CLASSICOS DE TERROR 9
"O POCO E O PENDULO"
(IN COLOR w/ English Translation)
(REMASTERED)
Editora Continental / Outubro / Taika were 3 names used by the same small publisher in Brazil. The work of artists Jayme Cortez & Miguel Penteado, they produced some wonderful comics, many of them in the horror genre, each doing many gorgeous, stunning cover paintings!
I have discovered, between my own researches and the IMMENSE help of artist and fellow fan Toni Rodrigues, that Continental / Outubro / Taika during their run produced at least 25 POE adaptations-- MORE than Skywald or Warren !! It's my intention to compile, clean up, TRANSLATE and COLOR every one of these for my POE blog project!!
3rd in line, another version of that popular favorite...
"THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM".
This is the 6th comics version of this story, following...
Charlton's YELLOWJACKET COMICS #3 (Nov'44),
Gilberton's CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #40 (Aug'47),
Marvel's SPELLBOUND #2 (Apr'52),
Youthful's BEWARE #10 (Jun'52),
Ziff-Davis's NIGHTMARE #2 (Fall'52),
...the last one 8 years earlier. There would be MANY more to come!
I ran across this during my search, reprinted in 2 different comics-- CLASSICOS DE TERROR #5 (Editora Taika / Jun'73) and ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #1 (Editora Taika / Dec'66). In one, the line reproduction was HORRIBLE. In the other-- it was WORSE!! This is a common problem among reprints, when a company does work that's very slipshod, and can't be bothered to use the original art, stats or negatives, and winds up generating copies of copies of copies, like a photocopy machine that hasn't been tuned up in months on end. As an example, Marvel Comics' reprints had been AWFUL for decades. It was no wonder the original books were so pricey on the back-issue market, even before "investors" got involved and ruined the hobby.
I was planning to use the one that was "only" horrible... when Toni Rodrigues e-mailed HI-RES scans of the original 1960 printing. WHOA!!! The difference was STAGGERING. And everyone who reads this blog is going to benefit from it!
The story is the work of Gedeone Malagola. He is mainly known as one of the most important comics writers of Brazil (alongside R.F. Lucchetti), who was responsible for creating many popular characters, while also occasionally doing art, tending to imitate the styles of several Amercian cartoonists when he did, including Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino & John Prentice. He also worked as a policeman and did comics on the side (not unlike Peter Morisi here in the States).
This is his 2nd of 3 POE adaptations.
CLASSICOS DE TERROR 9
cover by JAYME CORTEZ MARTINS (Editora Continental / Brazil / 1960)
("THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM") / Version 6
Adaptation & Art by GEDEONE MALAGOLA / Page 17
I can't figure this total lack of style in this issue's logo...
ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR 1
cover by NICO ROSSO (Editora Taika / Brazil / December 1966)
cover by JOSE EVALDO (Editora Taika / Brazil / June 1973)
cover by JAYME CORTEZ MARTINS (Editora Taika / Brazil / 1975)
English Translation & new color Copyright (C) 2015 Henry R. Kujawa.
Scans of CLASSICOS DE TERROR #9 supplied by Toni Rodrigues
with special thanks!
Scan of ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR # 1 (1966)
from the Guia Dos Quadrinhos database site, with thanks to Nikki Nixon!
Scan of CLASSICOS DE TERROR #5 (1973)
from the QuadriBrasil site.
Scan of SELECOES DE TERROR #29 (1975)
from the Mercado Livre site.
Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa
For more:
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at The Poe Museum site.
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at the Biography site.
Read about Editora Continental / Outubro / Taika at Guia Dos Quadrinhos.
Read about Gedeone Malagola at the Lambiek Comiclopedia site.
Read about Gedeone Malagola at the Guia Dos Quadrinhos site.
Visit the Jayme Cortez blog!
See more covers from Editora Outubro at the Nostalgia Do Terror site.
See more covers from Editora Taika at the Nostalgia Do Terror site.
Read about THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM at the Spark Notes site.
Read about THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM at the Cliff Notes site.
Read about THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM at the Shmoop site.
Read the complete story at the Poe Stories site.
See the PENDULUM Gallery of Illustrations.
Audio / Video:
Hear the Basil Rathbone PIT AND THE PENDULUM recording!
See the Vincent Price PIT AND THE PENDULUM performance!
Hear the Henry Hull SUSPENSE episode! (ep. 24 / 1-12-1943)
Hear the Jose Ferrer SUSPENSE episode! (ep. 273 / 11-28-1947)
Hear the Vincent Price SUSPENSE episode! (ep.724 / 11-10-1957)
Hear the Raymond Burr SUSPENSE episode! (ep.805 / 6-7-1959)
Hear the Tony Roberts CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER episode! (3-4-1975)
Comics:
Read the Gus Schrotter PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the August M. Froehlich PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Russ Heath PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Doug Wildey PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Everett Raymond Kinstler PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Gedeone Malagola PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Frank Bellamy PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Ruben Lara Romero PENDULUM adaptation!
See the Pablo Marcos PENDULUM tribute!
Read the Ricardo Villamonte PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Jose Ortiz PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the De La Rosa PENDULUM adaptation! (coming soon!)
Read the Guido Del Carpio Rivera PENDULUM illustrated story!
(coming soon)
Read the Rudy Mesina PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Gerry Talaoc PENDULUM adaptation!
Misc:
Read the Gedeone Malagola CASK OF AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Gedeone Malagola PIT AND THE PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Gedeone Malagola PREMATURE BURIAL adaptation!
See the CHRONOLOGICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
See the ALPHABETICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
(Continued in Poe 1961, Pt. 1)
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