Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Poe 1979, Pt. 4

(Continued from Poe 1979, Pt. 3)

AVENTURAS MACABRAS  12
"A MASCARA DA MORTE RUBRA"
     (English translation)

And now for something comparitively normal...

I've been finding more and more foreign POE comics adaptations, many of them that have NEVER been published in America-- or even in English!  I've made it my goal to correct that situation.

Bloch Editores S.A. was a Brazillian publisher from 1952-2000, the creation of Ukrainian emigrant Adolpho Bloch.  In the 1970s, they published Marvel superheroes in a "controversial" digest size.  Among their magazines was AVENTURAS MACABRAS ("Macabre Adventures"), which started out reprinting DRACULA LIVES! and MONSTERS UNLEASHED.

However, for the 12th issue, they switched content completely to NEW material by local Brazillian artists.  This issue in particular was in the tradition of Warren's CREEPY #69 and #70, in that it contained (mosty) adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe!  When I ran across this book online, I was looking for something else entirely, and was both surprised and utterly delighted to find I'd gotten ahold of virtually an ENTIRE comic of POE material I had not before laid eyes on.  Of the 5 stories contained therein, 4 of them were POE adaptations.

The 1st of 4 stories here is the ever-popular...

     "THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH".

     This was the 17th comics version of this story, following...
Marvel's ADVENTURES INTO WEIRD WORLDS #4 (Spring'52),  
Charlton's THE THING #2 (Apr'52),  
Continental's CLASSICOS DE TERROR #9 (1960),  
Marvel's STRANGE TALES #83 (Apr'61),   
Dell's THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Movie Classic (Aug-Oct'64),
Warren's EERIE #12 (Nov'67),  
Taika's ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #3 (1967),  
Marvel's CHAMBER OF DARKNESS #2 (Dec'69),
Promethean's PROMETHEAN ENTERPRISES #2 (May'70),
Milano Libri's LINUS #91 (Oct'72),

Doncel's TRINCA EXTRA DE NAVIDAD (Dec'72),
Skywald's PSYCHO #20 (Aug'74),  
Warren's CREEPY #70 (Apr'75),  
Charlton's HAUNTED #22 (Jun'75),
Warren's CREEPY #73 (Aug'75),  and
Ursus' MACABRO #17 (1975)
     ...the last one some 4 years earlier.  (I guess we were due for a new one.)

The artist on this is Flavio Barbosa Mavignier Colin (or, "Flavio Colin"), one of the most popular cartoonists in Brazil, who in his decades in the business had worked in a variety of styles, ranging from realistic to very "cartoony".  By my count (so far), this would be his 3rd of 4 POE adaptations.  (I'm still looking for scans of 2 of the others.)

The coloring in this comic is quite BOLD and graphic, which is apparently quite popular in Brazil, though I suspect whoever processed these scans cranked the contrast up WAY too high.  I've tried to "tone it down" a bit in my clean-ups, and I hope I haven't lost any of the original intention along the way.

AVENTURAS MACABRAS  12   (MACABRE ADVENTURES  12)
cover by GJOIZ   (Bloch Editores S.A.  /  Brazil  /  1979)
"A MASCARA DA MORTE RUBRA"  
     ("THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH")  /  Version 17
Adaptation by Delmir E. Narutoxde  /  Art by FLAVIO COLIN
English Translation & New Lettering by Henry Kujawa  /  Page 3
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Copyright (C) Flavio Colin  &  Bloch Editores S.A.
English Translation (C) 2015 Henry R. Kujawa

Scans of AVENTURAS MACABRAS #12 from the Minhateca.com site.

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa

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

Read about Flavio Colin at the UniversoHQ site.
Read about Flavio Colin at the Bigorna.net site.
Read about Flavio Colin at the Lambiek Comiclopedia site.
Read about Flavio Colin at the Folha De S.Paulo site.
Visit the Flavio Colin Facebook page!

Read about THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH at the Spark Notes site.
Read about THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH at the Crime Reads site.
Read about THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH at the Slate site.

Read the complete story at the Poe Stories site.
See the RED DEATH Gallery of Illustrations.

     Audio:
Hear the Basil Rathbone recording!
Hear the CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER episode!

      Comics:
Read the Bill Everett RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Bob Forgione RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Manoel Ferreira RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Steve Ditko RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Frank Springer RED DEATH adaptation!
 

Read the Tom Sutton RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Nico Rosso RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Don Heck RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Robert Inwood RED DEATH illustrated story!
Read the Dino Battaglia RED DEATH adaptation!   (coming soon!)

Read the Miguel Calatayud RED DEATH adaptation!   (coming soon!)
Read the Ricardo Villamonte RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Richard Corben RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Wayne Howard RED DEATH adaptation!   (coming soon!)
Read the Esteban Maroto RED DEATH adaptation!   (coming soon!)

Read the Francisco Agras RED DEATH adaptation!   (coming soon!)
Read the Flavio Colin RED DEATH adaptation!
      (Coming soon:)
Read the John Lawn RED DEATH illustrated story!
Read the Auraleon RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Enrique Alcatena RED DEATH illustrated story!

Read the Phillipe Cazaumayou RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Alfonso Martinez RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the A.L. Pareja RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Alberto Breccia RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Daryl Hutchinson RED DEATH adaptation!

Read the Steve Leialoha RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Eric Stanway RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Ted Naifeh RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Horacio Lalia RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Gris Grimly RED DEATH illustrated story!

Read the Stanley Shaw RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Erik Rangel RED DEATH adaption!
Read the Wendy Pini RED DEATH adaptation at the Masque Musical site!
Read the Julio Azamor RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Jean-Louis Thouard RED DEATH adaptation!

Read the Alineromero9 RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Sabaku-No-Sarri RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Eric Stanway RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the David G.Flores RED DEATH illustrated story!
Read the Richard Corben's 2nd RED DEATH adaptation!

Read the Turner Mark-Jacobs RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Edu Molina RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Terrance Lindall RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Pete Katz RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Gareth Hinds RED DEATH adaptation!

Read the Uka Nagao RED DEATH adaptation!

     Misc.:
Read the Flavio Colin BERENICE adaptation!
Read the Flavio Colin MORELLA adaptation!
Read the Flavio Colin RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Flavio Colin METZENGERSTEIN adaptation!

See my Edgar Allan Poe overview at this very blog!

(Continued in Poe 1979, Pt. 5

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