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Harriet Barber

Netflix series reignites search for family of creator disappeared by Argentina dictatorship

people walk on a street in a scene from a show
Ricardo Darin in a scene from Netflix’s The Eternaut. Photograph: Netflix/Reuters

When Héctor Germán Oesterheld wrote his horror comic strip El Eternauta in 1957, it was simply a piece of speculative fiction.

Set in Buenos Aires, the story begins when toxic snow begins to fall, killing all of those it touches. As the world descends into chaos, humans turn on one another, and the hero is forced to fight to survive.

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