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comic strips and to illustrate the magazine's short stories, he was obliged to draw 'Trueno Extra' comic books from
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prize for his contribution to comics in 1989, and he would die three years later. Capitán Trueno, and, indeed, the history of
Spanish comics, would be very different without Ambrós' input.
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