By 1969 the Cold War was in full effect in South America, with several armed guerrillas promoting rebellions and uprisings.

Some of his recent works were the biographies of Che Guevara and Eva Perón, Vida del Che and Evita, the life and work of Eva Perón respectively, and also "El Astrón de La Plata", which used an alien invasion as an allegory of military dictatorships.

Apologies to Breccia, a great penciller and dare I say artist, but us, in our mission, should not have given ourselves to the esthetic nature of his drawings, which is for moments unintelligibleThe comic was published in Italy and Spain in 1970, in El Globo, and became a success.

Salvo rescues Susana, a young woman trapped in a basement, and Lucas is killed by another survivor who later attacks the house.

The march is difficult because buildings fall down and block most streets, so the army sets a temporary base at the River Plate stadium.

Most of the army is killed in an ambush at Plaza Italia, and only Salvo, Franco, Susana and Favalli manage to escape.

The arrival of Favalli, Lucas, and Polski to play truco confirms Oesterheld that the story was true, and he decides to make a comic book version of it, to warn about the danger.

Hernán Ostuni and Fernando García from Comiqueando consider it a literary classic, defining it as "a work that people talk about even if they haven't actually read it".

[2] They praise both the higher political tone of the story, and the dark and experimental style of Breccia, which they define as lovecraftian horror.