Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Poe 1970, Pt. 6

(Continued from Poe 1970, Pt. 5)

DOSSIER NEGRO  16
"LA CAIDA DE LA CASA USHER"
     (IN COLOR  w/ English Translation  /  Part 2)

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's LINUS #50 (May'69),

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

This version differed from most others, in that Madeline was already insane before the story began, rather than being driven so by her brother's actions.  As I tend to do translations as I go, I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out myself.

The art is by Miguel Gomez Esteban.  This was his 1st of 2 POE stories.

His art really reminds me of the look and feel of a classic Hammer Film.  Or, for that matter, an episode of Dan Curtis' DARK SHADOWS, which was still on the air when this came out.

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 17  /  "
And now... the EPIC conclusion!"


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Boy, after all that build-up, the ending seemed kind of abrupt!

Something that caught my attention, this panel on page 5 that was our first view of the house, reminded me a lot of a similar image from the 1928 film adaptation!
REPRINTS
:

GHOSTS OF TERROR  5
cover by PULOJAR   (Gredown  /  Australia  /  [1978?])
FEARFUL FREAKS

cover by ??   (Gredown  /  Australia  /  1982)
I found this image on a blog, I don't think it's an actual cover, but instead, the lead-in to an article on the artist.

Art by MIGUEL GOMEZ ESTABAN
Copyright
(C) Miguel Gomez Esteban.

Scans of DOSSIER NEGRO #16
     f
rom the Tierra La Larrabeau blog, with special thanks!
Scan of GHOSTS OF TERROR #5 (1978)
     supplied by Ernie Laczo with special thanks!
Scan of FEARFUL FREAKS (1982) from the AusReprints 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 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.

      Audio:
Hear the Basil Rathbone HOUSE OF USHER 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 Navo 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 Luis Romero B. HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Bert Dodson HOUSE OF USHER illustrated story!
Read the E.C. Nickel HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!

Read the Richard Corben HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Pedro Martinez HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the P.Craig Russell / Jay Geldof HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Giampiero Ubezio HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Jorge Hardmeier HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!

Read the Benjamin Campos Portada HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Gris Grimly HOUSE OF USHER illustrated story!
Read the Matt Howarth HOUSE OF USHER illustrated story!
Read the Shane Oakley HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Jean-Louis Thouard HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!

Read the Miguel Serratosa HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Benjamin Lacombe HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Jim Jimenz HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the 2nd Richard Corben HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Edu Molina HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!

Read the Gustavo Del Valle HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Julia Gfrorer HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Agustin Comotto HOUSE OF USHER illustrated story!
Read the Pete Katz HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Linus Liu HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!

Read the Ahoy Comics HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!

      Misc:
Read the Miguel Gomez Esteban HOUSE OF USHER adaptation!
Read the Miguel Gomez Esteban BLACK CAT adaptation!

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


(Continued in Poe 1970, Pt. 7)