José Guadalupe Cruz (January 31, 1917 – November 22, 1989) was a Mexican comics writer and screenwriter.

Career

Born in

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, Cruz published his first comic when he was 18 years old and his

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became one of the most productive and successful in the Mexican comics-scene. In the beginning his works were printed in the magazines ''Paquin'', ''Paquita'' and ''Pepin'', and many of these stories captured his readers, like ''Adelita y las guerrillas''. In 1943 he started to use a system of

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to make his comics. He created novels of great power like ''Carta Brava'', ''Percal'', ''Tango'', ''Ventarron'', ''El Valiente'', ''Tenebral'', ''Dancing'' and ''Malevaje''. In 1947 he started writing for films and acted in more than thirty movies with directors like

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and

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. In 1952, he founded his own publishing house, ''Ediciones José G. Cruz'', which published comics like ''Muñequita'', ''La Pandilla'', ''Rosita Alvirez'', ''El Vampiro Tenebroso'' and ''Canciones Inolvidables''. ''Santo, el enmascarado de plata'', based on the Mexican wrestler

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, was so successful that it was published for 30 years uninterruptedly and is one of the icons of Mexican popular culture.

Personal life and death

On February 10, 1940, Cruz married Doña Ana Maria Ayala Cornejo at age 23, with whom he had his first son, José Gustavo. Cruz died on November 22, 1989, in

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at the age of 72.

Selected filmography

* ''

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'' (1950) * '' It's a Sin to Be Poor'' (1950) * ''

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'' (1951) * ''

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'' (1951)

Sources

External links

Biography (in Spanish) of José Guadalupe Cruz on cinemexicano.unam.mx - includes photo
1917 births 1989 deaths Mexican comics writers Writers from Jalisco People from Teocaltiche 20th-century Mexican male actors 20th-century Mexican screenwriters 20th-century Mexican male writers {{Comics-writer-stub