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Post by MDG on Apr 22, 2019 8:27:24 GMT -5
Youthful did another Poe adaptation... CHILLING TALES 16cover by MATT FOX (Youthful / June 1953) That's a very different Matt Fox than what I've seen by him.
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 22, 2019 14:41:24 GMT -5
I ran across this next one completely by accident. It's not even claiming to be a loose Poe adaptation, but I couldn't help but notice the connection... TOMB OF TERROR 10cover by LEE ELIAS (Harvey / July 1953) "NOAH'S ARG-H!" (inspired by "HANS PFALL") / Version 2 Story & Art by HOWARD NOSTRAND A quick glance at its pages revealed to me it was an obvious take-off on one of Poe's humor tales...I rather imagine someone might argue the validity of my claim here, but when I consider just how "loose" some of the so-called "adaptations" I've seen from Marvel, EC, in one case, Gilberton, not to mention the films of Roger Corman, have been, I think I'm on solid ground here. In both cases, the stories are played for laughs. They both involve a man who goes to absurd lengths to get away from his wife, who commits murder in the process, and winds up permanently marooned as a result of his efforts. And, both stories' names are BAD PUNS. Overall, I'd say this thing has far more in common with Poe's story than it does with the story its name obviously took its inspiration from, in THE BIBLE. The artist was Howard Nostrand. He started out as an assistant for Bob Powell, and in 1959-60 did the syndicated newspaper strip BAT MASTERSON. final page REPRINTS: HARVEY HORRORS COLLECTED WORKS: TOMB OF TERROR 2cover by LEE ELIAS (PS / England / 2012) HARVEY HORRORS COLLECTED WORKS: TOMB OF TERROR SOFTEE 2cover by LEE ELIAS (PS / England / 2014) Howard Nostrand.
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 23, 2019 11:13:37 GMT -5
profh0011, you are really leaving no Poe stone unturned. Many writers have had their work give the comic books treatment, but Poe must be near or at the top of the "most-adapted authors in comics" list.
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 23, 2019 12:26:11 GMT -5
I've joked with friends of mine, that if I had ANY IDEA how many of these things there were, I might never have started on this project.
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 23, 2019 12:32:58 GMT -5
EC's 6th loose POE adaptation was even looser than usual for them... THE HAUNT OF FEAR 20cover by GRAHAM INGELS (EC / July-August 1953) For many years, I never "connected" that Al Feldstein, who wrote horror for EC and did science-fiction art, was the same guy who later became the editor of " MAD" magainze... for decades!! "THUMP FUN" (inspired by "THE TELL-TALE HEART") / Version 5 Story by Albert B. Feldstein / Art by GRAHAM INGELS "...the beating of a human heart!" (oh, NOT AGAIN!) final page REPRINTS HAUNT OF FEAR 4cover by GRAHAM INGELS (Russ Cochran / 1985) ISKALDE GROSS 6cover by GRAHAM INGELS (Semic / Norway / May-June 1988) ISKALDE GROSS POCKET 2cover by PRIETO MURIANA (Semic / Norway / [November] 1996) THE HAUNT OF FEAR 20cover by GRAHAM INGELS (Gemstone / August 1997) SUCKER BAIT AND OTHER STORIEScover by GRAHAM INGELS (Fantagraphics / February 2014) THE EC ARCHIVES: THE HAUNT OF FEAR 4cover by ?? (Dark Horse / April 2017)
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 23, 2019 13:10:18 GMT -5
These are not adaptations, but thought they might be of interest: DC stories in which Edgar Allan Poe plays a key role. The first I recall was from Atom 12, one of the Time Pool stories, "The Gold Hunters of '49" in which a surprisingly well put-together Poe, aided by the Atom, solves a gold robbery in Baltimore. In Hawkman 17, a petty crook named Eddie Powe, a trained raven, a heretofore unknown Poe novel (?), and another petty crook who runs (flies) around disguised as the Raven. And all the while paying homage to Yorick...
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 24, 2019 16:19:28 GMT -5
There seems to be a growing number of those over the years. I haven't quite decided to include those in the project, but awhile back, I did decide to include actual biography comics (of which there are more than most might imagine).
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 24, 2019 16:27:59 GMT -5
Youthful does another classic... CHILLING TALES 17cover by MATT FOX (Youthful / October 1953) "DOOMSDAY SHIP" (adapted from "MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN A BOTTLE") / Version 1 Adaptation & Art by "E. ALLGOR" page 4 final page As far as I know, this particular adaptation has NEVER been reprinted. I've found 10 different comics adaptations of this one! I've got 6 online so far.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 24, 2019 21:28:58 GMT -5
There seems to be a growing number of those over the years. I haven't quite decided to include those in the project, but awhile back, I did decide to include actual biography comics (of which there are more than most might imagine). Including this series from '03:
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Post by Farrar on Apr 25, 2019 16:00:30 GMT -5
Kudos to you profh0011, what an interesting project and such a cool thread. My own introduction to Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" came courtesy of the Batgirl-Robin story in 1970's Detective Comics #400/#401. The story's action takes place during an Edgar Allan Poe festival at Hudson University (the college Robin/Dick Grayson attends). I first read this as a kid and I remember the panels of Batgirl being walled in scared the sh$t out of me. (Robin refers to the title as " A Cask...") Poe is thanked in the credits, along with S.S. Van Dine and Rex Stout
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 26, 2019 15:30:11 GMT -5
Writer Jack Oleck managed to combine 2 Poe stories into 1
(sort of)... BLACK MAGIC #28 (v.4 #4)cover by JACK KIRBY (Prize / January-February 1954) "BURIED ALIVE!" (adapted from "THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER") / Version 4 (including elements of "THE PREMATURE BURIAL") / Version 1 Story by Jack Oleck / Art by STEVE DITKO The main character showing off a specially-designed mausoleum with several safety features came from " The Premature Burial". Despite a multitude of comics adaptations, and a LONG list of film adaptations, I'd bet that most people are familiar with " House Of Usher" via Richard Matheson's adaptation done for Roger Corman's 1960 film with Vincent Price. In the original story, the narrator was an old friend of Usher, and had never met his sister, who was deathly ill from the start. But in the 1960 film, the main character was engaged to the sister, and had never met the brother. He spent some time trying to convince her to get away from her brother and the horrible influence of the house... gee... JUST LIKE HERE! In Poe's story, the sister is accidentally buried alive. In Corman's film, her brother deliberately buries her alive. But in the Richard Matheson-Roger Corman film " PIT AND THE PENDULUM", the husband suspects he accidenbtally buried his wife alive... and when the coffin is open, he finds out he was RIGHT-- after she has actually DIED. Gee-- JUST LIKE HERE! (Is it any wonder I'm convinced Hollywood people were comics fans?) Incredibly-- this Jack Oleck story was REDONE not once but twice, with two different artists! The original with Steve Ditko art was not reprinted until 54 years later.
REPRINTS: STEVE DITKO: EDGE OF GENIUScover by STEVE DITKO (Pure Imagination / 2008) STRANGE SUSPENSE: STEVE DITKO ARCHIVES Vol.1cover by STEVE DITKO (Fantagraphics / October 2009)
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 27, 2019 16:22:33 GMT -5
NIGHTMARE 11cover by NORMAN SAUNDERS (St. John / February 1954) "HOP FROG" / Version 1 Adaptation & Art by JOHN PRENTICE Hop-Frog gets his revenge... final page REPRINTS (boy, this took awhile!!) THE COMPLETE NIGHTMAREcover by NORMAN SAUNDERS (Gwandanaland Comics / June 14, 2017) This was the first of at least 16 different comics adaptations of this story!
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 28, 2019 16:31:24 GMT -5
from my original intro: MAD 9Classical Type Comics Dept: " THE RAVEN" Oboy, here we go. You KNEW this was coming, didn't you? I'm sure you all remember EC (Entertaining Comics), right? They remain one of the most famous-- or infamous, depending on your point of view-- comics publishers of the 1950s. During a period where a virtual witch-hunt erupted over violence in "children's" literature, they were at the center of it. The Comics Code Authority-- a self-governing industry organization put together by several of the bigger publishers, while allegedly aimed at "cleaning up" the image of comics in general, in many ways was instead designed specifically to put EC-- their biggest competitor-- out of business! This kind of behavior and attitude never fails to get me incensed in the extreme. EC's 7th foray into Poe was-- to put it mildly-- quite different from the 6 earlier ones. For one thing, "The Wall", "Blood Red Wine", "The Living Death", "Seep No More", and "Thump Fun" were all what could be called "loose" adaptations, the sort of thing Hammer Films and Eon Productions often took to extremes. Not this time. Well, sort of. Let me explain that. The adaptation you are about to read contains the exact, complete, unaltered text of Poe's poem. Not one word has been changed for your (or anyone else's) convenience. On the other hand, the artwork... heh heh heh heh. In case ANYBODY out there is somehow inexplicably completely unfamiliar with it, EC's MAD was, from the first, a huge success story, and a genuine cultural phenomena. It poked fun, in the most frenetic, insane, gut-bustingly-funny and absolutely inconoclastic way possible. It was, in its original incarnation, the work of editor & writer Harvey Kurtzman, who provided full scripts and page layouts to the various illustrators who worked with him. It was SO successful, that literally DOZENS of imitators soon flooded the newsstands... some of them, even from EC Comics itself. In this case, the illustrator is Will Elder, whose sense of intense detail and comic insanity neatly matches Kurtzman himself. I would also like to point out the interesting thing that, while there have been multiple versions in various media of many of Poe's works, in the case of this particular piece, BOTH the 1954 comics version AND the 1963 feature film (by Roger Corman) were what I consider the "definitive" adaptations... and both were played for laughs. And so, with that overly-wordy intro out of the way, here we go with... "THE RAVEN"!!! MAD 9cover by HARVEY KURTZMAN (EC / February-March 1954) "THE RAVEN" / Version 7 Adaptation & Layouts by Harvey Kurtzman / Art by WILL ELDER MY favorite bit is the " Giant Size Dog Food" final page REPRINTS UTTERLY MADcover by JACK DAVIS (EC / October 1956) UTTERLY MAD #01566cover by ?? (Ballantine Books / March 1970) MAD SUPER SPECIAL 32cover by Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder & Wally Wood (EC / Fall 1980) THE COMPLETE COLOR MADcover by HARVEY KURTZMAN (Russ Cochran / 1985) MAD ABOUT THE FIFTIEScover by NORMAN MINGO (painting), JACK DAVIS (background), and Harvey Kurtzman & Will Elder (border) (Little, Brown / 1997) TALES CALCULATED TO DRIVE YOU MAD 3cover by WILL ELDER (EC / Spring 1998) THE MAD ARCHIVES Volume 2cover by HARVEY KURTZMAN (DC / 2007) MAD'S ORIGINAL IDIOTS WILL ELDERcover by WILL ELDER (DC / 2015)
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 29, 2019 16:50:36 GMT -5
NIGHTMARE 12cover by JOE KUBERT (St. John Publishing / April 1954) I'm wondering if this might be John Prentice, or not, as he did the previous St. John POE comic... (Nobody seems to know for sure.) "THE BLACK CAT" / Version 3 Adaptation & Art by ?? final page As an aside... I noticed that in the book FRANKENSTEIN, the entire story is told as a flashback by Victor when he reaches the Arctic. By comparison, the 1957 Hammer Film THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN is also told as a flashback, but by the Baron when he is in a prison cell, awaiting execution for his crimes. This may well have been borrowed from Poe's " The Black Cat", as I note BOTH comics versions so far have used this framing device! Compare this photo of Peter Cushing with the 1st panel in the above comics adaptation. REPRINTS SPELLBOUND MAGAZINEcover by ?? (Cartoon Art / UK / 1954) HISTORIAS DE TERROR 2cover by ?? (Editora La Selva / Brazil / 1960) TERROR NEGRO 1cover by THOMAS WASSMANN (Editora Cunha / Brazil / 1979?) ALMANAQUE TERROR NEGRO 1cover by MIGUEL PENTEADO (Editora Cunha / Brazil / 1980) THE COMPLETE NIGHTMAREcover by NORMAN SAUNDERS (Gwandanaland Comics / June 14, 2017)
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 30, 2019 22:03:40 GMT -5
BOYS' LIFEcover by ?? (Boy Scouts Of America / July 1954) "THE GOLD BUG" / Version 3 Adaptation & Art by HENRY SHARP Okay, here's one that cracks me up. I've seen many different visual depictions of William Legrand. But can it be just a coincidence that in the 1956 film " MANFISH" (as loose a film adaptation as one could possibly imagine) that the nearest equivalent character, "Walter Fenton", should be played by Victor Jory-- who is damn-near a dead-ringer for Henry Sharp's version from 1954? (Look at those eyes!) BOY'S LIFE mnagazine has had a TON of comics features over the decades, including a pile of "classics" adaptations. But, as far as I know, this was the ONLY Poe adaptation they did in their entire history, which goes back well over 100 years of continuous publication by now. It's also the shortest version of " The Gold Bug" I've seen, clocking in at only 2 pages!
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