CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED 84 (UK)
"THE GOLD BUG"
Thorpe & Porter was an English publisher who licensed Gilberton's immensely-successful CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED. Their editions were virtually identical in appearance, except for the different price listed on the covers, and the fact that they published the stories in a completely-different sequence than they had been in America.
However, they also on occasion published issues that were NEW for their run of the series, which had never been published in America! Which brings us to this rather obscure comic...
"THE GOLD BUG"
Gilberton had tackled POE in CI #17 (Jan'44), #18 (Mar'44), #21 (Jul'44), #40 (Aug'47), and #84 (Jun'51). Most of those stories had been reprinted multiple times, had countless foreign editions published, and are still IN PRINT from a variety of licensors to this day! But the original American series had not done any new POE material since 1951. It strikes me as a bit odd that Thorpe & Porter decided to do "THE GOLD BUG", since that had already been done by Gilberton 11 YEARS earlier!
This was the 7th comics version of this story, following...
Manuel Lainez' TIT-BITS #1991 (Aug'47),
David C. Cook's SUNDAY PIX #1-14 (May 1-July 31, 1949),
Gilberton's CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #84 (Jun'51),
Boy Scouts Of America's BOYS' LIFE (Jul'54),
Empresa Nacional's CAVALEIRO ANDANTE #453 (Sep'60), and
Sea/Novaro's TESORO DE CUENTOS CLASICOS #51 (Nov'61),
.....the last one only 8 months earlier.
The artist is Mick Anglo, who's most well-known as the creator of "Marvelman", the single most popular and successful superhero ever published in England. Created as a replacement for "Captain Marvel" when Fawcett decided to get out of the comics biz, the series ran for 346 issues!
A special thanks to fellow fan Don Bearden, without whom I might never have heard about this book. Don's specialty is "Classics" comics of all varieties, and has supplied me with several entire stories for this project I had been completely unaware of.
(This story was originally posted here on July 6, 2015. I'm moving it to a new page so it will be easier to make changes in the future.)
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED 84
cover by MICK ANGLO (Thorpe & Porter / UK / July 1962)
Adaptation by Alfred Sundel / Art by MICK ANGLO / Page 1
Copyright (C) the various publishers.
Scans of Thorpe & Porter's CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #84
supplied by Don Bearden, with special thanks!
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 Thorpe & Porter at the British Comics Wikia site.
Read some of Thorpe & Porter's comics at the Comic Book Plus site.
Read about Mick Anglo at the Lambiek Comiclopedia site.
Read about THE GOLD BUG at the Bookriot site.
Read the complete story at the Poe Stories site.
See the GOLD BUG Gallery of Illustrations.
Audio:
Hear the Vincent Price GOLD BUG recording!
Hear the FAMILY THEATER episode!
Comics:
Read the Amadio GOLD BUG adaptation! (coming soon)
Read the Joseph Wirt Tillotson GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Alex A. Blum GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Henry Sharp GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Fernando Bento GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Editorial Sea/Novaro GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Mick Anglo GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Alexis-Thomas Hinsberger GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Dino Battaglia GOLD BUG adaptation! (coming soon)
Read the Antonio Calmerio Tomas GOLD BUG adaptation!
(Coming soon:)
Read the Alfonso Font GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Guido Del Carpio Rivera GOLD BUG illustrated story!
Read the Arturo Arnau GOLD BUG illustrated story!
Read the Pablo Marcos GOLD BUG illustrated story!
Read the Novedades Editores GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Silvio Camboni GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Jorge Hardmeier GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Niesa Editores GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Jean-Louis Thouard GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Miguel Serratosa GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the NBM / Papercutz GOLD BUG 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 2nd PART of this... coming up next!!!
(Continued in Poe 1962, Pt. 2)
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