[3][4] The founders were a group of Spanish cartoonists led by Josep Maria Berenguer.
[5] Josep Maria Berenguer wanted to name the magazine as GOMA 3, a reference to Goma-2, an explosive notoriously used by the Basque terrorist/nationalist organization ETA during the 1970s.
[4][8] Native contributors were Max, Nazario, Mariscal, Pons, and Laura Pérez Vernetti.
[2][9] Of them, Max created the characters of Gustavo, Peter Pank, Gallardo and Mediavilla.
[8] During the COVID-19 pandemic, the magazine was revived online, free of charge, as El Víbora para supervivientes (~ for survivors) for the duration of the lockdown in Spain.