Super Malon
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Super Malon is a fictional comic book
superhero
team published by DC Comics
. They first appeared in Flash Annual
#13 (2000), and were created by Chuck Dixon
and Enrique Alcatena
.
in an issue of Wonder Woman
. Cimarrón later made a cameo appearance in Batman Incorporated #3, pretending to be a crime lord named Black Miguel.
. The heroes are a mix of fledgling adventurers and experienced vigilantes. Together, the Super Malon are the modern defenders of Argentina
. Many of their personal origins remain a secret, their identities seem to have been influenced by Argentine folklore and traditional beliefs.
Comic book
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superhero
Superhero
A superhero is a type of stock character, possessing "extraordinary or superhuman powers", dedicated to protecting the public. Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes — ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas —...
team published by DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
. They first appeared in Flash Annual
Flash (comics)
The Flash is a name shared by several fictional comic book superheroes from the DC Comics universe. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert, the original Flash first appeared in Flash Comics #1 ....
#13 (2000), and were created by Chuck Dixon
Chuck Dixon
Charles "Chuck" Dixon is an American comic book writer, best known for long runs on Batman titles in the 1990s.-Biography:Dixon grew up in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area, reading comics of all genres...
and Enrique Alcatena
Enrique Alcatena
-Biography:Alcatena became famous in his country during the 1980s collaborating for local magazines like Skorpio and Nippur. He also worked for the children's magazine Anteojito where his work was mostly surreal fantasy full of mythology...
.
Publication history
Super Malon was introduced during the Planet DC Annuals event of the nineties, an initiative to introduce international heroes. A few members of the team later appeared battling the CheetahCheetah (comics)
The Cheetah is a fictional character, a super-villainess appearing in DC Comics publications and related media. Popularly regarded as the archenemy of Wonder Woman, the Cheetah first appeared in 1943 in Wonder Woman #6 , written by Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston...
in an issue of Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 . The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986....
. Cimarrón later made a cameo appearance in Batman Incorporated #3, pretending to be a crime lord named Black Miguel.
History
The Super Malon were inspired by 1950s Argentine hero the Gaucho, a founding member of the The DomeGlobal Guardians
The Global Guardians is a team of fictional DC Comics superheroes whose members hail from countries around the world. The concept originated in the Super Friends Saturday morning cartoon, in which several heroes were added to the Justice League to give it more ethnic diversity.-History:The...
. The heroes are a mix of fledgling adventurers and experienced vigilantes. Together, the Super Malon are the modern defenders of Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. Many of their personal origins remain a secret, their identities seem to have been influenced by Argentine folklore and traditional beliefs.
Membership
- Cachiru - Cachiru is a winged cross between HawkmanHawkmanHawkman is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Dennis Neville, the original Hawkman first appeared in Flash Comics #1, published by All-American Publications in 1940....
and BatmanBatmanBatman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...
. He once was romantically involved with La Salamanca. - La Salamanca - La Salamanca possessing elementalElementalAn elemental is a mythological being first appearing in the alchemical works of Paracelsus in the 16th century. Traditionally, there are four types:*gnomes, earth elementals*undines , water elementals*sylphs, air elementals...
powers, and has the ability to astrally project her spirit self. Her astral form can remain separated from her body for three hours. - El Yaguareté - Yaguareté is a super speedster wearing a JaguarJaguarThe jaguar is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, and is the only Panthera species found in the Americas. The jaguar is the third-largest feline after the tiger and the lion, and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The jaguar's present range extends from Southern United States and Mexico...
skin costume. - Cimarrón - Cimarrón is a sword wielding swashbuckling hero.
- El Lobizón - El Lobizón is a non-infectious lycanthrope.
- Pampero - Pampero can control wind currentsWindWind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the sun through space, while planetary wind is the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space...
and create storms. His name comes from a specific type of Argentine windPamperoPampero may refer to:* The Pampero Winds* Industrias Pampero, C.A., rum distillery in Venezuela...
. - El Bagual - El Bagual is a horseHorseThe horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...
headed super-strong and nigh invulnerable humanoid. His name comes from a Spanish term for an untamed horse. - Vizacacha - Vizacacha is a master thief and acrobatAcrobaticsAcrobatics is the performance of extraordinary feats of balance, agility and motor coordination. It can be found in many of the performing arts, as well as many sports...
. His name and costume are presumably inspired by the vizcacha, a chinchilla-like animal that lives in the Andes and Central Region of Argentina.