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Post by profh0011 on Apr 8, 2019 21:19:55 GMT -5
Jim Lavery does a rather visually spectacular yet "stiff" version of " The Tell-Tale Heart". It's okay, but FAR from my favorite. "THE TELL-TALE HEART" / Version 3 Adaptation by ?? / Art by JIM LAVERY Some versions avoid mentioning the diememberment part... Final page The reprints were in mostly the same books as "The Gold Bug", except for ths one... CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED STUDY GUIDES 17cover by JEN MARRUS (Acclaim / August 1997)
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 9, 2019 17:12:22 GMT -5
For the last several years, I've been working on a massive EDGAR ALLAN POE comics blog project, attempting to assemble in one place every Poe comics adaptation I can find in one place. More and more have been foreign stories that have nevever been published in English or color... until I've gotten done with them. Currently there's items from 1880-1979 posted, with more being added all the time.
Great subject for a thread. For work from an author who is one of the most anti "funny book" talents in history, his stories were covered by just about every major publisher. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if one of Poe's works were adapted or modified as an Archie comic. I take it you are covering all adaptations in chronological order? I ask because I recently came across one of his adaptations from Creepy (1965) and wondered if you were going to cover that?
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 9, 2019 22:29:58 GMT -5
Great subject for a thread. For work from an author who is one of the most anti "funny book" talents in history, his stories were covered by just about every major publisher. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if one of Poe's works were adapted or modified as an Archie comic. I take it you are covering all adaptations in chronological order? I ask because I recently came across one of his adaptations from Creepy (1965) and wondered if you were going to cover that? Hmm. I haven't seen an ARCHIE... yet. But there are some SIMPSONS. And all kinds of strange stuff.
Oh yeah-- just remembered-- some DISNEYs. With MICKEY MOUSE. I'm not making this up!!!!!
The Warrens were among the early ones I set up. Unless I'm mistaken, there are 24 Warren Poe adaptations-- and I have them all (though the last few are not up yet). There are also 19 Skywalds. (There would have been 20, but they shut down just before publishing their last one.) And, there are 25 Taikas (from Brazil !). I have nearly all of them up, but there's at least one I only got my hands on late last year. Dark Horse has done 15, all of them by Richard Corben-- who, between Warren, Pacific, Marvel Max & DH currently holds the record for 29 Poe adaptations by a single artist!
The longer this project goes on, the more work is required to keep updating my info!
As for "anti funny book"-- I've been joking for a couple years now that doing this is "helping me keep my sanity". Considering the author and the content... HOW IRONIC can you get?
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 9, 2019 22:38:18 GMT -5
The final Gilberton is Rudy Palais' 2nd of 2 Poes, and gets my vote as the most visually spectacular version of " Amontillado" EVER!!! Palais' panel layouts in this actually remind me of Tony Harris' work on " STARMAN" in the 90s. No kidding. "THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO" / Version 2 Adaptation by ?? / Art by RUDY PALAIS deep in the catacombs... the last brick... final page It turns out that this story was inspired by a real-life rivalry between Poe and another writer, Thomas Dunn English. As it happens, artist Rudy Palais based his rendition of Fortunato on English! See the 2 previous stories in the same book for where this has been reprinted (multiple times).
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 10, 2019 17:54:47 GMT -5
EC's 4th loose Poe adaptation was the first to tackle " Valdemar"... TALES FROM THE CRYPT 24cover by AL FELDSTEIN (EC / June-July 1951) "THE LIVING DEATH"(adapted from "THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR") / Version 1 Adaptation by Albert B. Feldstein / Art by GRAHAM INGELS final page REPRINTS: TALES FROM THE CRYPT 2cover by AL FELDSTEIN (Russ Cochran / 1979) PHANTASTICHE GESCHICHTEN 3cover by AL FELDSTEIN (Norbert Hethke Verlag / Germany / 1986) EC CLASSICS 11: TALES FROM THE CRYPTcover by AL FELDSTEIN (Russ Cochran / 1988) ISKALDE GROSS 8cover by JACK DAVIS (Semic / Norway / December 1989) TALES FROM THE CRYPT 3cover by AL FELDSTEIN (Russ Cochran / December 1991) TALES FROM THE CRYPT 8cover by AL FELDSTEIN (Russ Cochran / June 1994) ISKALDE GROSS POCKET 5cover by BOADA (Hjemmet / Egmont / Norway / March 1998) TALES FROM THE CRYPT 2cover by ?? (Akileos / France / October 2013) EC ARCHIVES: TALES FROM THE CRYPT 2cover by AL FELDSTEIN (Dark Horse / 2013)
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 13, 2019 20:57:40 GMT -5
One of Poe's most famous & popular stories made its comics debut in the most unlikely form... a very loose, "modernized" version, in a Marvel comic. ADVENTURES INTO WEIRD WORLDS 4cover by CARL BURGOS (??) (Marvel / Spring [March] 1952) "THE FACE OF DEATH" (adapted from "THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH") / Version 1 Adaptation & Art by BILL EVERETT A measely 4 pages... but then, Poe's story was only 3 pages! The phrase " the face of death" does not appear anywhere in Poe's original " Red Death" story. However, it DOES turn up in the 1964 Roger Corman movie. The more I see, the more I'm convinced that many people in Hollywood were avid comic-book readers... but NONE of them ever want to admit it! REPRINTS: SPELLBOUND 11cover by WERNER ROTH (L. Miller & Sons / England / 1961) SPELLBOUND 26cover by Jack Kirby & George Klein (L Miller & Sons / England / 1962) THE BILL EVERETT ARCHIVES 2cover by BILL EVERETT (Fantagraphics / September 2013) Bill Everett-- from the 1940s to the early 1970s, one of Marvel's very best WRITERS and ARTISTS! It was criminal how under-utilized he was in the late 60s up until one year before he passed away... when he was FINALLY "allowed" to take over complete control of his character SUB-MARINER... after others had effectively murdered the series.
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 14, 2019 13:19:32 GMT -5
SPELLBOUND 2cover by BILL EVERETT (Marvel / April 1952) Incredbly, there were 3 different versions of " The Pit And The Pendulum" done in a single year! The 1st of these was a VERY loose adaptation. I'm still waiting to get my hands on decent scans, as this is one of those things that has NEVER been reprinted... or even posted in its entirety online! "THE END!" (based on "THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM") / Version 3 Adaptation by ?? / Art by RUSS HEATH
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 16, 2019 11:50:23 GMT -5
Charlton does another Poe adaptation! Although the 2nd comics version of " Red Death", it's actually the 1st "authentic" one... THE THING 2cover by BOB FORGIONE (Charlton / April 1952) The scans I found of this were pretty bad, and required a lot of clean-up. Which turned out to be well worth the effort. "THE RED DEATH" (adapted from " The Masque Of The Red Death") / Version 2 Adaptation & Art by BOB FORGIONE This version, unlike most, actually includes an explanation for how the "Red Death" figure found its way into the castle. Final page REPRINTS NOITES DE TERROR 9cover by JOSE RIVELLI NETO ("ZEZO") (Editora Trieste / Brazil / May 1973) This may be the only version of this story I've come across (apart from " The Masque Of Mandragora" on DOCTOR WHO) where someone explained how " The Red Death" managed to get inside the castle. I note a few details in this version that turned up in the 1964 Roger Corman film-- the design of the main hall and stairway (production designer Daniel Heller could well have seen this comic!), the villagers begging for help at the castle walls and being driven off by violence, and the Court Jester making a suggestion that leads to the death of his employer! Makes me wonder how many people in Hollywood read comics but never wanted to admit to it. The main hall in the 1964 film (a set reused from the film " BECKET"). Note the similarity to the one seen on page 1 of this comic story-- right down to the color scheme! The Court Jester causes the death of his master. Albeit, in the film, the Jester was " Hop Toad", from another Poe story, though he did somewhat resemble the king in this comic version. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 17, 2019 12:37:57 GMT -5
The 4th comics version of " The Pit And The Pendulum" came from a publisher named Youthful... BEWARE 10cover by Ed Goldfarb & Bob Baer (Youthful / June 1952) You'd NEVER guess that the art on this was by
the creator of JONNY QUEST !!! "THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM" / Version 4 Adaptation & Art by DOUG WILDEY Page 2 Final page The NEXT cover featured "Pit", which I take to have been a scheduling mix-up. REPRINTS: TERROR NEGRO 5cover by DOUG WILDEY (Editora Trieste / Portugal / November 1968) O TERROR NEGRO 1cover by ?? (Editora Trieste / Brazil / January 1973)
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 17, 2019 13:05:28 GMT -5
I'm not surprised that some of these adaptations don't mention that they are adaptations and leave out Poe's name entirely; comics publishers are notorious for not giving credit where it's due. But I'm a little surprised that several of them that do mention his name end up spelling it wrong. This one by Doug Wildey has "Edgar Allen Poe", and it's not the first time that particular misspelling has been seen in this thread.
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 18, 2019 15:19:26 GMT -5
I'm a little surprised that several of them that do mention his name end up spelling it wrong. This one by Doug Wildey has "Edgar All en Poe", and it's not the first time that particular misspelling has been seen in this thread. Good call! (Gee, I wonder how you noticed that one... heh.)
EC tended to do very loose adaptations of Poe, as did Marvel in the early days. It was when EC began doing Ray Bradbury adaptations they bothered to list the writer... I'm trying to remember what the circumstances there were. (The guys at the "EC Fan-Addict" FB group would be able to answer that question better than me.)
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 18, 2019 15:26:35 GMT -5
The next version of " Pendulum" came only a few months later... NIGHTMARE 2cover by WALTER POPP (Ziff-Davis / Fall 1952) This particular adaptation was illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler, who went on to great fame as a portait artist. "THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM" / Version 5 Adaptation & Art by EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER This page was the FIRST time I've seen an artist draw the pit as I envisioned it in my head when I read the story back in school. Huge and gaping! Final page REPRINTS: AMAZING GHOST STORIES 14cover by MATT BAKER (St. John / October 1954) THE COMICS THAT ATE MY BRAINcover by "MADMAN" (Malibu / 1991) ABUTRE 5cover by ?? (Editorial Flama / Brazil / 1991) THE COMPLETE NIGHTMAREcover by NORMAN SAUNDERS (Gwandanaland Comics / June 14, 2017) HAUNTED HORROR 33cover by NORMAN SAUNDERS (IDW / April 2018) I'm surprised this obscure little 5-pager has been reprinted this many times!
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 19, 2019 22:03:17 GMT -5
Now here's a weird one for you. FANTASTIC Vol.1 No.3cover by BARYE PHILLIPS (Ziff-Davis / November-December 1952) John Jakes wrote a SEQUEL to " The Cask of Amontillado", which appeared in a pulp magazine: " The Opener Of The Crypt". In the early 1970s, this story was adapted into comics form. However... a mere 3 months later, " The Iger Shop" did their own sequel to " Amontillado"... and the two are similar enough, that the comics version could be looked at as an unauthorized adaptation of Jakes' story. STRANGE FANTASY 4cover by [IGER SHOP] (Ajax-Farrell / February 1953) This story has been reprinted multiple times by Myron Fass' " Eerie Publications". I don't have scans of the original 1953 comic, but I do have scans of one of the B&W reprints... "DEMON IN THE DUNGEON" (a sequel to "THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO") Story & Art by [IGER SHOP] final page REPRINTS WEIRD v.3 1 [v.2 5]cover by CARL BURGOS (Eerie Publications / January 1968) TERROR TALES v.2 2cover by BILL ALEXANDER (Eerie Publications / March 1970) WITCHES TALES v3 3cover by JOHNNY BRUCK (Eerie Publications / June 1971) The 4th Eerie Pub. to feature this story actualy had the art redone from scratch by artist Cirilo Munoz (but, I don't have that one up yet!). All the other "reprints" on this list contained the original Iger Shop art. TERROR TALES v6 1cover by ?? (Eerie Publications / February 1974) PIT OF EVIL 8cover by ?? (Gredown / January 1978) TORMENTS OF HELL [one-shot] cover by ?? (Gredown / Boraig / 1984) PRE-CODE CLASSICS: STRANGE FANTASY Vol.1cover by ?? (PS Artbooks / May 2015)
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 20, 2019 18:06:50 GMT -5
EC's 5th Poe adaptation is even more "loose" than usual, but on the other hand, it features one of the best artists to ever work in the industy... GEORGE EVANS. SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES 8cover by AL FELDSTEIN (EC / April-May 1953) "SEEP NO MORE" (inspired by "THE TELL-TALE HEART") / Version 4 Story by Albert B. Feldstein / Art by GEORGE EVANS final page
When I first found this story, it was in the form of 3 hi-res scans of the original art. I COLORED them myself! I couldn't afford an original comic, so I eventually sprung for a 90s reprint, and as you can see above, the line reproduction kinda sucked. Below is much sharper!
REPRINTS SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES 2cover by AL FELDSTEIN (Russ Cochran / 1981) ISKALDE GROSS 4cover by AL FELDSTEIN (Semic / Norway / 1992) SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES 8cover by AL FELDSTEIN (Russ Cochran / June 1994) SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES ANNUAL 2cover by WALLY WOOD (Gemstone / 1994) EC ARCHIVES: SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES 2cover by AL FELDSTEIN (Gladstone / 2006) THE FANTAGRAPHICS EC ARTISTS' LIBRARY 11: ACES HIGHcover by GEORGE EVANS (Fantagraphics / December 2014) SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES 2cover by BERNI WRIGHTSON (??) (Akileos / France / February 2016)
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 21, 2019 20:57:29 GMT -5
Youthful did another Poe adaptation... CHILLING TALES 16cover by MATT FOX (Youthful / June 1953) "THE CURSE OF METZENGERSTEIN" / Version 1 Adaptation & Art by VINCE NAPOLI final page This one is so obscure, it's apparently never been reprinted. Oddly enough, my introduction to this story was the Italian film " HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRE", released in the US as " SPIRITS OF THE DEAD", with the Count becoming the Countess... played by Jane Fonda!
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