Lúpin
monthly Argentine comics magazine
Revista Lúpin (Lúpin Magazine) was a monthly Argentine comics magazine. Guillermo Guerrero and Héctor Mario Sidoli launched it on February 1, 1966. It was discontinued in 2007.
The comic takes its name from the popular Argentine comic strip hero Lúpin el Piloto, which debuted in 1959.
Concept
The comic featured the air adventures of its pilot hero Lúpin, as well as other strips with regular characters, usually with a technical or scientific bent. The inspiration behind making a comic strip about a pilot came from Guerrero's past as a civil pilot. It also included plans for building model aircraft, simple electronic devices, telescopes, and other technical objects. The name Lúpin is a lunfardo word for "looping the loop" that comes from the English word "looping". The accent on the u is not standard in Spanish spelling. Guerrero also commented that it created confusion, the intended pronunciation resembles the English pronunciation of "looping", while the standard Spanish pronunciation rules indicate that the word should take emphasis in the second syllable, because of this rule, a big number of people of people ended up saying Lupín instead.
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