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Post by MDG on Mar 20, 2019 14:22:24 GMT -5
Not a comic, but my favorite adaptation:
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 20, 2019 18:40:21 GMT -5
Here's the 1st "big" one... CLASSIC COMICS #21 "MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE"cover by Louis Zansky, Allen Simon & Arnold L. Hicks
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 20, 2019 18:49:45 GMT -5
Oddly enough, for a Gilberton " CLASSICS" adaptation, this one is MUCH farther afield than most. There is nearly-no detective work involved, Dupin promises the police inspector he will KILL the murderer, and, the climax involves tracking down the killer in a large park... a scene that, incredibly, turned up in the 1986 CBS TV-movie adaptation with George C. Scott. That itself may be the first-- of MANY-- instances where things that were NOT in Poe's original stories, added for a comics version, later turned up in a MOVIE version. Which only tells me, there's a lot of people in Hollywood who read comics, but who would never want to admit to it. Some time after I posted this initially, I decided the lettering & word balloons looked "DEAD", and decided to REPLACE them from scratch, to breath new "life" into the comic. " CLASSIC ILLUSTRATED" have been accused over the decades of being on the "dull", "stiff" side... and I have to think part of that is not just the art, but the lettering! Splash page: page 2 I have so far found 20 completely different comics adaptations of " RUE MORGUE"-- and this is far from my favorite! In the early 70s, a European version was published in multiple countries under the " CLASSIC ILLUSTRATED" banner, which was never published in the U.S., partly due to Gilberton having gone out of business by that time. I currently have 7 versions online! I'm slowly adding more as I go.
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 20, 2019 19:12:57 GMT -5
Not a comic, but my favorite adaptation: Fun stuff! I have a small collection of "big band" artists, but if my index is accurate, I don't actually have anything by Buddy Morrow, although the name is familiar somehow.
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 20, 2019 22:13:41 GMT -5
Hey, AdamWarlock2099, thanks for your reccomendation! I just ordered a copy of Dawn Brown's " RAVENOUS". You know what's funny, if you go to Amazon, there are 2 completely different books by that name. The other is a children's book about a young girl on an epic quest. Of course, I knew which one I wanted.
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 21, 2019 19:45:58 GMT -5
Boy, you'd never guess there was a POE story in this anthology, would you? YELLOWJACKET COMICS #1(Charlton Comics / September 1944) cover by Harold DeLay "THE BLACK CAT" / Version 1 Adaptation by (unknown) / Art by Bill Allison final page: This was reprinted in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF HORROR COMICS(Running Press Book Publishers / 2008) cover by A.C. Hollingsworth
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Post by Duragizer on Mar 21, 2019 23:56:43 GMT -5
I wonder if "The Angel of the Odd" ever received a comic adaptation. I'm guessing it hasn't. Shame, 'cause it's one of Poe's weirdest, most entertaining non-horror yarns.
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 22, 2019 16:28:20 GMT -5
Hmm. I suppose at this point, I'm probably the guy to answer that question. Over the course of the last 4-1/2 years, as an extension of doing this thing, I've found myself reading more and more of Poe's original stories, sometimes in order to help with doing English translations. This includes reading his only full-length novel. Some of these stories, I've wound up reading for the first time, some, several times.
This one, I never even heard of until your post!
Geez. I'm gonna have to look this up....
See, you guys are making this thread worth while. This is at least the 3rd item I've run across I was completely unaware of.
A couple of YEARS back... I can't believe I've been doing this for this long already... I began to say, " If I had any hint that there was SO MUCH of this stuff out there, I might never have gotten started on this in the first place!"
Oh, by the way... this reminds me of my various searches on Ebay for Mexican digests. One day, I ran across one that featured "THOU ART THE MAN". It was an early detective story of his that he actually wrote before any of his 3 with "Auguste Dupin". I bought it immediately! I have NOT seen another copy of that book SINCE!! How's that for a "rare" comic? And I can't even read it... Until I'm ready to tackle it full-on, with a translator, because it's in Spanish.
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 22, 2019 16:33:57 GMT -5
Charlton's 2nd POE adaptation is in another issue of this long-forgotten anthology... YELLOWJACKET COMICS #3(Charlton Comics / November 1944) cover by Ken Battefield "THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM" / Version 1 Adaptation by (unknown) / Art by Gustav Schrotter final page Gustav Schrotter is a guy who became a children's book illustrator in the 1950s. Here's one I found from 1960!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2019 17:18:26 GMT -5
My grandmother had that book and I read it every chance I can when I visit her when I was a kid in the 60's. Gustav Schrotter, if I recall correctly did a great job drawing dinosaurs. I loved that avatar of yours ... profh0011
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 22, 2019 18:29:23 GMT -5
My grandmother had that book and I read it every chance I can when I visit her when I was a kid in the 60's. Gustav Schrotter, if I recall correctly did a great job drawing dinosaurs. I loved that avatar of yours ... profh0011
That's so cool!
My avatar is a 3D model I built some years ago for a comic-book project. It's based on a 1950s tin toy robot. It struck me it might be the kind of thing a 6-year-old might design if he were building a "giant robot".
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 22, 2019 18:33:51 GMT -5
Okay, I looked around. I have found some stand-alone ilustrations online by various artists. There was also a Goth-Punk band in 1985 that used that name! (I've been running across a lot of rock bands using Poe-related names.)
There's also THIS, at the "Storyboard That" site...
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 22, 2019 18:46:08 GMT -5
Found another one!
Artist Natalie Pasnin in Victoria, Australia, did a cute, cartoony 5-page adaptation of it in August 2015...
Thanks to your question, I have just added another country of origin (Australia) to the project!
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 23, 2019 15:30:24 GMT -5
Charlton's 3rd POE adaptation. Would you believe, I have so far found 36 different comics adaptations of " HOUSE OF USHER" ?? (It's been adapted to film quite a few times, as well.) Gus Schrotter returns for his 2nd of 2 Poe stories. This is one I would really love to get ahold of the actual comic, as the scans I found online were very low-quality. YELLOWJACKET COMICS #4(Charlton Comics / December 1944) cover by Ken Battefield "THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER" / Version 1 Adaptation by (unknown) / Art by Gus Schrotter Final page I thought it was interesting how part of the 1960 movie poster used the SAME camera angle as this panel from the 1944 comic-book adaptation.
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 24, 2019 12:34:09 GMT -5
McCombs was a short-lived publisher which seems to have only put out 2 titles in its history-- LOVER PROBLEMS AND ADVICE, ILLUSTRATED (which lasted 2 issues)-- and CROWN COMICS (which lasted 19). Their anthology featured such characters as Voodah (a jungle hero illustrated by Matt Baker), Mickey Magic, Buck Farrel, and Clue Kelley. Mixed in there was Graves Ghost Hunter (who seems to have only appeared in one story). One might have gotten the impression the series would have a supernatural slant, but all that strangely vanished after the 1st issue. They did ONE Poe adaptation... CROWN COMICS #1(McCombs / Spring 1945) cover by Matt Baker "THE OBLONG BOX" / Version 1 Adaptation by (unknown) / Art by Alex Blum Final page This was reprinted in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST HORROR COMICS (2008).
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