It’s Kalimánday! … and then there was the time Kalimán fought the Marvel Universe

If you’ve ever been to Mexico, you might’ve noticed that most of the local business have a … casual … attitude about international copyrights. Whether it’s a gang of unlicensed piñatas in the mercado or a pizza joint named after a certain spinach-chewing sailor man, it’s not hard to find images of copped characters in the country. Kalimán himself wasn’t immune to borrowing a little juice from his American comic cousins, which is how we got Kalimán versus …

A GANG OF THINGS!

“My blows do not hurt them … all I did was break my hand!”

DOCTOR DOOM(ISH)!

Doom: “You are in agony, Kalimán.”

Kalimán: “I’m losing. My strength is abandoning me completely.”

A GIANT COSMIC BEING WHO IS DEFINITELY NOT GALACTUS!

“Tremble, Kalimán. You are before The Red Madman.“

I especially like that last one — the way Kalimán kneeling on the edge of the cliff echoes the classic Silver Surfer-on-his-board pose is pretty clever. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go read an issue of Kalimán where he fights a robot that only almost looks exactly like the one from Lost in Space.