Friday, March 27, 2015

Poe 1975, Pt.15

(Continued from Poe 1975, Pt.14)

CREEPY  70
"BERENICE"


2 months and 1 issue after Warren did an all-POE issue of CREEPY, they did another one, making for a total of 13 POE stories in only 5 months from them!  It blows my mind to think that in all the years I've been a fan of Warren's output, I was never aware of these issues-- and never had them in my collection.  Well, at least thanks to the internet, I have finally been able to read their contents-- and, share them with whoever is reading this blog!

We now come to the 6th and final story in CREEPY #70...

     "BERENICE".

     This was the 7th comics version of this, following...
Outubro's CLASSICOS OF TERROR #8 (1962),  
Warren's EERIE #11 (Sep'67),
Taika's ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #6 (1968),  
Populares' EL MONJE LOCO #74 (April 30, 1969),
Vilmar's PANICO #21 (May'74), and  
Skywald's SCREAM #7 (Jul'74),
     ...the latter some 9 months earlier.

This was also the 3rd of 5 POE stories that Warren had done in the late 60s that they wound up doing new versions of in the 70s.  (Which may explain why no one has EVER done a truly "complete" set of Warren POE stories in any one place... until this blog!)  Strangely enough, all 3 stories from EERIE were later redone (and they seem to be often ignored when it comes to reprint collections).

Art this time is by Isidro Mones.  This was his 2nd of 3 POE adaptations.

Once more, for those keeping score...  this is the 20th out of 26 Warren POE adaptations!!

CREEPY 70
cover by KEN KELLY   (Warren Publishing  /  April 1975)
"BERENICE"  /  Version 7
Adaptation by Richard Margopoulos  /  Art by ISIDRO MONES  /  Page 49
Page 50
Page 51
Page 52
Page 53
Page 54
Page 55
Page 56
And that brings us to the end of Warren's 2nd All-POE issue of CREEPY!
Except, for the reprints...

CREEPY  25
cover by KEN KELLY   (Publicness  /  France  /  1975)
CREEPY  10
cover by KEN KELLY   (K.G. Murray  /  February 1976)
This book from Portugal contains 6 of the Warren POE stories from the 70s.

KRIPTA APRESENTA EDGAR ALLAN POE
cover by ??   (RGE  /  Rio Grafica Editora Globo  /  Portugal  /  June 1980)
CREEPY RINDE TRIBUTO A EDGAR ALLAN POE
cover by RICHARD CORBEN   (Toutain Editor  /  Spain  /  1980)
EDGAR POE
cover by RICHARD CORBEN   (Volksverlag  /  Germany  /  1981)
A sample page in German.
EDGAR ALLAN POE  /  CREEPY SPECIAL
cover by RICHARD CORBEN   (Semic Press  /  The Netherlands  /  1982)
Sadly, the reproduction in Warren's own reprint of this story was inconsistent (translation: TERRIBLE).  But, this is where I took most of the scans from.
This was actually the next-to-last issue before Warren went belly-up.

CREEPY  144
cover by FRANK FRAZETTA   (Warren  /   January 1983)
CREEPY ARCHIVES  Volume Fifteen
cover by KEN KELLY   (Dark Horse Comics  /  February 2013)
Copyright (C) Warren Publishing  and  the various publishers.

Scan of CREEPY #70 from the Heritage Auctions site.
Scans of CREEPY #70 interior ORIGINAL ART (Page 49)
     from the Heritage Auctions site.
Scan of CREEPY #25 (France) from eBay.
Scans of CREEPY #144 from my collection.
Scan of CREEPY #10 (K.G. Murray) from the AusReprints site.
Scan of KRIPTA APRESENTA EDGAR ALLAN POE
     from the Gibihouse site.
Scan of CREEPY RINDE TRIBUTO A EDGAR ALLAN POE
     from the Whakoom.com site.
Scan of EDGAR POE from the Mexifast.com site.
Scan of EDGAR POE interior page from the Monster Magazine World blog.
Scans of the CREEPY SPECIAL from the Catawiki.com site.
Scan of CREEPY ARCHIVES VOLUME FIFTEEN from the GCD site.

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa

For more:
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at The Poe Museum site.

Read about Berenice at the Old Style Tales site.
Read the complete story at the Poe Stories site.

See the BERENICE Gallery of Illustrations.

Hear the Vincent Price recording!
Hear the CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER episode!

Read the Flavio Colin BERENICE adaptation!
Read the Jerry Grandenetti BERENICE adaptation!
Read the Edegar & Ignacio Justo BERENICE adaptation!
Read the Carlos Moro BERENICE adaptation!
Read the Agustin Carrasco BERENICE adaptation!   (coming soon!)

Read the Ricardo Villamonte BERENICE adaptation!
Read the Isidro Mones BERENICE adaptation!
     (Coming soon:)
Read the Vicente Cebello Peinado BERENICE adaptation!
Read the Richard Corben BERENICE adaptation!
Read the Omar Hirsig BERENICE adaptation!

Read the Alineromero9 BERENICE adaptation!
Read the Jose Pimentel Neto BERENICE adaptation!
Read the Nelson Evergreen BERENICE adaptation!
Read the Jack Bertram BERENICE adaptation!
Read the Luca Frasca BERENICE adaptation!

See my Edgar Allan Poe overview at this very blog!

(Continued in Poe 1975, Pt.16)

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