[1] The comics focus on Carpanta's perpetual hunger and his usually failed attempts of satiating it.
[3] It was first published in the 4th number of the Spanish weekly illustrated magazine Pulgarcito, being the first strip Trece en la Mesa (Thrirteen at the table).
[3][4] Throughout the 2000s, older stories from the then Editorial Bruguera continued to be published in some newer comic book compilations.
Carapanta is drawn as a virtually bald character, wearing an undefined elongated hat in the character's earlier versions, a black tie, a black-striped shirt, red trousers and a black jacket.
The character in its later versions was drawn with a boater hat with a single red stripe instead[5] Super Carpanta series, from 1977 to 1981.