Poe 1970, Pt. 5

(Continued from Poe 1970, Pt. 4)

DOSSIER NEGRO  16
"LA CAIDA DE LA CASA USHER"
     (IN COLOR  w/ English Translation)

Ibero Mundial De Ediciones was the work of publisher & editor José María Arman Corbera, located in Barcelona, Spain, from 1959 to 1978.  In their time they did romance, comedy, horror & science-fiction.

DOSSIER NEGRO was a B&W horror anthology in the style of Warren's CREEPY and others, which began in 1968.

Among its contents were at least 3 Poe adaptations.  First up:

     "THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER"

     This was the 13th 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 Edizioni's LINUS #50 (May'69),

EDAR's MINI TERROR #132 (May'69), and
Gino Sansoni's I CLASSICI A FUMETTI #17 (Sep'69),
     ...the previous one 10 months earlier!

I first ran across this at the Tierra La Larrabeau blog on December 15, 2016.  I've been looking forward to tackling it ever since, and probably would have gotten to it much earlier, except for the fact that SO MANY earlier items just kept turning up for me to add to the project.

The art is by Miguel Gomez Esteban.  The career of this Spanish artist was indeed short (he died at the age of 38), but that didn't prevent him from becoming one of the most sought after artists by both romance and terror publications.  Hence his omnipresence in the most popular romantic (such as "Claro de Luna" or "Seleccion Romantica") and terror ("Dossier Negro", "Vampus", "Rufus") novels and comics.  (Info from the Comic Art Fans site.)

This was his 1st of 2 POE stories.

It never fails to amaze me how many foreign artists have been drawn to illustrate Poe, far more than in his native United States.

This particular adaptation of "USHER" adds a back-story to the Madeleine character I haven't seen in any other version.  You'll see-- ENJOY!

DOSSIER NEGRO  16
cover by MARTI RIPOLL   (Ibero Mundial De Ediciones  /  Spain  /  July 1970)

"LA CAIDA DE LA CASA USHER"  /  Version 13
Adaptation & Art by MIGUEL GOMEZ ESTEBAN  /  Page 1

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Don't go away!  Our story will continue...

Copyright (C) Miguel Gomez Esteban.

Scans of DOSSIER NEGRO #16
     from the Tierra La Larrabeau blog, with special thanks!

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 Miguel Gomez Esteban at the Lambiek Comiclopedia site.
Read about Miguel Gomez Esteban at the Aus Reprints site.
See more Miguel Gomez Esteban art at the Comic Art Fans 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 1970, Pt. 6)

Poe 1970, Pt. 4

 (Continued from Poe 1970, Pt. 3)

PROMETHEAN ENTERPRISES  2
"THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH"

Promethean Enterprises was the work of Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., Al Devoren and Bud Plant.  One of countless amateur fanzines, it featured a wild variety of material, all outside the constrictions of established publishers, the Comics Code, or traditional distribution.

Among the contents was an illustrated story version of this Poe classic:

     "THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH"

I first ran across information about this at the ComicsJoint site.  After spending some time searching online for a copy, I found that the 2nd issue was consistently the only one that was out of my price range.

Then on 5-12-2020, Canadian comics fan Richard Gagnon came to the rescue by sending me a link to the Library Genesis site, where there are a huge number of decent-sized scans of extremely-rare fanzines posted for free in their entirety!  I immediately went thru the site, downloaded the scans I wanted, and have been waiting ever since to begn processing them and setting this blog page up.

     This was the 9th comics version of this, following...
Marvel's ADVENTURES INTO WEIRD WORLDS #4 (Spring'52),
Charlton's THE THING #2 (Apr'52),
Continental's CLASSICOS DE TERROR #9 (1960),
Marvel's STRANGE TALES #83 (Apr'61),
Dell's THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Movie Classic (Aug-Oct'64),
Warren's EERIE #12 (Nov'67),
Taika's ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #3 (1967),
Marvel's CHAMBER OF DARKNESS #2 (Dec'69),  and
     ...the last one 5 months earlier.

I felt both the highly-detailed line art and the authentic Poe text were not well-suited on the actual fanzine pages.  So, As I'd done with the Jesse Marsh "20,000 LEAGUES", I decided to RE-FORMAT the pages for the blog!  This is actually very much in the tradition of various newspaper comic-strips over the decades.

ENJOY!

PROMETHEAN ENTERPRISES  2
cover by RICK GRIFFIN   (Promethean Enterprises  /  May 1970)

"THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH"  /  Version 9
Art by ROBERT INWOOD  /  Page 5

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Back Cover by GEORGE BARR.

Copyright (C) Promethean Enterprises,  Rick Griffin  &  Robert Inwood.

Scans of PROMETHEAN ENTERPRISES #2 from the Library Genesis site,
     with special thanks to Richard Gagnon.

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa.

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

See more Rick Griffin art at Rick Griffin Designs.
See & buy Rick Griffin art at the Classic Posters site.
See more Robert Inwood art at the Google Images.
See more George Barr art at Google Images.

Read about THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH at the Spark Notes site.
Read about THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH at the Crime Reads site.
Read about THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH at the Slate site.

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

     Audio:
Hear the Basil Rathbone recording!
Hear the CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER episode!

      Comics:
Read the Bill Everett RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Bob Forgione RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Manoel Ferreira RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Steve Ditko RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Frank Springer RED DEATH adaptation!
 
Read the Tom Sutton RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Nico Rosso RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Don Heck RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Robert Inwood RED DEATH illustrated story!
Read the Dino Battaglia RED DEATH adaptation!   (coming soon!)

Read the Miguel Calatayud RED DEATH adaptation!   (coming soon!)
Read the Ricardo Villamonte RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Richard Corben RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Wayne Howard RED DEATH adaptation!   (coming soon!)
Read the Esteban Maroto RED DEATH adaptation!   (coming soon!)

Read the Francisco Agras RED DEATH adaptation!   (coming soon!)
Read the Flavio Colin RED DEATH adaptation!
      (Coming soon:)
Read the John Lawn RED DEATH illustrated story!
Read the Auraleon RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Enrique Alcatena RED DEATH illustrated story!

Read the Phillipe Cazaumayou RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Alfonso Martinez RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the A.L. Pareja RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Alberto Breccia RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Daryl Hutchinson RED DEATH adaptation!

Read the Steve Leialoha RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Eric Stanway RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Ted Naifeh RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Horacio Lalia RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Gris Grimly RED DEATH illustrated story!

Read the Stanley Shaw RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Erik Rangel RED DEATH adaption!
Read the Wendy Pini RED DEATH adaptation at the Masque Musical site!
Read the Julio Azamor RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Jean-Louis Thouard RED DEATH adaptation!

Read the Alineromero9 RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Sabaku-No-Sarri RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Eric Stanway RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the David G.Flores RED DEATH illustrated story!
Read the Richard Corben's 2nd RED DEATH adaptation!

Read the Turner Mark-Jacobs RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Edu Molina RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Terrance Lindall RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Pete Katz RED DEATH adaptation!
Read the Gareth Hinds RED DEATH adaptation!

Read the Uka Nagao RED DEATH adaptation!

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

(Continued in Poe 1970, Pt. 5)

Poe 1970, Pt. 3

 (Continued from Poe 1970, Pt. 2)

"THE LIGHTHOUSE"   (Gallery of Illustrations)

I'm including a bonus gallery of illustrations by various artists over the decades.

"THE LIGHTHOUSE" by Virgil Finlay   (1953)

"TWILIGHT ZONE" magazine Vol. 2 No. 5 by Ralph Mercer  (August 1982)

"THE LIGHTHOUSE" by Jose Reyes   (August 1982)

"THE LIGHTHOUSE" by Junji Ito   (2020)

"THE LIGHTHOUSE" by Pietro Doss   (2022)

Copyright (C) the various artists.

     Scans of "The Lighthouse" by
Virgil Finlay (1953) from the Yellowed & Creased site,
Ralph Mercer (1982) from the Twilight Zone Vortex site,
Jose Reyes (1982) from the Twilight Zone Vortex site,
Junji Ito (2020) from the Newsarama site,  and
Pietro Dossena (2022) from the Reframe Sussex Ac UK 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 THE LIGHTHOUSE at the Criminal Element site.
Read the complete short story at the EAPoe.org site.
See the THE LIGHTHOUSE Gallery of Illustrations.

Read about the 2016 film LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER at the Moria site.
Read about the 2019 film THE LIGHTHOUSE at Rae's Media Notebook.

     Audio:
Hear & buy "The Horror In The Lighthouse"
     by Ian Gordon & Horror Babble (2021) at the Bandcamp site.

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

(Continued in Poe 1970, Pt. 4)

Poe 1970, Pt. 2

 (Continued from Poe 1970, Pt. 1)

HORROR  5
"IL FARO"

I've been looking forward to getting back to the 1970s for some time now.  So many items have turned up over the last several years, I decided the only sane way to keep things organized on this blog, was to start the 1970s over from scratch, in order to post or re-post items in any semblance of chronological order. As it happens, this early in, I now focus on a real oddball item, even for this project.

Apparently, the very last story that Edgar Allan Poe began writing before he died was called...

     "THE LIGHTHOUSE"

Begun in 1849, the title “The Lighthouse” was assigned by George E. Woodberry, who first published the text of pages 2-4 in THE LIFE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE (1909).

Author Robert Bloch finished Poe's story, which was then published in the January-February 1953 issue of FANTASTIC, from Ziff-Davis.

It was then reprinted in FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #53 (February 1969 / Warren Publications), "illustrated" by photos from various horror movies via editor Forrest J. Ackerman!

And then it turned up as an "illustrated story" in Italy, courtesy of Gino Sansoni Editore's HORROR #5 (April 1970).  The art was by Dino Battaglia, who for many years held the record for the most number of Poe comics adaptations
(10 in all from 1968 to 1981).  If this had been an actual comics adaptation, it would have been his 4th.  But, you do what you can.

Copies of HORROR #5 are currently available from the Fumetto Online online store, as well as on Ebay Italy, but at the moment, I'm not prepared to pay the outragiously-inflated SHIPPING costs associated with buying from Italy, which in my previous experience has consistently been the most obscenely-overpriced of all the various countries I've dealt with.  So, I hereby put out an appeal to any Poe fans, horror fans or comics fans reading this.  If you have a copy of HORROR #5 and could send me HIGH-RES scans of the related pages, PLEASE do so!  I'd very much appreciate the help.

Information taken from the EAPOE.org and Wikipedia sites.

HORROR  5
cover by MARCO ROSTAGNO   (Gino Sansoni Editore  /  Italy  /  April 1970)

"IL FARO"
Story by Edgar Allan Poe & Robert Bloch  /  Art by DINO BATTAGLIA
Page 35

Page ??

FANTASTIC  ??
cover by ??   (Ziff-Davis  /  January-February 1953)

FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND  53
cover by BASIL GOGOS   (Warren Publishing  /  January 1969)

"THE HORROR IN THE LIGHTHOUSE"
Story by Edgar Allan Poe & Robert Bloch
Illustrations courtesy of Forrest J. Ackermen
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Copyright (C) Robert Bloch,  Gino Sansoni Editore,  Marco Rostagono,
     Ziff-Davis, Warren Publishing, Basil Gogos, Forrest J. Ackerman
          and various movie studios.

Scan of HORROR #5 (1970) cover from the Fumetto Online site.
Scans of HORROR #5 (1970) interiors from the Matattatoio5
     and Dark Italia sites.
Scan of FANTASTIC cover (1953) from the Wikipedia site.
Scans of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #53
     from MY collection.

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa.

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

Read about THE LIGHTHOUSE at the Criminal Element site.
Read the complete short story at the EAPoe.org site.
See the THE LIGHTHOUSE Gallery of Illustrations.

Read about the 2016 film LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER at the Moria site.
Read about the 2019 film THE LIGHTHOUSE at Rae's Media Notebook.

     Audio:
Hear & buy "The Horror In The Lighthouse"
     by Ian Gordon & Horror Babble (2021) at the Bandcamp site.

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

(Continued in Poe 1970, Pt. 3)