CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED 40
Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe / "THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER"
Gilberton's 4th stab at Poe, in CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #40, was the 1st all-Poe comic, containing 3 of his stories in a single issue.
Third and final:
"THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER".
This was the 2nd comics version of this story, following...
Charlton's YELLOWJACKET COMICS #4 (Dec'44)
...some 3 years earlier.
This version would be more than twice as long as the previous one.
After the lengthy flight of fantasy that is "HANS PFALL", now I get to something I've really been looking forward to... the CI version of "HOUSE OF USHER". This is probably one of the most famous and popular of Poe's stories, reflected in the large number of both film and comics adaptations over the decades.
While the other 2 stories each had 1 page CUT from it in the reprints, this one had 2 pages cut! What they did in this case was combine 2 pages into 1, and just remove another page entirely.
Well, fellow "Classics" fans Don Bearden and Tom Kinter sent me scans of the missing pages. This in turn inspired me to do additional clean-ups to the images, some 14 months after I had initially put them up.
So now, the story is INTACT again, as well as MASSIVELY cleaned up!
(This page was originally set up on Thursday, October 23, 2014. I'm moving it to a new page so it will be easier to make changes in the future.)
Enjoy!
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED 40
cover by HENRY C. KIEFER (Gilberton / August 1947)
Adaptation by Samuel Willinsky / Art by HARLEY M. GRIFFITHS
Copyright (C) Gilberton.
Scan of CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #40 cover from the Heritage Auctions site.
Scans of CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #40 interiors from the XXXXXX 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 Harley M. Griffiths at the Lambiek site
See more Harley M. Griffiths art at the Comic Art Fans site.
Read about THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER at Spark Notes.
Read the complete story at the Poe Stories site.
See the HOUSE OF USHER Gallery of Illustrations.
Audio:
Hear the Basil Rathbone HOUSE OF USHER recording!
Hear the Gladys Thornton WEIRD CIRCLE episode!
Hear the Paul Frees ESCAPE episode!
Hear the Kevin McCarthy CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER episode!
Comics:
Read the Gus Schrotter HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Harley M. Griffiths HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Jerry Grandenetti HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Harry Harrison HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Steve Ditko HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the George Evans HOUSE OF USHER illustrated story!
Read the Osvaldo Talo HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Alexis-Thomas Hinsberger HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Tom Sutton HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Dino Battaglia HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Juan Reyes HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Gino Dauro HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Miguel Gomez Esteban HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Carlos Moro HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Maro Navo HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Cirilo Munoz HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Martin Salvador HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Guido Del Carpio Rivera HOUSE OF USHER illustrated story!
Read the Nestor Redondo HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
(Coming soon:)
Read the Pablo Marcos HOUSE OF USHER illustrated story!
Read the Novelas Inmortales HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Arturo Arnau HOUSE OF USHER illustrated story!
Read the E.C. Nickel HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Richard Corben HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the P.Craig Russell / Jay Geldof HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
See the CHRONOLOGICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
See the ALPHABETICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
Gilberton's CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED are currently being reprinted--
go to the CLASSIC COMICS STORE to BUY your own copies!!!
Don't miss the EPIC conclusion... coming up next!!!
(Continued in Poe 1947, Pt. 6)
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