MARVEL CLASSIC COMICS 28
"THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO"
One more with the first all-POE comic since CREEPY #70.
Marvel Comics (at times in its early history sometimes referred to as Timely or Atlas) was always a 2nd-level publisher-- somewhere in the middle as far as quality was concerned-- whose specialty was flooding the market with imitations of whatever was then currently popular.
Bizarrely enough, the 3rd story in MCC #28 had had a sequel done for it at Marvel, before the actual story. Thanks to Don McGregor, this time the original story itself was finally being done.
Another perrenial favorite, the story in question, of course, is...
"THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO".
This was the 11th comics version of this story, following...
EC's CRIME SUSPENSTORIES #3 (Feb-Mar'51),
Gilberton's CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #84 (Jun'51),
Continental's CLASSICOS DE TERROR #1 (1960),
Dell's Movie Classic TALES OF TERROR (Feb'63),
Warren's CREEPY #6 (Dec'65),
Taika's ALBUM CLASSICS DE TERROR #4 (1967),
Mundial's MAESTROS DEL TERROR #1 (1970),
Skywald's SCREAM #5 (Apr'74),
Warren's CREEPY #70 (Apr'75), and
Novaro's CUENTOS DE EDGAR ALLAN POE (1975)
...the last one, about 2 years earlier.
As with the 2 previous stories, the writer, Don McGregor, did the layouts himself. Unlike the other 2, the finished art this time was not by someone from the Phillipines-- but instead, surprisingly, by someone making their professional comics debut-- Michael Golden!
I've long found Golden to have one of the most BIZARRE-looking pencilling styles I've ever seen in "mainstream" comics, and I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that he made his debut in a "horror" story. He's done a wild variety of types of stories in his time, including Man-Bat, G.I. JOE, and the first year of MICRONAUTS, the series he probably really made his mark in the business on. Enjoy!
MARVEL CLASSICS COMICS 28
cover by Gene Colan & Tom Palmer (Marvel / [May] 1977)
Adaptation & Layouts by Don McGregor / Art by MICHAEL GOLDEN
Page 40
But they have been at least twice, overseas...
CLASSICOS DE PAVOR 6 (DREAD CLASSICS)
cover by ?? (Editora Bloch / Brazil / 1977)
cover by ?? (Editora Bloch / Brazil / 1978)
Scans of MARVEL CLASSICS COMICS #28
from my collection!
Scans of CLASSICOS DE PAVOR #6 and HISTORIAS FANTASTICAS #8
from the Guia Dos Quadrinhos site.
Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa
For more:
Read about Edgar Allen Poe at Wikipedia.
Read about Marvel Comics at Wikipedia.
Read about Marvel Classics Comics at Wikipedia.
Read about Don McGregor at Wikipedia.
Visit the Don McGregor website!
Visit the Don McGregor Facebook page!
Read about Michael Golden at Wikipedia.
See more of Michael Golden's art at the Comic Art Community site.
See more of Michael Golden's art at the Comic Art Fans site.
Read about Gene Colan at Wikipedia.
Read about Tom Palmer at Wikipedia.
Read about THE WEIRD CIRCLE radio show at Wikipedia.
Read about the SUSPENSE tv series at Wikipedia.
Read about Bela Lugosi at Wikipedia.
Read about Romney Brent at Wikipedia.
Read about Ray Walston at Wikipedia.
Read about Basil Rathbone at Wikipedia.
Read about THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER at Wikipedia.
Read about Richard Kiley at Wikipedia.
Read about Frances Sternhagen at Wikipedia.
Read about THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO at Wikipedia.
Read the complete story at the xroads.virginia.edu site.
See the AMONTILLADO Gallery of Illustrations.
Audio:
Hear the WEIRD CIRCLE radio episode!
Watch the SUSPENSE TV adaptation!
Hear the Basil Rathbone recording!
Hear the CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER episode!
Comics:
Read the Graham Ingels AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Rudy Palais AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Iger Shop AMONTILLADO sequel!
Read the Gedeone Malagola AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Fran Matera AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Reed Crandall AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Osvaldo Talo AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Juan J. Aguilar AMONTILLADO illustrated story! (coming soon!)
Read the Frank Brunner AMONTILLADO sequel!
Read the Cirilo Munoz AMONTILLADO sequel! (coming soon!)
Read the Maro Nava AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Martin Salvador AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Guido Del Carpio Rivera AMONTILLADO illustrated story!
Read the Don McGregor / Mike Golden AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Arturo Cassilas AMONTILLADO adaptation! (coming soon!)
Read the Noly Zamora AMONTILLADO adaptation!
(Coming soon:)
Read the Pablo Marcos AMONTILLADO illustrated story!
Read the Anne Toulmin-Rothe AMONTILLADO illustrated story!
See my Edgar Allan Poe overview at this very blog!
(Continued in Poe 1977, Pt. 5)
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