Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Poe 1968, Pt. 5

(Continued from Poe 1968, Pt. 4)

ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR  7
"O CASO DO SENHOR VALDEMAR"

     (IN COLOR  w/ English Translation  /  Conclusion)
          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!!

ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #7 was an ALL-POE comic anthology.

First up, and 17th in line from the publisher, that perennial favorite...

     "THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR"

     This was the 3rd comics adaptation of the story, following...
EC's TALES FROM THE CRYPT #24 (Jun-Jul'51), and  
Dell's Movie Classic, Poe's TALES OF TERROR (Feb'63),
     ...the last one 4 years earlier!

This was one of 8 POE stories that Toni Rodrigues e-mailed me hi-res scans of, all at the same!  I wasn't even aware of its existence until it arrived in the e-mail, along with the others.  Wow.

In translating this, I wound up using more of POE's original words in any other I've done.  It's also the one story in this entire massive POE project for which I have been compelled to do the MOST amount of fixes and changes to the art, to try to bring it up to an acceptable standard.  Despite this, I find the visual storytelling in this to be just about the most monotonous and boring I've seen!  Oh well.  It's no wonder this thing has taken me so long to do.

I originally set this up on 3-16-20163-1/2 years later, I upgraded the lettering, word balloons, skin tones and a lot of the linework.  The "remastered" version was finished on 12-7-2019.

ENJOY! 

ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR  7
cover by NICO ROSSO   (Editora Taika  /  Brazil  /  1968)
"O CASO DO SENHOR VALDEMAR"   
     ("THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR")  /  Version 3
Adaptation by Francisco De Assis  /  Art by "EDEGAR" & IGNACIO JUSTO

Page 16  /  "And now... the EPIC conclusion!"
Page 17
Page 18
Page 19
Page 20
Page 21
Page 22
Page 23
REPRINT:

ALMANAQUE DE CONTOS DE TERROR  1
cover by ??   (Editora Taika  /  Brazil  /  1973)

Copyright (C) Ignacio JustoEditora Taika  &  the various artists. 
English Translation & New Color 
     Copyright (C) 2015 & 2019 Henry R. Kujawa.

Scans of ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #7 from Toni Rodrigues
     with special thanks!

S
can of ALMANAQUE DE CONTOS DE TERROR #1 
     from the Guia Dos Quadrinhos 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.
Visit the Nico Rosso blog!   
R
ead about Ignacio Justo at Lambiek Comiclopedia.
Read about Ignacio Justo at Guia Dos Quadrinhos.

See more covers from Editora Outubro at Nostalgia Do Terror.
See more covers from Editora Taika at Nostalgia Do Terror.


Read about THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR at Study.Com.
Read about THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR at Grade Saver.
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 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 Ignacio Justo & "Edegar" 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

     Misc.:
Read the Ignacio Justo & "Edegar" HOP FROG adaptation!

Read the Ignacio Justo & "Edegar" BERENICE adaptation!
Read the Ignacio Justo & "Edegar" VALDEMAR adaptation!
Read the Ignacio Justo & "Edegar" MAELSTROM adaptation!
Read the Ignacio Justo & "Edegar" ANNABEL LEE adaptation!

Read the Ignacio Justo & "Edegar" IMP adaptation!

See the CHRONOLOGICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
See the ALPHABETICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!

(
Continued in Poe 1968, Pt. 6)

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