Sangre, oro y ¡gloria! (Blood, Gold and Glory!)

# "Sangre, Oro y Gloria!" by Lucky Marty

This Spanish adventure serial, Issue 47 of Doble Juego (February 1983), opens with a bullfighting tragedy. Matador Julio Cárdenas Paredes receives a fatal goring while killing a fighting bull from the Monte-Alto estate in Seville, dying on the arena floor after twenty years in the profession.

The narrative shifts to his sister Soledad, a poor campesina living on the Monte-Alto lands with three children: Raúl (eighteen, illegitimate), Inés (fourteen), and Marta (ten). After her husband Pedro's death, Soledad struggles to support her family through subsistence farming and Raúl's wages as a bull handler. Following Julio's death and loss of his financial support, Soledad prepares to journey four leagues to the pueblo to resolve unspecified business, instructing Inés to keep Raúl at home until her return. The narrative emphasizes poverty, family obligation, and hints at Soledad's hidden past involving an earlier lover.