Finding aid for the Memín Pinguín collection 0585

Diann Benti

USC Libraries Special Collections

2021 October

Doheny Memorial Library 206

3550 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, California 90089-0189

specol@usc.edu

URL: http://libraries.usc.edu/locations/special-collections

Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections

Title: Memín Pinguín collection

Creator: Vargas Dulché, Yolanda

Creator: Valencia Burgos, Sixto

Identifier/Call Number: 0585

Physical Description: 3 Linear Feet 5 boxes

Date (inclusive): 1965-2006

Abstract: This collection contains issues of the Spanish-language Mexican comic book Memín Pinguín, chiefly dating from 1965 to 1971. There are also three issues from the 2006 re-edited version and commemorative Mexican postage stamps.

Language of Material: Spanish; Castilian.

Container: 1

Container: 2

Container: 3

Container: 4

Container: 5

Scope and Contents

This collection contains issues of the Spanish-language Mexican comic book Memín Pinguín, chiefly dating from 1965 to 1971. There are also three issues from the 2006 re-edited version and commemorative Mexican postage stamps.

Please be advised that this material contains racist imagery.

The set is incomplete and includes nos. 71-73, 75-81, 8-87, 96-99, 101, 109-150, 152, 160-161, 167, 171, 180-181, 183, 185, 190, 194, 197, 205, 207, 209, 212, 219, 225-227, 230, 234, 237, 239-240, 242-243, 245-248. 256-286, 288-296, 303, 306, 314-316, 318-323, 325, 327-331, 333, 335-337, 340-341, 343-362, and 365-366. There are also three issues from 2006: nos. 55, 241-242, and a sheet of "La Caricatura en Mexico" Memín Pinguín postage stamps (2005) and envelope with postmark.

Arrangement

Items are arranged in the following order:

Box 1: Nos. 71-136 (1965-1966)

Box 2: Nos. 137-264 (1966-1969)

Box 3: Nos. 265-343 (1969-1970)

Box 4: Nos. 344-366 (1970-1971)

Box 5: Nos. 55, 241-242 (2006); Postage stamps (2005)

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

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Preferred Citation

[Box/folder no. or item name], Memín Pinguin collection, Collection no. 0585, Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased from Howard Karno Books.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Blacks -- Caricatures and cartoons

Blacks -- Mexico -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Memín Pinguín (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Mexico