Poe 1969, Pt. 6

(Continued from Poe 1969, Pt. 5)

MINI TERROR  132
"LA CASA DE USHER"
     (IN COLOR  w/ English Translation)

Editorial Argumentos, S.A. was a publisher in Mexico, active in the 1960s to the 1980s.  One of the things they specialized in was mini-comics.  Much smaller than digests, these books were 2-7/8" x 4-1/2", small enough to fit in your shirt pocket!

A popular series from them was MINI TERROR, an anthology that ran from 1966-82 for at least 839 issues.  As you might have guessed, among them were several POE adaptations!

First up:

     "THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER"

     This was the 11th comics version of this story, following...
Charlton's YELLOWJACKET COMICS #4 (Dec'44),  
Gilberton's CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #40 (Aug'47),
Register & Tribune's THE SPIRIT (Aug'48),
EC's THE VAULT OF HORROR #13 (Jun-Jul'50),
Prize's BLACK MAGIC #28 (Jan-Feb'54),
EC's TERROR ILLUSTRATED #1 (Nov'Dec'55),
Taika's ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #5 (1967),
Serg's 3 HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRES (1968), and
Warren's EERIE #20 (Mar'69), and
Milano Libri Edizioni's LINUS #50 (May'69)
     ...the previous one earlier this same month!

I had already acquired 2 of these books when Cecilio Gonzalez in Mexico found this on February 17, 2020.  He bought it, and didn't want to sell it to me, but said he's send me HIGH-RES scans.  What a guy!

I like the style of the art, I can tell Juan Reyes put a lot of work into this.  Unfortunately, because it was SHRUNK down to such a small size when printed, the linework got very broken-up and fuzzy.  The way around this was for me to go the completely-insane route... and RE-INK all the faces (and a lot of the figures) in the entire book.  Doing so caused this to become the single MOST time-consuming story thus far in this entire Poe project.  I finally finished it on February 2, 2022.

As it turns out, while Dell Comics never adapted Roger Corman's version of the story, THIS obscure foreign mini-comic DOES!  This is obvious early-on, when the visitor to the mansion is there to see Madelina, and has never met her brother Rodrigo before.

ENJOY!

MINI TERROR  132
cover by ??   (Editorial Argumentos, S.A.  /  EDAR  /  Mexico  /  May 10, 1969)

"LE CASA DE USHER"
     ("THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER")  /  Version 11
Adaptation by Javier Reyna G.  /  Art by JUAN REYES  / 
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Don't go away!  Our story will continue...

Copyright (C) Editorial Argumentos,  S.A.
English Translation & New Color Copyright (C) 2022 Henry R. Kujawa.

Scans of MINI TERROR #132
     from Cecilio Gonzalez with special thanks!

For more:
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at The Poe Museum site.
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at the Biography 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.

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

Don't miss the 2nd PART of this... coming up next!!! 

(Continued in Poe 1969, Pt. 7)