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Chesty Sanchez, is a fictional character and comic book superheroine created by Steve Ross. The character made her first appearance in ''Chesty Sanchez'' #1 (Nov. 1995) published by Antarctic Press.〔(International Hero - Chesty Sanchez )〕 Maria Sanchez was born in a small village near Cuernavaca, Mexico to a father who had prayed for a son. As if to compensate, Maria grew taller and stronger than any other man in her village. Discovered by a wrestling promoter, Maria began her lucha libre career under the tantalizing name "Chesty Sanchez". A scandal forced her to retire and return home to help with her parents' store. Due to her former popularity as a luchadora, the Frijoles de Oro food company approached Maria with an offer to become a real-life superhero and mascot of the Frijoles de Oro company. At most, this was merely a publicity stunt, but Maria agreed in order to help with her parents' expenses. Assisted by several supporting characters, including a side-kick named Trompeto, and utilizing her own athletic fighting ability, Maria has become an established and well respected crime-fighting celebrity in Mexico. ==Publication history== Steve Ross was approached by artist Lyndal Ferguson from ''Rock 'n' Roll Comics'' in the late '80s to create a story for an "all adult" comics anthology he was developing at the time.〔(The Origin of Loca Sanchez (Chesty Sanchez) )〕 Ross created a story which featured more toilet humor than anything explicit and introduced a new "sexy" character for the anthology named Chesty Sanchez. The name itself was intended to be ironic; while the character was curvy and voluptuous, she had very realistic proportions. Much of Chesty's visual design was based on Mexican actresses, singers and pop stars as Ross had wanted to avoid the exaggerated and over-sexed images that plagued female comic characters. Chesty was also one of the few American comics characters to have a lucha libre theme. As there were very few sources of information available in English, Ross relied mostly on classic Mexican wrestling films, including ''Las Luchadoras contra la Momia'' (Wrestling Women vs. The Mummy).〔(Tokyopop.com: Mr. Maskrado's ORIGIN OF LOCA SANCHEZ! )〕 Ross also incorporated influences from classic pulp superheroes such as Zorro, The Domino Lady, The Phantom Detective, and The Spider. Chesty's costume design was based entirely on the classic Mexican mariachi garb, with the exception of the domino mask which was intended as a nod to the aforementioned pulp figures. After completing the story, Lyndal changed his anthology series to a single story-arc, one which did not feature Chesty Sanchez. Steve Ross was able to retain his rights to the newly created character, and presented it to Antarctic Press who was currently publishing his work on the Zetraman series. Antarctic was receptive to the idea and allowed Ross to pursue a three issue mini-series. Steve Ross wrote the script for the planned three-part story-arc, which would feature the origin of the Chesty Sanchez character, while interior artwork was completed by Scott Michaud. The mini-series was first published by Antarctic Press in 1995, which was later compiled into one ninety-six-page special issue. The series is currently on hiatus, although Steve Ross has written a prose story under the more "family-friendly" name of "Loca Sanchez".〔(The Origin of Loca Sanchez (Chesty Sanchez) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chesty Sanchez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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