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Title: MISTERIOS DEL GATO NEGRO No. 13 * Mexican BLACK CAT MYSTERY No. 41
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Publisher:La Prensa
Date Published: March, 1954
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CGC certified: VG (2.0). Off-white pages. Mexican version of Black Cat Mystery #41 (Harvey, 1953). Color interiors. Stories translated into Spanish. Cover: Uncredited. Art: Bob Powell, Don Perlin?, Moe Marcus, Al Eadeh. CGC Census: Two graded copies. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in any grade.

This mag's anonymously-drawn cover, depicting a huge vampire bat, may have held special resonance for Mexican readers. All three species of vampire bat – Desmodus rotundus, Diphylla ecaudata, and Diaemus youngi – are native to Mexico, where their presence has had a strong influence on Mexican folkloric traditions.

Like their American counterparts, Mexican kids were thrilled by these pulpy terror tales, but not everyone accepted this horror hejira with open arms: "In Mexico, writers, parents and teachers have made a large-scale attempt to have the government stop the importation of American crime comics." – Fredric Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent. Rinehart: 1954, p. 293.

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