrón begins a long and successful career
in fighting crime inside the ring and out. He defeats the insane surgeon and
scientist
Dr. Caronte, who is armed with the partial plans to a neutron
bomb and is assisted by an army of zombies
[235]. Later in the year
Caronte returns, using his superscience to revive the brains of three dead
scientists. Caronte uses their knowledge to finalize the creation of a neutron
bomb and kidnaps innocent civilians to feed their blood to the three zombies.
Fortunately for the world, Neutrón defeats Caronte before permanent
harm can be done.
[236]
In
1961 the luchador
Blue Demon
makes his debut as a vigilante crime fighter.
[237] Later in the year
he breaks up a crime ring.
[238] The inventor/adventurer
Marciano
defeats a ring of gangsters who brainwash innocents and use them to commit
murder.
[239] A supposedly haunted house is used as a scheme to bring
a crook’s schemes to light.
[240] The same house is used for the same
scheme later in the year.
[241]
In an uncanny replay of a 1948 incident
[242], two Mexican bumblers
are hired to transport wax figures of Frankenstein’s creature and a vampire.
Both figures are accidentally brought to life, and the vampire comes to life
and attempts to persuade
Dr. Sofia, a corrupt scientist, to transplant
the brain of one of the bumblers into a body similar to that of
Victor
von Frankenstein’s creation.
[243]
Viruta and
Capulina accidentally invent paint which renders
anything it is applied to invisible; soon after it is stolen by crooks and
used to commit crime.
[244] Neutrón investigates a series
of murders in a sanitarium.
[245] El Santo takes on a town in
western Mexico which is run by organized crime.
[246] Later in the year,
El Santo breaks up another organized crime syndicate.
[247] El Santo
and the
luchador Black Shadow defeat a Haitian zombie master
[248] and then together fight
Professor Corberra, an insane
scientist searching for a Mixtec treasure.
[249]
Three hundred years after the forces of the Inquisition kill the vampire
Baron Vitelius of Astara, a meteorite awakens him as a brain-eating
zombie, in which form he terrorizes the descendants of the Inquisitors who
killed him.
[250]
In
1962 Viruta and
Capulina
are sent back a million years by the scientist
Dr. Atom to retrieve
a rare element.
[251] Neutrón again clashes with
Dr.
Caronte and his army of zombies.
[252] A gang of thieves attempt
to take over the wrestling ring owned by
Huracan Ramirez; when that
fails, they attempt to murder him, only to be foiled when Ramirez’s father
and son, luchadores both, join Ramirez in the fight.
[253]
The female wrestlers
Gloria Venus and
Golden Rubi begin a
career of crime fighting when Venus’ sister is killed by the insane surgeon
Armando Campos, who is victimizing young women by having his ape-like
assistant
Gomar kidnap the women and then subjecting them to brain
transplant experiments, as a way to create the perfect woman. Venus and Rubi
put an end to Campos and his experiments.
[254]
A yeti-like creature, superhumanly strong, superhumanly-intelligent, and
capable of hypnotizing humans, terrorizes the villagers in the mountains of
rural Mexico, but he reveals his true colors when he helps capture two criminals.
[255]
Hundreds of years after
Paracelsus invents and then discards a formula
for immortality, it is discovered by
Count Brankovan, who is willing
to kill other scientists and drain the energy from their brains–the cost of
immortality–in order to live for ever.
[256]
El Santo battles a gang of
Vampire Women who are intent on
marrying a woman to a demonic spirit calling itself
“the devil.” [257]
In rural Mexico,
La Llorona strikes again.
[258] Doctor
Eduardo Ramos kills his first wife, only to discover that his mother-in-law,
Sara, is a witch; Sara carries out a gruesome revenge on Ramos and
his second wife.
[259]
In
1963 El Santo helps stop
Goudini,
a strangler.
[260] When Goudini returns later in the year, imitating
the tactics of
Erik [261], El Santo stops him a second time.
[262] At the end of the year El Santo clashes with the insane scientist
Dr. Karol, who is kidnaping civilians and turning them into monsters
and living wax statues.
[263] Perhaps inspired by El Santo, another
luchador,
Sombra Blanca, breaks up a gang of thieves.
[264]
An insane sculptor repeats the horrific “wax museum murders” of 1953
[265],
this time in Mexico.
[266]
The child adopted by Abdul Pasha in 1942 leaves
Agartha [267],
where he has been training for several years, and makes his debut as the crime-fighting
vigilante and adventurer
Kaliman, the fifth man to bear that name
[268]. His career lasts for decades and is filled with a variety of
triumphs and a range of friends, acquaintances, and enemies to match any
of the other heroes of the Wold Newton Generations; among many others, Kaliman
encounters the
Comte de Saint-Germain.
In
1964 the luchador
Enmascarado
de Oro fights a murderer who has stolen a machine which grants him invisibility.
[269] El Santo combats
Mayra, the leader of a coven of
witches.
[270]
After a pair of lovers discover an entrance into a subterranean world, a
team of scientists explore it and discover a world of dinosaurs, winged bat-men,
and cyclops.
[271] It seems clear that this was one of the Mexican
entrances into the subterranean world of
Pellucidar.
[272]
The
Blue Demon has a busy year of crimefighting, taking on human
criminals, werewolves
[273], and (with the help of
El Santo)
the return of
Gustavo.
[274] The luchadors
Angel and
Satan defeat a group of gangsters
[275] and then a criminal
mastermind who steals a new ray weapon recently invented by
Professor
Reznick.
[276]
The
Black Hood returns to take revenge on
El Santos by murdering
his girlfriend; El Santos retailiates by sending the Black Hood straight to
hell.
[277]
Clarisa Fernandez, a rich Mexican woman, is cursed to kill at night
as a werewolf.
[278]
Gloria Venus and
Golden Rubi have an eventful year, as they
first fight the evil Chinese criminal mastermind
Prince Fujitaya and
the reanimated Mixtec mummy
Tezomoc [279] and then the criminals
behind a crooked, vicious luchadoras tournament.
[280]
Neutrón fights a serial murderer who likes to film his killings
[281] and then a gang of martial arts assassins wanted for murders
in Europe and Mexico.
[282]
A bumbling comedian, falsely accused of robbery, escapes on a ship and is
wrecked on a remote island inhabited by beautiful women and frequented by
a mermaid.
[283]
In
1965 El Santo fights the resurrected
Barón Brákola.
[284] Later in the year he fights
Doctor Toicher, an insane scientist whose inventions include lethal
household appliances.
[285]
Viruta and
Capulina somehow defeat the schemes of an evil
magician
[286] and then discover, in the Black Mountains, a haunted
house.
[287]
Two beautiful, humanoid aliens kidnap several humans and bring them back
to their home planet.
[288]
The son of
Huracan Ramirez clears his father’s name after his father
is framed for a robbery.
[289]
The stage magician known as “Hindu” begins fighting crime as the costumed
vigilante
Rocambole. In one year he defeats the world-conquering plans
of the
Sect of the Scorpion [290] and a pair of insane scientists and
their army of superstrong female monsters.
[291] There is no solid
evidence linking the vigilante Rocambole to the French adventurer of the same
name
[292], nor is there any confirmed link between the Sect of the
Scorpion and the nemesis of American adventurer Don Winslow. [293]
In
1966 the
Blue Demon defeats
an invasion of brain-sucking spider aliens
[294], an insane scientist
and his army of telepathic disembodied brains
[295], and a criminal
organization of evil women and the supernatural opposite of the Blue Demon
himself.
[296]
The ghost of
Canuto Perez, looking for final rest, must outwit a
supernatural being calling itself
“the Devil,” an insane scientist,
and a female robot, and make a human female fall in love with him. Perez
succeeds.
[297]
Chanoc, a human raised in the jungles of the Yucatan and given all
the skills of the animals who raised him, including a monkey sidekick, battles
foreign spies who are trying to steal uranium from Mexico’s government.
[298]
The occultist
Dr. Satan terrorizes Mexico, using an evil and possibly
supernatural winged creature as a minion.
[299]
Two supernatural beings, once claiming to be an angel and one claiming to
be the
“Devil,” fight for the soul of an an alcoholic man.
[300]
A dying mother sends her son,
Luis Brener, to
“Castle Draculstein”
to avenge the death of Luis’ father, who was killed by
“Baron Draculstein.”
Brener makes his way past a group of
Vampire Women and kills
“Draculstein.”
[301] Although Brener’s biographers altered the names of the Castle
and the Baron, it is clear from their portrayal that Brener actually traveled
to Castle Dracula and killed a soul clone
[302] of Dracula himself.
A Mexican team of scientists and explorers stumble across an island on which
dinosaurs and Neanderthals still live.
[303] It is unclear what relationship
this island had with other, similar islands discovered in the 19th and 20th
centuries.
[K]
The child adopted by a group of scientists in 1945 and given intensive training
is deemed ready, and he is sent out into the world to make it a better place
and to help downtrodden people everywhere. He does this by putting on a mask
and becoming
Mil Mascaras, one of the most prominent of the
luchador
vigilantes. In his first outing he defeats a gang of thieves led by an evil
luchador
[304], and in his second outing he defeats a criminal motorcycle
gang which is also a fanatical religious cult.
[305]
Gloria Venus and
Golden Rubi, assisted by
El Angel,
defeat the
Panther Women, who seek revenge for the death of their leader,
Eloim, by an ancestor of Venus.
[306]
El Santos and his friend
Jorge Rubio begin working for
Interpol
and crush a Chinese-based international counterfeiting ring run by the sinister
female spies
Ruth Taylor and
Sadomi Suki.
[307]
Alex Dinamo,
bon vivant and agent of the
Mexican Intelligence
Service, defeats the schemes of a number of ill-inclined agents of foreign
powers.
[308]
El Santo defeats a group of aliens, claiming to be “Martians,” who
attempt to invade the Earth, beginning with Mexican wrestling rings
[309];
El Santo defeats a crooked swami and his inheritance fraud scheme
[310];
and El Santo teams up with Jorge Rubio to defeat Sadomi Suki and the remnants
of Ruth Taylor’s spy ring.
[311]
Introduction.
Prehistory-1785.
1801-1899.
1901-1950.
1951-1966.
1967-1972.
1973-2005.
Endnotes.
Bibliography.
Some Unknown Members of
the Wold Newton Family Tree.