A portrait of social typologies of Spain from the 50’s through El DDT contra las penas

Abstract

Traditionally, the comic has been considered a cultural form targeted to children, and their use had been overlooked in historical studies until different researchers began to claim the comic both as an historiographical for as a reference and as a resource for diachronic and synchronic analysis. In the present study, we develop an analysis of the possibilities of study of social stereotypes showed from one of the basic humorous publications of the 50’s, El DDT contra las penas, published by Editorial Bruguera, indicating how the different characters that appear in its pages can be classified into social types that can be easily identifiable with real social stereotypes of the time period and, therefore, be of historiographical utility for the sociological analysis of the Spain of the 50’s.