Thursday, August 11, 2016

Poe 1968, Pt. 16

(Continued from Poe 1968, Pt. 15)

A CRIPTA  2
"O CORVO"

     (Original English Text) 

Editora Continental / Outubro / Taika were 3 names used by the same small publisher in Brazil.  The work of artists Jayme Cortez & Miguel Penteado, they produced some wonderful comics, many of them in the horror genre, each doing many gorgeous, stunning cover paintings!

I have discovered, between my own researches and the IMMENSE help of artist and fellow fan Toni Rodrigues, that Continental / Outubro / Taika during their run produced at least 25 POE adaptations-- more than Skywald or Warren !!  It's my intention to compile, clean up, TRANSLATE and COLOR every one of these for my POE blog project!!  (Well, with exceptions.)

24th in line...

     "THE RAVEN"

     This was the 11th version of this, following...
Harper's THE RAVEN (1880),
E.P. Dutton's THE RAVEN (1883),
Harper & Brothers' THE RAVEN (1884),
Harwell-Evans' THE RAVEN (1906),
Reilly & Britton's THE RAVEN (1910),

Dodd, Mead & Company
's THE RAVEN (1930),
EC's MAD #9 (Feb-Mar'54),  
EC's MAD #46 (Apr'59),  
EC's MAD #55 (Jun'60), and  
Dell's THE RAVEN Movie Classic (Sep'63),
     ...the last one some 4 years earlier.

At this point, there had been 3 comedy versions of this classic poem done in comics, and 1 movie adaptation.  Oddly enough, this time, we get a "straight" illustrated version.  Took long enough!

The art this time is by Nico Rosso, one of the most prolific comics artists in Brazil, responsible for a multitude of interior stories, but perhaps best known as "the" DRACULA artist in the 1960s. He also did an enormous number of full-color painted covers.  As with the previous adaptation, "SHADOW", his art this time is unlike anything else I've ever seen from him.

This is his 4th of 4 POE adaptations.

Writer R.F. Lucchetti adapted the poem into Portugese... however, because this is a poem, not a short story, I felt it best if I simply used Poe's original text verbatim.

A CRIPTA  2
cover by NICO ROSSO   (Editora Taika  /  Brazil  /  1968)
"O CORVO"
     ("THE RAVEN")  /  Version 11
Adaptation by R.F. Lucchetti  /  Art by NICO ROSSO  /  Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
This reprint contained the first 3 issues of A CRIPTA in their entirety...

A CRIPTA:  MAGAZINE DE TERROR
cover by NICO ROSSO   (Editora Taika  /  Brazil  /  1970)
Here's the all-reprint collection of Nico Rosso's work where I found the story...

COLECAO CONTOS DE TERROR
cover by NICO ROSSO   (Editora Taika  /  Brazil  /  1973)
As a bonus, here's the cover of Toni Rodrigues' MEMO Magazine #1 
featuring an exhaustive look back at cover artist Nico Rosso's career!

Copyright (C) Nico Rosso  &  Editora Taika.
English Translation Copyright (C) 2016 Henry R. Kujawa


Scans of COLECAO CONTOS DE TERROR

     from the Banca Dos Gibis Brazucas blog
     Special thanks to Mario Jorge Vargas at the Che Guavira blog!

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.

R
ead about Editora Continental / Outubro / Taika at Guia Dos Quadrinhos.
See more covers from Editora Outubro at the Nostalgia Do Terror site.
See more covers from Editora Taika at the Nostalgia Do Terror site.
See more covers from Editora Vecchi at the Nostalgia Do Terror site.

Visit the Nico Rosso blog!

Read about The Raven at The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore site.
Read about the inspiration for The Raven at The Vintage News site.
Read about The Raven at the Mental Floss site.

Read the complete poem at the Poetry Foundation site.
See THE RAVEN Gallery of Illustrations!

     Audio / Video:
Hear the Basil Rathbone recording!
See the Vincent Price performance!
Hear the Christopher Lee recording!
Watch The Simpsons cartoon!

      Comics:

See the James William Carling RAVEN illustrations!
See the William Ladd Taylor RAVEN illustrations!
See the Gustave Dore RAVEN illustrations!
See the Galen J. Perrett RAVEN illustrations!
See the John Rea Neill RAVEN illustrations!   (coming soon!)

See the Ferdinand H. Horvath RAVEN illustrations!
Read the Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Wally Wood RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Mort Drucker RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Frank Springer RAVEN adaptation!

Read the Nico Rosso RAVEN adaptation!
Read the 2 George Woodbridge RAVEN adaptations!
Read the Richard Corben RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Peter Cappiello RAVEN adaptation!

Read the Paul Coker, Jr. RAVEN adaptation!   (coming soon!)
Read the Steve Ditko RAVEN story!
Read the Jeff Bonivert RAVEN adaptation!
     (Coming soon:)
Read the Ricardo Leite RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Jerry Gersten RAVEN adaptation!

Read the Gahan Wilson RAVEN adaptation!
Read the 1st Luciano Irrthum RAVEN adaptation
     at the Canibuk blog!
Read the 2nd Luciano Irrthum RAVEN adaptation
     at the Canibuk blog!
Read the Thomas Eide RAVEN adaptation!
Read the 2nd Richard Corben RAVEN adaptation!

Read the Eureka Productions RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Stuart Tipples RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Mangosta RAVEN adaptation!
Read the 3rd Luciano Irrthum RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Yein Yip RAVEN adaptation!

Read the David G. Fores RAVEN adaptation!
Read the 3rd Richard Corben RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Edu Molina RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Duncan Long RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Terrier Studios RAVEN adaptation!

Read the Pete Katz RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Rebecca Tough RAVEN adaptation!
Read the Gareth Hinds RAVEN adaptation!

     Misc:
Read the Nico Rosso RED DEATH adaptation!

Read the Nico Rosso TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!
Read the Nico Rosso SHADOW adaptation!
Read the Nico Rosso RAVEN adaptation!


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


(Continued in Poe 1968, Pt. 17)

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