It was founded in 1910 by Juan Bruguera Teixidó under the name El Gato Negro and specialising in popular literature, joke books and especially in comic magazines.
It came to possess, as indicated by Jesús Cuadrado:An industrial plant (in Parets del Vallès), an advertising division (Nueva Línea), a library (Proa), a distributor (Libresa), stamps subsidiaries (Ceres), several branches in the Spanish territory delegations outside (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Lisbon, Mexico, Portugal, Venezuela), and an internal communication newsletter (Nosotros).
Many works by Maria Dolores Acevedo, a Galician romance and western writer, were published by Editorial Bruguera between 1956 and 1974.
[4] In the field of comics, the role played by the Editorial Bruguera after the Spanish Civil War was fundamental, especially its humor publications.
Comics titles and characters published by Editorial Bruguera included: Since the mid-1960s, they launched new magazines such as Din Dan (1965), Bravo (1968) and Gran Pulgarcito (1969) in which the influence of television is clear.
[5] In the early 1980s, books such as Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez became big best-sellers.
It included stories from fictional characters such as Mortadelo & Filemon, SuperLopez, the naughty twins Zipi and Zape, and Capitán Trueno.
[8] The new version of Zipi and Zape commissioned by Cera y Ramis was canceled in 2002, due to its lack of success.
[9] In March 2011, under the direction of Ernest Folch, he managed to shut down web pages centered on the study of Mortadelo and Filemón, provoking the subsequent controversy on the Internet.
"La Trama" award: Beginning in the year 2014, this Ediciones B's annual contest looks for new writing talent in the categories of thrillers and whodunits.
Los martes nos vemos en B: It consists of uploading a picture of a book cover together with a question.