Often on Saturdays they bought comics...

The children/ace of the seventies grew up next to the characters of Bruguera or Valenciana, who broke into our homes and our lives. We were not the only ones who enjoyed the adventures of Captain Thunder, Jabato or Stone Man; we were not the only ones who laughed with Zipi and Zape, Mortadelo and Filemon or Carpanta... Our parents knew in the forties and fifties the golden age of the comic book, a cheap entertainment and accessible to wide sections of the population.

One of the most popular and long-lived publications of the Spanish comic book was the magazine Pulgarcito, born in Barcelona in 1921, within the publishing house El Gato Negro (which in 1942 would be called Bruguera, the name of its owners and founders) and disappeared -already in Ediciones B- between the late eighties and early nineties.

Like other capitals, Pulgarcito hosted a plethora of "cartoons" that formed the collective imaginary of a cross-sectional audience, who always remained faithful to some subjects and some adventures that, along with cinema, did so much to distract society. From the eighties, with the definitive crisis of Bruguera, the decline of the comic strip considered "traditional", a product emerged in the postwar period that, for decades, filled the leisure time of our parents and grandparents with adventures and jokes.

Entering the kiosk was always an adventure as daily as it was happy. We often remember with nostalgia those shelves and counters full of colors, textures and shapes, a fantasy scenario that awaited us at school.

The Pusol School Museum has an important collection of comics, including dozens of Pulgarcito numbers, most of them after the 1950s. Along with the veteran publication, maintaining its original header and periodicity -was weekly-, appeared Super Thumb, Big Thumb or Mini Thumb, among other formats and editorial experiences with which they tried to increase the number of their readers/ as.

From the museum, we adhere to the commemoration of the centenary of Pulgarcito, exhibiting -until July 18- a small selection of the funds that it preserves from this publication. We hope you like it.

Author: Rafa Martínez, director of the Pusol Project.