CAVALEIRO ANDANTE 453
"O ESCARAVELHO de OURO"
(IN FULL COLOR w/ English Translation)
(REMASTERED)
You never know what you're gonna find in a online search! I went looking for a comic from Portugal in the early 80s, and ran across this instead.
CAVALEIRO ANDANTE ("Knight Errant"), the work of Adolfo Simões Muller, was a weekly comics magazine from Portugal. It ran 556 issues from January 5, 1952 to August 25, 1962. While the concurrent ADVENTURE WORLD focused mostly on American reprints, CA was mostly of European origin.
There were several Portuguese authors who have published their work in this magazine, especially Fernando Bento, Ruy Jose, Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, José Garcês and José Manuel Soares. Among its contents were many adaptations of "classic" stories, in the tradition of Gilberton's CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED.
Which brings us to...
"THE GOLD BUG".
While most POE stories tend to fit into the "horror" genre, this was one that fit far more easily into "children's" adventure stories.
This was the 5th comics adaptation of this story (that I know of), 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), and
Boy Scouts Of America's BOYS' LIFE (Jul'54).
As far as I know, this has never been translated into English. UNTIL NOW!
Oh yeah, and while I was at it, I also COLORED the B&W pages.
Wouldn't you know it, most of the CA covers I've seen have featured beautiful comics art, but this one has a sports photo cover. Oh well!
(I originally had both the Portugeuse and English versions posted, but decided on 6-14-2018 to remove the original as I'm only posting English versions on this blog now. The narrative text and a small amount of the art has also been modified to improve the overall look of the story.)
(This story was originally posted here on April 3, 2015. I'm moving it to a new page so it will be easier to make changes in the future.)
CAVALEIRO ANDANTE 453
photo cover
(Empresa Nacional de Publicidade (ENP) / Portugal / September 3, 1960)
("THE GOLD BUG") / Version 5
Adaptation & Art by FERNANDO BENTO / Page 6
& Empresa Nacional de Publicidade (ENP)
Scan of Cavaleiro Andante #453 cover from the GCD site.
Scans of Cavaleiro Andante #453 interiors
from the O Gato Alfarrabista 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 Empresa Nacional de Publicidade (ENP) at the GCD site.
See Cavaleio Andante covers at the GCD site.
Read about Fernando Bento 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.
Hear the FAMILY THEATER episode!
Hear the Vincent Price recording!
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!
(Continued in Poe 1960, Pt. 5)
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