Monday, October 22, 2018

Poe 1963, Pt. 7

(Continued from Poe 1963, Pt. 6)

Poe's THE RAVEN
     (A Movie Classic)    

Dell Comics were, for many years, the single BIGGEST comics publisher in the country.  Their material was so aggressively family-oriented, that they never even got involved with the Comics Code (and had no problems with distribution, apparently).  Much of their output was in "licensed" characters and series, as well as movie adaptations.  Which brings us to this one.

We come now to the 2nd of 5 Dell "Movie Classics" devoted to American International Pictures' POE series, which features an adaptation of the 5th of 8 films in that series directed by Roger Corman.  (Confused enough?)  This also happens to be the 3rd comics adaptation-- more or less-- of Poe's most famous poem...

     "THE RAVEN".

Following in the footsteps of 2 previous MAD magazine versions-- and "The Black Cat" segment of the film "TALES OF TERROR"-- this film was played very much for comedy.  How much of that made it into the comic remains to be seen.

Apart from the superb cast which includes Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court and a very young Jack Nicholson, thie film is also notable as one of the inspirations for Steve Ditko's DR. STRANGE, MASTER OF THE MYSTIC ARTS.  Not only did that comics series debut only a few short months after the film was released in theatres, in the early episodes, the hero bore a striking resemblence to Vincent Price!

(This story was originally set up here on November 18, 2014.  It has been movied to this new location to make it easier to modify in the future.)

Poe's THE RAVEN
photo cover   (Dell  /  September 1963)
Inside Front Cover
"THE RAVEN"  /  Version 10
Adaptation by Don Segall  /  Art by FRANK SPRINGER
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Don't go away!  Our story will continue...

Copyright (C) 1963 by Alta Vista Productions.

Scan of Poe's THE RAVEN from the Destination Nightmare blog.

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 Dell Comics at Don Markstein's Toonpedia.
Read about Frank Springer at Lambiek Comiclopedia.
Read an interview with Frank Springer at the Nerd Team 30 site.
See more Frank Springer art at the Romitaman site.
See more Frank Springer art at the Comic Art Fans site.

Read about The Raven at The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore site.
Read about the inspiration for The Raven at The Vintage News site.
Read about The Raven at the Mental Floss site.

Read the complete poem at the Poetry Foundation site.
See THE RAVEN Gallery of Illustrations!

     Audio / Video:
Hear the Basil Rathbone recording!
See the Vincent Price performance!
Hear the Christopher Lee recording!
Watch The Simpsons cartoon!

     Comics:
See the James William Carling RAVEN illustrations!
See the William Ladd Taylor RAVEN illustrations!
See the Gustave Dore RAVEN illustrations!
See the Galen J. Perrett RAVEN illustrations!
See the John Rea Neill RAVEN illustrations!   (coming soon!)

See the Ferdinand H. Horvath RAVEN illustrations!
Read the Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Wally Wood RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Mort Drucker RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Frank Springer RAVEN adaptation!

Read the Nico Rosso RAVEN adaptation!
Read the 2 George Woodbridge RAVEN adaptations!
Read the Richard Corben RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Peter Cappiello RAVEN adaptation!

Read the Paul Coker, Jr. RAVEN adaptation!   (coming soon!)
Read the Steve Ditko RAVEN story!
Read the Jeff Bonivert RAVEN adaptation!
     (Coming soon:)
Read the Ricardo Leite RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Jerry Gersten RAVEN adaptation!

Read the Gahan Wilson RAVEN adaptation!
Read the 1st Luciano Irrthum RAVEN adaptation
     at the Canibuk blog!
Read the 2nd Luciano Irrthum RAVEN adaptation
     at the Canibuk blog!
Read the Thomas Eide RAVEN adaptation!
Read the 2nd Richard Corben RAVEN adaptation!

Read the Eureka Productions RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Stuart Tipples RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Mangosta RAVEN adaptation!
Read the 3rd Luciano Irrthum RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Yein Yip RAVEN adaptation!

Read the David G. Fores RAVEN adaptation!
Read the 3rd Richard Corben RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Edu Molina RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Duncan Long RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Terrier Studios RAVEN adaptation!

Read the Pete Katz RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Rebecca Tough RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Gareth Hinds RAVEN adaptation!

Read the Stefano Lei RAVEN adaptation!  (at Deviant Art)

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 1963, Pt. 8)

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