Comic Creator Donates Materials to Benson

The image is of a cover of an El Peso comic book. The colorful color depicts two men in a fist fight, a woman dressed as a beauty queen and holding a bouquet of roses, a third man sitting and watching a large television,and a fourth man holding up a sign. The sign reads "45 thrilling pages of El Peso Hero plus other great features!" Across the top of the page is printed "March.  No.1. COMICS. 10 cents."

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s El Peso Hero!

The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is pleased to announce Héctor Rodríguez III’s donation of materials pertaining to his comic series, El Peso Hero.

The series was launched in 2011, when Rodríguez saw the need for more Latino representation in graphic novels. The titular superhero, whose name is Ignacio Rivera, fights to uphold justice and morality in the border region. 

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