VAMPIRELLA 49
"THE OBLONG BOX"
2 months after CREEPY #76, the next Warren POE adaptation appeared.
Apart from EERIE #11 (Sep'67), #12 (Nov'67) and #20 (Mar'69), and a number
of reprints, all the Warren adaptations had appeared in CREEPY. Until now.
Inexplicably, the last 3 remaining POE stories appeared in other magazines.
2 of them including the one I'm presenting here, turned up in VAMPIRELLA. Which was very odd, considering most stories in that magazine tended to
involve sexy, beautiful women. Why the two that appeared in the magazine
did so, is a mystery to me.
The story in question here was...
"THE OBLONG BOX".
This was the 3rd comics version of this story, following...
McComb's CROWN COMICS #1 (Spring'45), and
Skywald's SCREAM #4 (Feb'74)
...the latter, 25 months earlier.
Art this time is by Isidro Mones. I feel, by a wide margin, that this is the most stunning version of this story to date. This was his 3rd of 3 POE adaptations.
The cover is by one of my favorites, Enrich. Along with Frank Frazetta and Sanjulian, I consider him one of the top 3 Warren horror comics cover artists.
As we enter the home stretch...
this is the 23rd out of 26 Warren POE adaptations!!
VAMPIRELLA 49
cover by ENRICH (Warren Publishing / March 1976)
Adaptation by Richard Margopoulos / Art by ISIDRO MONES / Page 51
VAMPIRELLA 10
cover by ENRICH TORRES (Portugal Press / Portugal / April 15, 1977)
cover by ENRICH (Dynamite Entertainment / May 2013)
Scan of VAMPIRELLA #49 from my collection.
Scan of VAMPIRELLA #10 (Portugal Press) from the GCD site.
Scan of VAMPIRELLA ARCHIVES VOLUME SEVEN
from the Dynamite Comics site.
Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa
For more:
Read about Edgar Allen Poe at The Poe Museum site.
Read about Enrich Torres at AskArt.com.
See more Enrich Torres art at the Comic Art Fans site.
See more Enrich Torres art at the ArtNet site.
See more Enrich Torres art at the Illustrated Gallery site.
See more Enrich Torres art at the Vampilore site.
See more Enrich Torres art at the 1st Dibs site.
Read about Isidro Mones at the Lambiek Comiclopedia site.
Read about THE OBLONG BOX at the Study Com site.
Read the complete short story at the Poe Stories site.
See the OBLONG BOX Gallery of Illustrations.
Audio:
Hear the WEIRD CIRCLE radio episode!
Hear the CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER episode!
Comics:
Read the Alex Blum OBLONG BOX adaptation!
Read the Maro Nava OBLONG BOX adaptation!
Read the Isidro Mones OBLONG BOX adaptation!
See my Edgar Allan Poe overview at this very blog!
(Continued in Poe 1976, Pt. 3)
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