Fantastic Four en Espanol: Comic series tries bilingual issue
December 28th, 2007 | by admin |Original Post here: Snikkkt!
Source: Newsday.com
The Fantastic Four’s latest comic book adventure is available in English and Spanish, marking a first for a major American comic book publisher, a newspaper reported Friday. 
Released Friday, “Fantastic Four: Isla de la Muerte!” _ or “Los Cuatro Fantasticos: !Isla de la Muerte!” _ takes the long-running series to Puerto Rico, according to publisher Marvel Entertainment Inc.’s Web site. The book’s name translates as “Island of Death” in Spanish.
With Hispanics making up a fast-growing share of Marvel readers, “we felt it was an ideal time to develop a special title for the Hispanic audience that would be available in multiple languages and spotlight the culture as well,” Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada said in a statement, The New York Times reported.
During Quesada’s seven-year tenure, New York-based Marvel has made a number of moves toward diversifying the historically white world of comics. The company created its first comic featuring a Latina superhero, Anya Corazon, in 2004. Her escapades ended after a few issues.
In “Fantastic Four: Isla De La Muerte,” the famous crime-fighting quartet confronts such foes as the chupacabra, according to Marvel’s Web site. The mythical bloodsucking creature’s name means “goat sucker” in Spanish; its legend is said to have originated in Puerto Rico and Mexico.
“It was very fun to write,” author Tom Beland told the Times.
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