Offered here is an original painted cover of a Mexican Comic I believe was done by Rafel Gallur (credits on verso of the piece). I am told that this is a cover from Pistolero 91. I have also been informed that Gallur often did the pencils while Iban/Ivan Santillan painted image.
I was unfamiliar with Mexican comics until I discovered some of these paintings on eBay. The actual comic books are out of print, and very hard to find. By and large, these images are far more graphically gory and sexual than you would ever find in American comics.
Rafael Gallur began his career assisting Zótico Fonseca and Carlos Mabridis and published his first work in the newspaper La Prensa. He moved to comic books working for the Edar publishing house (later Vid) doing stories for Mini Terror, Mini Aventuras and Mini Policíaras. He also worked for EJEA on Frank Kein, Posesion Diabolica, and Sangre India. Ultimately Gallur decided to focus on cover paintings, among others for Sensacionales de Lucha, Vaqueros, and Maestros under the pseudonym Garr. He has inked jobs for DC and the 'Star Trek' mini-series, but I believe that he is best known for his cover art for the Ghetto Librettos (small Mexican pulp comic books full of sex and violence) by Editorial Mango, like El Pisolero, Guerreros del Ring and Guerreros Del Ring Especiales.
Like Bazaldua, Gallur is considered one of the best and most prolific comic cover artists in Mexico and lists his influences as John Buscema, and Neal Adams.
I am not sure which comic this came from. El trazo provocador (The Provocative Stroke??) #91 is on the back of the piece.
This particular cover depicts a buxom blond in a bikini shooting a gun at some unseen assailants as her wounded accomplice lies against a dock piling, bleeding from gunshot wounds. As I said... gory. The painting fills the entire 12 x 15.5" piece of art board. Like most of these covers, the art is not signed but the artist is noted on the back. The painting and colors are stunning and the quality is very good... a true bargain in today's art market.
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