Contrary to all other publishing sectors over the past two decades, Spanish comics and graphic novels of the post Franco years have never demonstrated much interest in dealing with the Civil War which tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939. Also surprising, the representations they offer contrast radically with the classic conventional forms of adventure comics exalting war hero figures. Despite their differences, the works studied in the article, Carlos Giménez’s and Antonio Hernández Palacios’s four-volume opuses, depict but one thing, the war’s tragedy.