AVENTURAS MACABRAS 12
"O CASO DO VALDEMAR"
(English translation)
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. Among their magazines was AVENTURAS MACABRAS ("Macabre Adventures"), which started out reprinting Marvel's DRACULA LIVES! and MONSTERS UNLEASHED.
For the 12th issue, they switched content completely to NEW material by local Brazillian artists. This issue 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.
The 2nd of 4 stories here is the ever-popular...
"THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR".
This was the 8th version of this, following...
EC's TALES FROM THE CRYPT #24 (Jun-Jul'51),
Dell's TALES OF TERROR Movie Classic (Feb'63),
Taika's ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #7 (1967),
Populares' EL MONJE LOCO #141 (August 12, 1970),
Doncel's TRINCA #8 (1971),
Skywald's PSYCHO #21 (October 1974), and
Warren's CREEPY #69 (Feb'79)
...the last one some 4 years earlier. (I guess we were due for a new one.)
The artist on this is Julio Shimamoto.
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
cover by GJOIZ (Bloch Editores S.A. / Brazil / 1979)
("THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR") / Version 8
Adaptation by Jota Santana / Art by JULIO SHIMAMOTO / Page 13
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 Wikipedia.
Read about Bloch Editores at Wikipedia.
Read about Adolpho Bloch at Wikipedia.
Read about Julio Shimamoto at Wikipedia.
Visit the Julio Shimamoto Facebook page!
Read about Basil Rathbone at Wikipedia.
Read about THE WEIRD CIRCLE radio show at Wikipedia.
Read about THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER at Wikipedia.
Read about THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR at Wikipedia.
Read the complete story at the Poe Stories site.
See the VALDEMAR Gallery of Illustrations.
Audio:
Hear the WEIRD CIRCLE episode!
Hear the Basil Rathbone CASE OF M. VALDEMAR recording!
Hear the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre PREMATURE BURIAL episode!
(including THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR)
(thanks to "Quote Away")
Comics:
Read the Graham Ingels VALDEMAR adaptation!
Read the George Evans VALDEMAR adaptation!
Read the "Edegar" & Ignacio Justo VALDEMAR adaptation!
Read the Carlos Moro VALDEMAR adaptation! (coming soon!)
Read the Carlos Gimenez VALDEMAR adaptation!
Read the Jose Cardona VALDEMAR adaptation!
Read the Isidro Mones VALDEMAR adaptation!
Read the Julio Shimamoto VALDEMAR adaptation!
(Coming soon:)
Read the Alberto Breccia VALDEMAR adaptation!
Read the Joan Boix VALDEMAR adaptation!
See my Edgar Allan Poe overview at this very blog!
(Continued in Poe 1979, Pt. 6)
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