(Continued from Poe 1966, Pt. 2)
PAGINAS SINISTRAS 3
"O GATO PRETO"
(IN COLOR w/ English Translation)
Editora Continental / Outubro / Taika were 3 names used by the same small publisher in Brazil. The work of artists Jayme Cortez & Miguel Penteado, they produced some wonderful comics, many
of them in the horror genre, each doing many gorgeous, stunning cover
paintings!
I have discovered, between my own researches and the IMMENSE help of artist and fellow fan Toni Rodrigues, that Continental / Outubro / Taika during their run produced at least 25 POE adaptations-- MORE than Skywald or Warren !! It's my intention to compile, clean up, TRANSLATE and COLOR every one of these for my POE blog project!!
7th in line, another version of that popular favorite...
"THE BLACK CAT".
This was the 6th comics version of this story, following...
Charlton's YELLOWJACKET COMICS #1 (Sep'44),
EC's THE HAUNT OF FEAR #15 [1] (May-Jun'50),
St. John's NIGHTMARE #12 (Apr'54),
Continental's CLASSICOS DE TERROR #14 (1961), and
Dell's TALES OF TERROR (Feb'63)
...the last one some 3 years earlier.
The artist here is Juarez Odilon. He did a lot of work, both stories and cover paintings, for Continental / Outubro in the early 60s.
According to the Guia Dos Quadrinhos database site, PAGINAS SINISTRAS was the last new series to come from Outubro, in 1960. As of this writing, I've only seen covers for 2 issues. I was surprised that Jayme Cortez' cover from CLASSICOS DE TERROR #14
was reused here, but seeing a really bad, tiny image of that is what
suggested to me that this particular story appeared here, as Continental / Outubro did not seem to be doing many reprints, the way Taika did later on.
The scans I found were from ALMANAQUE CLASSICOS DE TERROR #2 in 1974, which also reused the same Cortez
cover. I'm afraid they were bad scans of a bad reprint, and I wasn't
too thrilled with the art to begin with. But I think I've made it
acceptable here.
Oddly enough, the splash page had "Album Classicos De Terror" (no number) written on it, which indicated to me a strong likelihood that this was one of the many POE stories that appeared in that late-60s series. Further, because some of the panels appear to have had the artwork re-worked, I have a strong suspicion that PAGINAS SINISTRAS may have been a digest. I've seen at least 2
other instances where a story was created for a digest, and then
reprinted in a regular-sized comic not long after, with all the panels
cut up, re-arranged and the art altered to fit the different format.
Once again, I feel like Hercule Poirot, trying to piece together things from bits of information that slowly keep surfacing.
When I began doing the translation for this, I noticed that much of the narration and dialogue was IDENTICAL to the 1961 version by Luiz Saidenberg, which suggest that writer R.F. Lucchetti either did both, or was referencing the earlier comic when he did this one.
This page was originally set up on Tuesday, March 1, 2016. It has been moved to this new location to make it more organized for editng.
PAGINAS SINISTRAS 3
cover by JAYME CORTEZ MARTINS (Editora Outubro / Brazil / 1966)
("THE BLACK CAT") / Version 6
Adaptation by R.F. Lucchetti / Art by JUAREZ ODILON / Page 1
ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR 8
cover by PRIMAGGIO MANTOVI (Editora Taika / Brazil / 1968)
ALMANAQUE CLASSICOS DE TERROR 2
cover by JAYME CORTEZ MARTINS (Editora Taika / Brazil / April 1974)
cover by JOSE EVOLDO (Editora Taika / Brazil / 1977)
English Translation & new color Copyright (C) 2016 Henry R. Kujawa.
Scan of PAGINAS SINISTRAS #3 cover (1966) from the Mercado Livre site.
Scan of ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #8 cover (1968)
from the Guia Dos Quadrinhos site.
Scans of ALMANAQUE CLASSICOS DE TERROR #17 (1974)
from the Quadri Brazil site.
Scan of CLASSICOS DE TERROR #20 (1977) from the Mercado Livre site.
Juarez Odilon photo from the Guia Dos Quadrinhos 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 Editora Continental / Outubro / Taika at Guia Dos Quadrinhos.
Visit the Jayme Cortez blog!
Read about Juarez Odilon at the Guia Dos Quadrinhos site!
See more covers from Editora Outubro at the Nostalgia Do Terror site.
See more covers from Editora Taika at the Nostalgia Do Terror site.
Read about THE BLACK CAT at the Cliff Notes site.
Read about THE BLACK CAT at the Andrew George site.
Read about THE BLACK CAT at the Interesting Literature site.
Read the complete story at the Poe Stories site.
See THE BLACK CAT Gallery Of Illustrations.
Audio:
Hear the Peter Lorre MYSTERY IN THE AIR episode!
Hear the Basil Rathbone recording!
Hear the Norman Rose CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER episode!
Comics:
Read the Bill Allison BLACK CAT adaptation!
Read the Johnny Craig BLACK CAT adaptation!
Read the St. John Publishing BLACK CAT adaptation!
Read the Luiz Saidenberg BLACK CAT adaptation!
Read the Fran Matera BLACK CAT adaptation!
Read the Juarez Odilon BLACK CAT adaptation!
Read the Gino Dauro BLACK CAT adaptation!
Read the Berni Wrightson BLACK CAT adaptation!
Read the Ricardo Villamonte BLACK CAT adaptation!
See the CHRONOLOGICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
See the ALPHABETICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
(Continued in Poe 1967, Pt. 1)
