I asked my co-worker Carmen, who is a native speaker of Spanish, to translate some information I had found on Luis (Louis) Cazeneuve for me. She corrected my translation of one of the titles. I thought "Pibe Palito" was the full name, she said Palito was the name, and "pibe" was an unfamiliar adjective. Some hunting on-line revealed that "pibe" is an Argentine word for child or kid, so the corrected title is "The Hunting Adventures of Kid Palito". She also explained that "Quique" is a common nickname, short for Enrique (which is Henry in English).
As for the text of the Quique sample cartoon: "Beached on the high seas" is the title at the top (Varados en alta mar). The first text block says "After the abrupt shock, the 'Invincible' remained motionless and fixed, very inclined to port: nobody had remained standing on board and more than one had received a strong blow." The second text block says "The sensation that they had collided seized all; to the extent that when they got up they went from one rail to the other in search of the reason for the shock." That's a fairly rough translation, by the way. But it's enough to make me want to read more of the story (and dang! It's fun to translate!).
Unfortunately, the only copies of the newspaper "El Mundo" in existence in the United States apparently reside at the Library of Congress. I'm not sure how to go about interlibrary loan from the Library of Congress, especially since I'm not sure how many issues they hold, and in what format. Nor do I know for sure what issues I want to see, as 1931-1939 is a pretty large range. Not to mention that Quique is a little tangential to my original search, and probably won't help me find anything new about Luis himself. In other words, I'm happily headed down a blind alley. But hey, as long as I'm enjoying myself!
My other search, for John Daly, has yielded nothing so far. A wonderful suggestion led me to ask Bob Rozakis, The Answer Man, but he doesn't know anything about Daly. He suggested I write to Julius Schwartz, which I think I may do. What have I got to lose except the price of a couple of stamps? I think I'll also send another letter to Ramona since she took over Aquaman from Daly, and might have some insight. I'll also probably send another e-mail to Mark Evanier, but he's pretty busy so I don't expect a reply. But then, I didn't expect a reply from BobRo, either, certainly not as quickly as he did respond.
And, yeah, I think I need to send a nice letter off to Jon B. Cooke at Comic Book Artist. He might be able to dig something up, too.
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