El Aguila - Predecessors

Predecessors

• In Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files, the first known Águila precursor was an Aztec hero known as both Cuauhtli and the Eagle. He had the identity over 1000 years prior to Montoya.
• Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files also identifies the first Spanish speaking Águila to use the name. Not much is known of this Águila.
• Paco Montoya was the Águila of the Old West. He was a Spaniard and the brother of Enrique. He is Alejandro's ancestor. He disappeared in the 1880s but apparently perished in battle with Devadia's Tarantula in the 1890s. He first appeared in The Original Ghost Rider Rides Again #15 and appeared right through until issue #20. Also had an entry in the Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files.
• A Delvadian friend of Paco Montoya took on the mantle of Águila after Montoya's death in the 1890s. First mentioned in Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files.
• The son of the friend of Paco took the role of Águila after his father. He traveled to Spain in the 1930s to oppose the USSR-supported Loyalists. He clashed with and seemingly slew Captain Terror during the Spanish Civil War and eventually returned to Central America and settled in Oroco. He passed the title on to another. First mentioned in Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files.
• In the 1950s, the mantle of Águila was taken on by another descendant while vacationing in the Sierra Madres during the mid-1950s. He encountered and defeated the Ambassador of Terror and vanished soon after while investigating a subterranean coral city beneath the Gulf of Mexico. First mentioned in Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files.
• A Santo Rican, took the mantle of Águila in the 1970s and was an agent of their communist regime. First mentioned in Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files.
• In the 1980s, the next Águila assisted the leftist freedom fighters in Terra Verde and was executed by Caridad's death squads. First mentioned in Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files.