Scope and Contents
Arrangement
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Preferred Citation
Immediate Source of Acquisition
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
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
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