The piece you remember is
SEGUNDA GÉNESIS
(“Second Genesis”), written by Carlos Trillo and drawn by Horacio Altuna.
What it is
• A one-off short story (14 pages) that the two Argentine masters produced in the mid-1970s for the weekly magazine Skorpio.
• It was reprinted many times afterwards, both in Argentina and in Spain, in the big anthology magazines 1984, Zona 84 and Cimoc; that is almost certainly the thick Spanish-language magazine you borrowed in the early 1990s.
• Heavy Metal (U.S.A.), vol. 6 № 9, December 1982, ran the first English version, also titled “Second Genesis”.
Story outline (matches the memories you listed)
Why all the details fit
• Period, place and Jewish children under the Gestapo – exactly as in the comic.
• A single German airman is swept along; his whole plane crashes in the jungle.
• Many years elapse, the children reach puberty in skins, the pilot provides the “forbidden-fruit” lesson, and the professor disappears with him in a last time-jump.
• The punch-line with the kids suddenly called Adam and Evie, and the closing narration equating the tipsy pilot with the biblical Serpent, is reproduced almost verbatim from Trillo’s script.
Where to find it now
• Spanish collections: “Trillo & Altuna – Historias fantásticas” (Toutain Editor), “Altuna – Fábulas” (Planeta/DeAgostini) or the volume “Horacio Altuna – Obras completas 1”.
• English: Heavy Metal magazine, December 1982 issue, or the trade paperback “Time-Travel Tales” (Catalan Communications, 1987).
• French: Métal Hurlant n° 87 (“Seconde Genèse”).
• Italian: L’Eternauta n° 15 (“Seconda Genesi”).
So the WWII time-machine comic that turns its young Jewish protagonists into the legendary Adam and Eve is Carlos Trillo & Horacio Altuna’s SEGUNDA GÉNESIS / SECOND GENESIS.
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