ABSTRACT
The Spanish version of Creepy magazine, published through the first years of the 1980s, mixed foreign authors (mostly Americans) with vernacular writers and artists. The Spanish authors were able to slip subtle references to Spain’s dictatorship and state of affairs. One particular series, Santiago Segura’s “Las mil caras de Jack el destripador,” allegorized the “end of history” and cultural amnesia favored by “la movida Española.” Through the eternal return of the British criminal Jack the Ripper, now embodied in multiple common citizens, the series tapped into the “de-politicized” Spanish 1980s.
