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El Eternauta, segunda parte (Spanish: "The Eternaut, second part" is a 1975 comic from Argentina, by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López. A sequel to The Eternaut, it was written during the Dirty War. Oesterheld, a member of the Montoneros guerrilla at the time, was a victim of an enforced disappearance shortly after ending the story.

Plot

The story continues right after the ending of The Eternaut. Oesterheld, who prefers to be called just "Germán", can not accept that Juan Salvo forgot everything, so he storms into his house to try to remind him of what had happened. Germán himself forgets everything, and joins the others to a game of truco. Suddenly, as they regain their memories all the city around the house disappears, replaced by barren countryside. Salvo's friends disappear as well, with only his wife and daughter, Elena and Martita, remaining. Salvo and Germán leave at dawn to try to find supplies, but find nothing. The house is destroyed by a Gurbo, but Elena and Martita managed to escape, and Salvo and Germán follow them to a small group of cavemen. It turns out that they are in the far future, and those cavemen are descendants of the survivors of the original invasion. "They" established their headquarters in a far-away fortress. A Hand shows up and orders the cavemen to surrender all the children in a couple of weeks; "they" are planning to use them as fuel to leave Earth and return to their planet. Salvo proposes instead to start a resistance: with the telephone directory and the map of the city had had at home they locate buried basements and prepare weapons and explosives.

Salvo then organizes a small team to sneak into the enemy fortress and sabotage it from within. It turned out that there was a disagreement between the aliens over the cavemen, and a good alien used their time machines to displace Salvo, with house and all, into that era so that he could help them. Although that alien was killed by the others, Salvo and Germán activate the self-destruction of the fortress and rush to help the cavemen, who were attacked during the infiltration. Elena and Martita died during that attack, and Salvo and Germán suddenly return to their era a few days later.