Just read a Croatian comics adaptation of the novel Atlantida by French writer Pierre Benoit...


It was first published in 1943 in a Croatian entertainment newspaper (Zabavnik). The artist and, in fact, plotter/writer, was Ferdo Bis, who apparently drew the complete story after reading the novel and then had a journalist (Marcel Čukli) write out the dialogue.
The story, by the way, is just all right, at least as rendered by Bis and Čukli (I've never read the novel it's based on). Basically, it involves two French Foreign Legion officers getting lost in a sandstorm in the Sahara and captured by Taureg who takes them to a mysterious stronghold in a mountain that ends up being the last outpost of Atlantis (rumors of it all sinking into the ocean were exaggerated in this telling). There, the lovely Queen Antinea has some apparently monstrous plans for the two. It's a pretty simple story, and actually kind of gloomy and depressing. But the art in this version was pretty nice.
Otherwise, I read this in a Croatian reprint magazine that was published in 2009, called Strip revija:


This was a really lovely magazine, by the way: each issue had over hundred pages, they were printed on high quality paper and square bound (so they were more like magazine-sized books), and they reprinted wonderfully restored older comics and even included, in later issues, some original material. Later issues also had color sections. And the price was only the equivalent of $5 each. A total of 13 issues were published in this format between 2009 and the end of 2013. After that, though, the series was relaunched as a monthly, in a slightly smaller size, saddle-stitched (albeit still bigger than the standard American comic books) with a far lower page count (about 60 per issue) on slightly lower quality paper.
I pick up issues of it occasionally now, but I snapped up all of those original big books as soon as they came out. However, I mainly only flipped through them, usually reading the text pieces (which covered various aspects of comics history and culture in Croatia and the former Yugoslavia) and the shorter features, esp. stuff like this funny animal comic ('The Roguish Little Rooster') by Norbert (script) and Walter (art) Neugebauer (both of whom I've mentioned upthread). Walter's art very much shows how much he was influenced by the Disney cartoons:


Recently I decided to pull some of these off the shelf, dust them off and read some of the longer features as well.

I had no idea that such an adaptation existed! It's pretty cool!

The novel was pretty much in the vein of H. Rider Haggard's She, and did have a depressing ending. One aspect I found pretty neat is that the "lost" kingdom of Atlantis, for all its antique feel, is well aware of the modern world's existence and even manages to get foreign newspapers. It remains aloof and isolated, but is in no way stuck in its own make-believe world ready to collapse the second a dashing young European hero shows up!