LINUS 39
"IL DUPLICE DELITTO DELLA VIA MORGUE"
(IN COLOR w/ English Translation)
Milano Libri Edizione was a publisher in Italy active in the 1960s & 70s. LINUS was possibly the 1st all-comics magazine published in Italy, and contained, among its features, PEANUTS, BARNEY GOOGLE, LI'L ABNER, POGO, B.C., THE WIZARD OF ID, POPEYE, as well as numerous features original to Italy.
Among them were a number of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations.
First up, one of my recent acquisitions...
"THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE"
This was the 3rd version of the story, following...
Gilberton's CLASSIC COMICS #21 (Jul'44), and
Marvel's LAWBREAKERS ALWAYS LOSE #10 (Oct'49),
...the latter some 19 years earlier!
The art this time was by Guido Crepax. No doubt his most famous creation is VALENTINA, a sexy female character whose look was based on silent film actress Louise Brooks. I first ran across Crepax' work in HEAVY METAL magazine.
This was his 1st of 3 Poe adaptations.
All 3 have been reprinted multiple times, but never translated into English until 2016, as part of a brand-new collection series from Fantagraphics Books. I heard about this before-the-fact, and considered waiting until it came out to save myself some trouble. However, the cost of the books was so high, there was no way I could afford it. Ironically, I found I WAS able to afford to buy a copy of the original 1968 magazine!!! I'm really glad I did. It's a large-format, and quite thick-- like TIME magazine-- except, printed entirely on high-quality newsprint, which is still bright white after all these decades. Although I can't read Italian, I'm still thrilled to have gotten an example of the actual magazine. And, of course, with Google Translate, I can create MY OWN English version myself.
In the long run, the Fantagraphics edition has been delayed so many months, that I finished MY translation before they published theirs.
Yep-- I BEAT them to it!!! Plus, mine's in COLOR! Enjoy.
LINUS 39
cover by CHARLES SCHULZ (Milano Libri Edizione / Italy / June 1968)
("THE DOUBLE CRIME OF MORGUE STREET")
("THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE") / Version 3
Adaptation & Art by GUIDO CREPAX / Page 78
Here's a trio of stand-alone illustrations he did way back in 1951!!!
"LADY LIGEIA"
TOTEM BIBLIOTECA 3:
VALENTINA PRESENTA: POE - H - ANITA
cover by GUIDO CREPAX (Nueva Frontera, S.A. / Spain / 1979)
cover by GUIDO CREPAX (Editori Del Grifo / Italy / 1994)
cover by GUIDO CREPAX (Edito Da Excalibur / Italy / May 1999)
(Limited edition / 333 numbered copies)
cover by GUIDO CREPAX (Courriere Della Sera / Italy / March 2007)
cover by GUIDO CREPAX (Black Velvet / Italy / January 2011)
Vol.17: VALENTINA NOIR: STORIE NERE A LUCI ROSS
cover by GUIDO CREPAX (Mondadori Comics / Italy / April 2015)
cover by GUIDO CREPAX (Fantagraphics / January 31, 2018)
English Translation & New Color Copyright (C) 2016 Henry R. Kujawa.
Scans of LINUS #39 from my collection.
Scans of...
"Lady Ligeia" (1951) from the Comic Art Fans site,
special thanks to "Mister Fantastic".
"Il Cuore Rivelatore" (1951) from the Live Auctioneers site.
"Gli Assassinii Di Via Morgue" (1951) from the Anobii.com site.
BIBLIOTECA 3: POE-H-ANITA from the Todo Collecion site.
EDGAR ALLAN POE: 3 GALLI from the Raimondi Campbell site.
GUIDO CREPAX DISEGNA RACCONTI EDGAR ALLAN POE
from the Anobii.,com site.
VALENTINA 7: ASSASSINI ALTRA STORIE from the Slumberland site.
JEKYLL E ALTRI CLASSICI DELLA LETTERATURA
from the Comics Babylonia site.
GUIDO CREPAX EROTICA 17: VALENTINA NOIR:
STORIE NERE A LUCI ROSSE from the "MC" 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 Guido Crepax at Lambiek Comiclopedia.
Read about Guido Crepax at The Comics Journal site.
Read about THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE at the Spark Notes site.
Read about THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE at the Britannica site.
Read the complete story at the Poe Museum site.
See the RUE MORGUE Gallery of Illustrations.
Audio:
Hear the WEIRD CIRCLE radio episode!
Hear the Paul Hecht CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER episode!
Comics:
Read the Arnold L. Hicks RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the Sam Gross RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the Guido Crepax RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the Gino Dauro RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the Miguel Gomez Esteban RUE MORGUE adaptation! (coming soon!)
Read the Cezar Lopez Vera RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the Illustrated Classics RUE MORGUE adaptation! (coming soon!)
Read the Jose Ortiz RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the E.R. Cruz RUE MORGUE adaptation!
(Coming soon:)
Read the Moises Cespedes RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the Ediciones Maisal RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the Howard Priestley RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the Mark A. Nelson RUE MORGUE sequel!
Read the Silvio Camboni RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the Matt Brooker RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the Reno Maniquis RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the Emerson Dimaya RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the Ola Skogang RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the Richard Corben RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Read the Leandro Fernandez RUE MORGUE adaptation!
Misc.:
Read the Guido Crepax RUE MORGUE adaptation!
(Coming soon:)
Read the Guido Crepax MARIE ROGET adaptation!
Read the Guido Crepax PURLOINED LETTER adaptation!
See the CHRONOLOGICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
See the ALPHABETICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
Visit The FANTAGRAPHICS website to BUY
THE COMPLETE CREPAX volumes as they are released!!
(Continued in Poe 1968, Pt. 18)
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