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June 2, 2011 8:19 am To Fernando from Argentina:

Como Esta!  Halcon de Oro, published by the Mexican company Novaro, is the comic you are remembering.  It literally means Golden Hawk but featured reprints of DC Comics Blackhawk series.  Novaro owned the erights to reprint DC Comics materail.  It was called Golden Hawk because Blackhawk, or El Halcon Negro, was already being used by the publisher La Prensa, for reprinted Blackhawk  stories from the Quality Comics publishers which owned Blackhawk when it was created. La Prensa had the rights to reprint Quality COmics material.   Quality sold Blackhawk to DC comics which touched off a lawsuit in Mexico between rival Novaro and La Prensa for the publication rights for the title.  Who did they belong to Quality or DC, and who had the rights to reproduce them, Novaro or La Prensa?  For awhile, while the case was pending, both publications were being printed and sold.  But just prior to the case going to court, La Prensa bowed out, giving Novasro sole rights to reprint the stories.  Interestingly, because the title was SO popular in Mexico and the profits so enticing, La Prensa, legally or not in the United States, produced their own Blackhawk stories, by their own writers and artists, etc. under the EL Halcon Negro title.  So, there are Blackhawk stories known only in Spanish.  Also, interstingly, many of these Mexican reprints, were reprinted themselves in an Argentinian comic called Bucaneros, under the title Aquila Negra, or Black Eagle.  Bucaneros was a tinier publication, digest-sized.

I hope this helps!