This is Latino USA, the Radio Journal of News and Culture.

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A show from our archives right here.

Marvel and D.C. do have a history.

A complicated history with cultural representation in their books.

You know, being Latino at the same time, being Chicano, living in Texas.

I was longing for characters that understood me.

From Futurumedia and PRX, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Innojosa. Today, Hector Rodriguez, the creator of El Bezo

Hero, is a comic book superhero who fights Mexican cartels, corrupt officials, and advocates for

migrants on the border. By day, Hector Rodriguez is a schoolteacher in Dallas, Texas, but by night, he's hard at work building up the world of El Pesso Hero.

Launched in 2011, the comic book draws from Ector's imagination and his own experiences growing up on the border.

Historically, there's been very little diversity in mainstream superhero comic books.

The ones whose stories have recently been magnified by the big screen are so few that we can

almost name them all here. In 2011, Miles Morales,

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