Poe 1974, Pt. 2

(Continued from Poe 1974, Pt. 1)

SCREAM  5
"THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO"
     "THE CONQUEROR WORM"
          "THE HAUNTED PALACE"

Skywald Publications was the work of Sol Brodsky & Israel Waldman.  While they had a small run of color comics designed to imitate Marvel, their biggest output and claim to fame were their B&W "Horror-Mood" magazines, done very much in the mode of James Warren's CREEPY and EERIE.

Al Hewetson, a writer & editor, soon joined the company and eventually became full editor when Brodsky returned to Marvel.  Hewetson determined to give Skywald's horror line a more "literate" feel than Warren's had, resulting in, among other things, no less than 19 Edgar Allan Poe adaptations between 1972-75.

Here we come to the 5th of these...

     "THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO".

     This was the 8th comics version of this story, following...
EC's CRIME SUSPENSTORIES #3 (Feb-Mar'51),
Gilberton's CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #84 (Jun'51),
Continental's CLASSICOS DE TERROR #1 (1960),  
Dell's Movie Classic TALES OF TERROR (Feb'63),  
Warren's CREEPY #6 (Dec'65),
Taika's ALBUM CLASSICS DE TERROR #4 (1967), and
Mundial's MAESTROS DEL TERROR #1 (1970)
     ...the last one a mere 2 months earlier!.

This would be the 3rd of 3 consecutive Poe stories with art by Maro Nava.

This issue also contained a 2-page vignette that combined a pair of Poe poems-- "The Conqueror Worm" and "The Haunted Palace".  Thanks to American International Pictures' marketing department, there exists a pair of feature films with those titles, but which, arguably, have nothing whatsoever to do with the source material.  Oh well! At any rate, Skywald editor Al Hewetson decided to combine the two into a single piece, and as it takes up so little space, I saw no reason to set up a separate page for it.  Art is by Domingo Gomez...  whoever HE might be!

SCREAM  5
cover by FERNANDO FERNANDEZ   (Skywald Publications  /  April 1974)

"THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO"  /  Version 8
Adaptation by Al Hewetson  /
Art by MARO NAVA  /  Page 19

Page 20

Page 21

Page 22

Page 23

Page 24

Page 25

"THE CONQUEROR WORM and THE HAUNTED PALACE"  /  Version 1
adaptation by Al Hewetson  /  art by DOMINGO GOMEZ  /  Page 33

Page 34

Eternity Comics, for a few years, was a very successful small publisher, who split their output between a number of original series, licensed series, and reprints of old comics.  This included quite of few of the Poe stories from Skywald!  "The Cask Of Amontillado" was reprinted here...

EDGAR ALLAN POE:  
     THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE And Other Stories #1
cover by BROOKS HAGAN  (Eternity Comics  /  March 1989)

"The Conqueror Worm and The Haunted Palace" was reprinted here...

EDGAR ALLAN POE:  
     THE BLACK CAT And Other Stories #1
cover by BROOKS HAGAN  (Eternity Comics  /  March 1989)

Copyright (C) Skywald Publishing.

Scan of SCREAM #5 cover from the GCD site.
Scans of SCREAM #5 interiors from the Scribdassets blog.
     Special thanks to ??.
Scan of THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH And Other Stories #1
     from my collection.

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa

For more:
Read about Edgar Allen Poe at Wikipedia.

Read about Skywald Publications at Wikipedia.
Read about Sol Brodsky at Wikipedia.
Read about Al Hewetson at Wikipedia.
See more of Fernando Fernandez' work at the Ragged Claws site.
Read about Jerry Grandenetti at Wikipedia.

Read about THE WEIRD CIRCLE radio show at Wikipedia.
Read about the SUSPENSE tv series at Wikipedia.
Read about Bela Lugosi at Wikipedia.
Read about Romney Brent at Wikipedia.
Read about Ray Walston at Wikipedia.
Read about Basil Rathbone at Wikipedia.
Read about THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER at Wikipedia.
Read about Richard Kiley at Wikipedia.
Read about Frances Sternhagen at Wikipedia.

Read about THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO at Wikipedia.
Read the complete story at the xroads.virginia.edu site.
See the AMONTILLADO Gallery of Illustrations.

     Audio:
Hear the WEIRD CIRCLE radio episode!
Watch the SUSPENSE TV adaptation!
Hear the Basil Rathbone recording!
Hear the CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER episode!

     Comics:
Read the Graham Ingels AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Rudy Palais AMONTILLADO adaptation!
      Read the Iger Shop AMONTILLADO sequel!
Read the Gedeone Malagola AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Fran Matera AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Reed Crandall AMONTILLADO adaptation!

Read the Osvaldo Talo AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Juan J. Aguilar AMONTILLADO illustrated story!   (coming soon!)
     Read the Frank Brunner AMONTILLADO sequel!
     Read the Cirilo Munoz AMONTILLADO sequel!   (coming soon!)
Read the Maro Navo AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Martin Salvador AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Guido Del Carpio Rivera AMONTILLADO illustrated story!

Read the Don McGregor / Mike Golden AMONTILLADO adaptation!
Read the Arturo Cassilas AMONTILLADO adaptation!   (coming soon!)
Read the Noly Zamora AMONTILLADO adaptation!
     (Coming soon:)
Read the Pablo Marcos AMONTILLADO illustrated story!
Read the Anne Toulmin-Rothe AMONTILLADO illustrated story!

     "The Conqueror Worm":
Read about THE CONQUEROR WORM at Wikipedia.
Read the poem at the Poetry Foundation site.

Read the Domingo Gomez CONQUEROR WORM adaptation!
Read the Gahan Wilson CONQUEROR WORM adaptation!   (coming soon!)
Read the Richard Corben CONQUEROR WORM adaptation!   (coming soon!)
Read the 2nd Richard Corben CONQUEROR WORM adaptation!
     (coming soon!)

     "The Haunted Palace":
Read about THE HAUNTED PALACE at Wikipedia.
Read the poem at the Poetry Foundation site. 
Hear Basil Rathbone's HAUNTED PALACE recording!

Read the Domingo Gomez HAUNTED PALACE adaptation!
Read the Gahan Wilson HAUNTED PALACE adaptation!   (coming soon!)
Read the John Coulthart HAUNTED PALACE adaptation!   (coming soon!)

See my Edgar Allan Poe overview at this very blog!

(Continued in Poe 1974, Pt. 3)

Poe 1974, Pt. 1

(Continued from Poe 1973, Pt. 7)

SCREAM  4
"THE OBLONG BOX"

Skywald Publications was the work of Sol Brodsky & Israel Waldman.  While they had a small run of color comics designed to imitate Marvel, their biggest output and claim to fame were their B&W "Horror-Mood" magazines, done very much in the mode of James Warren's CREEPY and EERIE.

Al Hewetson, a writer & editor, soon joined the company and eventually became full editor when Brodsky returned to Marvel.  Hewetson determined to give Skywald's horror line a more "literate" feel than Warren's had, resulting in, among other things, no less than 19 Edgar Allan Poe adaptations between 1972-75.

Here we come to the 4th of these...

     "THE OBLONG BOX".

This was the 2nd comics version of this story, coming 29 YEARS after McComb's CROWN COMICS #1 (Spring'45).  Boy, it took long enough!

This would be the 2nd of 3 consecutive Poe stories with art by Maro Nava.

I imagine anyone reading this after having seen the American International Picture film with Vincent Price must have been surprised or confused, as that film has pretty much NOTHING to do with the original story.  By comparison, I've found 2 completely different radio adaptations, both of which managed to at least use the short story as their basis, while adding a lot of additional material on the way.  Be sure to check them out at the links at the bottom.

SCREAM  4
cover by FRANCISCO JAVIER GONZALEZ VILANOVA
     (Skywald Publications  /  February 1974)

"THE OBLONG BOX"  /  Version 2
Adaptation by Al Hewetson  /
Art by MARO NAVA  /  Page 14

Page 15

Page 16

Page 17

Page 18

Page 19

Page 20

Eternity Comics, for a few years, was a very successful small publisher, who split their output between a number of original series, licensed series, and reprints of old comics.  This included quite of few of the Poe stories from Skywald!

EDGAR ALLAN POE:  
     THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH And Other Stories #1
cover by BROOKS HAGAN  (Eternity Comics  /  December 1988)

Copyright (C) Skywald Publishing.

Scan of SCREAM #4 cover from the GCD site.
Scans of SCREAM #4 interiors from the Back From The Depths blog.
     Special thanks to Ghastly McNasty.
Scan of THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH And Other Stories #1
     from my collection.

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa

For more:
Read about Edgar Allen Poe at The Poe Museum site.

Read about Skywald Publications at the CBR site.
Read about Sol Brodsky at the Lambiek Comiclopedia site.
Read an interview with Al Hewetson at the Superggraphics blogspot.
Read about Fracisco Javier Gonzalez Vilanova
     at the Lambiek Comiclopedia site.

Read about THE OBLONG BOX at the Study Com site.
Read the complete short story at the Poe Stories site.
See the OBLONG BOX Gallery of Illustrations.

     Audio:
Hear the WEIRD CIRCLE radio episode!
Hear the CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER episode! 

     Comics:
Read the Alex Blum OBLONG BOX adaptation!
Read the Maro Nava OBLONG BOX adaptation!
Read the Isidro Mones OBLONG BOX adaptation!

See my Edgar Allan Poe overview at this very blog!

(Continued in Poe 1974, Pt. 2)

Poe 1973, Pt. 4

(Continued from Poe 1973, Pt. 3)

SCREAM  3
"THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER"

Skywald Publications was the work of Sol Brodsky & Israel Waldman.  While they had a small run of color comics designed to imitate Marvel, their biggest output and claim to fame were their B&W "Horror-Mood" magazines, done very much in the mode of James Warren's CREEPY and EERIE.

Al Hewetson, a writer & editor, soon joined the company and eventually became full editor when Brodsky returned to Marvel.  Hewetson determined to give Skywald's horror line a more "literate" feel than Warren's had, resulting in, among other things, no less than 19 Edgar Allan Poe adaptations between 1972-75.

Here we come to the 3rd of these...

     "THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER".

     This was the 16th 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),
Warren's EERIE #20 (Mar'69),
Milano Libri's LINUS #50 (May'69),

EDAR's MINI TERROR #132 (May'69),
Gino Sansoni's I CLASSICI A FUMETTI #17 (Sep'69),
Ibero Mundial's DOSSIER NEGRO #17 (Jul'70),
Populares' EL MONJE LOCO #143 (August 23, 1970), and
Stowa Forlag's NOVA #2 (May'73)
     ...the last one 7 months earlier.

This would be the 1st of 3 consecutive Poe stories with art by Maro Nava.

As it happens, it was my friend Mike Cannon Jr. posting this story at The EERIE Fans of CREEPY - and all HORROR/MONSTER MAGS/COMICS Facebook group that inspired me to start this entire huge POE project in the first place!  I had been planning to follow up my Jules Verne postings with H.G Wells, before moving on to either Arthur Conan Doyle or Edgar Allan Poe... but I jumped on Poe instead.  While Mike posted images photographed by a cell-phone camera, I'm using instead much-higher quality SCANS made from my own collection-- incredibly, the first time in this massive project I've had to do so!!  I'm afraid these are from the 1989 Eternity reprint, so the actual reproduction quality may be lower than if I'd done scans from the original 1973 magazine... but, you do what you can.  

After the 1960 Roger Corman / Richard Matheson / Vincent Price movie, and the 1981 Richard Corben adaptation, this is probably the 3rd version of this story I ever ran across.  ENJOY!

SCREAM  3
cover by FRANCISCO JAVIER GONZALEZ VILANOVA
     (Skywald Publications  /  December 1973)

"THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER"  /  Version 16
Adaptation by Al Hewetson  /
Art by MARO NAVA  /  Page 29

Page 30

Page 31

Page 32

Page 33

Page 34

Page 35

Page 36

Page 37

Page 38

Page 39

Page 40

Eternity Comics, for a few years, was a very successful small publisher, who split their output between a number of original series, licensed series, and reprints of old comics.  This included quite of few of the Poe stories from Skywald!

EDGAR ALLAN POE:  THE BLACK CAT And Other Stories #1
cover by BROOKS HAGAN  (Eternity Comics  /  September 1988)

Copyright (C) Skywald Publishing.

Scan of SCREAM #3 cover from the GCD site.
Scans of THE BLACK CAT And Other Stories #1 interiors & cover
     from my collection.

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa

For more:
Read about Edgar Allen Poe at The Poe Museum site.

Read about Fracisco Javier Gonzalez Vilanova at Lambiek.

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 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 Klaus Nordby HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!

Read the Maro Nava 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 Editorial Maisal 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 my Edgar Allan Poe overview at this very blog!

(Continued in Poe 1973, Pt. 5)

Poe 1973, Pt. 3

(Continued from Poe 1973, Pt. 2)

SCREAM  2
"THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM"

Skywald Publications was the work of Sol Brodsky & Israel Waldman.  While they had a small run of color comics designed to imitate Marvel, their biggest output and claim to fame were their B&W "Horror-Mood" magazines, done very much in the mode of James Warren's CREEPY and EERIE.

Al Hewetson, a writer & editor, soon joined the company and eventually became full editor when Brodsky returned to Marvel.  Hewetson determined to give Skywald's horror line a more "literate" feel than Warren's had, resulting in, among other things, no less than 19 Edgar Allan Poe adaptations between 1972-75.

Here we come to the 2nd of these...

     "THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM".

     This was the 9th comics version of this story, following...
Charlton's YELLOWJACKET COMICS #3 (Nov'44),
Gilberton's CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #40 (Aug'47),
Marvel's SPELLBOUND #2 (Apr'52),   
Youthful's BEWARE #10 (Jun'52),
Ziff-Davis's NIGHTMARE #2 (Fall'52),  
Continental's CLASSICOS DE TERROR #9 (1960),
Co-Operative's SUNDAY EXTRA (Apr'66),  and
Temporae's EL MONJE LOCO #40 (Sep 4, 1968)
     ...the last one 5 years earlier!

The art this time was by Ricardo Villamonte, who apparently came from somewhere in South America.  I mostly know him from work he did as an inker for both Marvel and DC.

Meanwhile, the unrelated cover painting is by Jose Miralles, who I feel is an amazing artist.  Oddly enough, doing an online search, the project he seems to be getting the most noteriety for right now is THE GOLDEN CHILDEN'S BIBLE.

You know, one thing I can't figure is the number of Skywald covers where the logo is shrunken.  Oh well!

SCREAM  2
cover by JOSE MIRALLES   (Skywald Publications  /  October 1973)

"THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM"  /  Version 9
 Adaptation by Al Hewetson  /  Art by RICARDO VILLAMONTE  /  Page 26

Page 27

Page 28

Page 29

Page 30

Page 31

Eternity Comics, for a few years, was a very successful small publisher, who split their output between a number of original series, licensed series, and reprints of old comics.  This included quite of few of the Poe stories from Skywald!

EDGAR ALLAN POE:  THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM And Other Stories #1
cover by BROOKS HAGAN  (Eternity Comics  /  September 1988)

Copyright (C) Skywald Publications.

Scan of SCREAM #2 from the GCD site.
Scans of SCREAM #2 interiors from the Tebeos de Factura Hispana 2 blog.
     Special thanks to Jose Ruiz DelAmor.
Scan of EDGAR ALLAN POE:  THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
     AND OTHER STORIES #1 from my collection.

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa

For more:
Read about Edgar Allen Poe at The Poe Museum site.

Read about Ricardo Villamonte at Lambiek.
Read about Jose Miralles at the Lambiek site.
Read about Jose Miralles at the Comic Art Fans site.
See more of Jose Miralles art at the All Posters.com site.
See more of Jose Miralles art a The Pony Book Chronicles blog.

Read about THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM at the Spark Notes site.
Read about THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM at the Cliff Notes site.
Read about THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM at the Shmoop site.

Read the complete story at the Poe Stories site.
See the PENDULUM Gallery of Illustrations.

     Audio:
Hear the Basil Rathbone PIT AND THE PENDULUM recording!
See the Vincent Price PIT AND THE PENDULUM performance!
Hear the Henry Hull SUSPENSE episode!   (ep. 24  /  1-12-1943)
Hear the Jose Ferrer SUSPENSE episode!   (ep. 273  /  11-28-1947)
Hear the Vincent Price SUSPENSE episode!   (ep.724  /  11-10-1957)
Hear the Raymond Burr SUSPENSE episode!   (ep.805  /  6-7-1959)
Hear the Tony Roberts CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER episode!  (3-4-1975)

     Comics:
Read the Gus Schrotter PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the August M. Froehlich PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Russ Heath PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Doug Wildey PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Everett Raymond Kinstler PENDULUM adaptation!

Read the Gedeone Malagola PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Frank Bellamy PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Ruben Lara Romero PENDULUM adaptation!
     See the Pablo Marcos PENDULUM tribute!
Read the Ricardo Villamonte PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Jose Ortiz PENDULUM adaptation!

Read the De La Rosa PENDULUM adaptation!   (coming soon!)
Read the Guido Del Carpio Rivera PENDULUM illustrated story!
     (coming soon)
Read the Don McGregor / Rudy Mesina PENDULUM adaptation!
Read the Gerry Talaoc PENDULUM adaptation!

See my Edgar Allan Poe overview at this very blog!

(Continued in Poe 1973, Pt. 4)