Revista Cómicos, No. 9 (Cuban comics magazine) — cover feature "Alona" by Rafael Morante
Entry/Object ID
2026.2.8
Description
Saddle-stitched comics magazine. Color cover with a Morante science-fiction illustration: the heroine Alona, long-haired and armored, striding forward with a stylized spacecraft and psychedelic energy forms across a perspective grid. Blue starburst masthead "COMICOS" with issue number "9" at upper right; stylized "ALONA" title; a red "CUBA" corner banner with the publisher logo and "EDITORIAL PABLO DE LA TORRIENTE" at upper left; price "50c" lower right; artist signature "Morante" near the figure's feet. Interior not photographed.
Acquisition
Accession
2026.2
Source or Donor
Alberto Darias Marcos
Publication Details
Author
Rafael Morante
Illustrator
Rafael Morante
Volume/Number/Issue
9
Place Published
City
Havana
Country
Cuba
Region
Caribbean, Central America
Notes
Date: Circa 1986–1987. The cover prints only the issue number "9," not a year; Alona's first installments appeared around 1986 in Cómicos, and the magazine ran circa 1985/86–1992, placing this issue in the mid-to-late 1980s.
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Notes
COMICOS"; issue "9"; "ALONA"; "CUBA"; "50c"; publisher logo with "EDITORIAL PABLO DE LA TORRIENTE"; signature "Morante."
Condition
Overall Condition
Fair
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Rafael Morante
Notes
author
Related Places
Place
City
Havana
Country
Cuba
Region
Caribbean, Central America
Notes
publication
Research Notes
Notes
Alona is a landmark Cuban science-fiction historieta. Alona was one of the characters of the now-defunct comics magazine Cómicos, from Editorial Pablo de la Torriente, with scripts and designs by Rafael Morante, who around 1986 transcended the graphic imagery of his time. Around 1986, Cuban science fiction found in Alona — whose first installments appeared in the extinct magazine Cómicos — a work of intense visual and narrative quality in the space-opera subgenre; it was later revisited as a graphic novel more than 30 years on.
