HI:
just arriving to the forum and the site, skimming this thread and it is amazingly good. Promise to read it more carefully and help with info on south american and spanish comics. Prticularly of interset is the very intermingled
In case of photo comics, yeah it was very sucessful form the 50's to the 80's in Italy, France, Spain and Latin America. They were mostly the equivalent of romance comics but then they divertedi n any kind of genre, from detective, to historicalto horror and mystery with sadistic touches.
MOre info soon i promise =)
Adios, amigos!