The search continues! Check this out...
CrashRyan:
"Hey, Prof. H--
While browsing the "Atlas Tales" site I stumbled across a Poe item I didn't see in your lists. It's a 6-pager from "Spellbound" #2, Apr 1952. Here's a link to the entry:
http://www.atlastales.com/issue/3689
Unfortunately they show only the first page, but it's clearly adapted from (or perhaps just inspired by) "The Pit and the Pendulum."Thanks! This answers a mystery that's been hanging around for almost 5 MONTHS now.
There was a website, "Trent's Poe Comic List", that listed SPELLBOUND #2 (Apr'52) as having a Poe story. But, no clue as to what that story might be. Just to be on the safe side, I found a decent scan of the Bill Everett cover (from the Heritage Auctions site) and did a nice restoration of it, and posted it at the blog, hoping that a story might turn up at some point.
However... a couple MONTHS later, from some other source (no single source I've found has had EVERY Poe comic listed!!), I ran across THE THING #2 (Apr'52), which it turned out, had the 1st adaptation of "The Masque of the Red Death". Since it had the same cover date (and same issue number) as SPELLBOUND #2, I figured, maybe "Trent" made a mistake.
GUESS NOT!!!
What I did was, I removed SPELLBOUND #2 and posted THE THING #2 in its place. This is the problem with blogs-- they're designed to be "journals", and I'm trying to use mine as if it was a "website". But you can only add things in the order you add them. It gets confusing, but when I add stories out of sequence (as I've had to do multiple times by now), I make up for it by fioxing the "continued in" and "continued from" links at the tops and bottoms of the pages, so anyone reading from the earliest can go right thru and read all of them in chronological sequence, even if the pages are not located sequentially.
The other problem is the blog page titles I come up with. At the moment, there are only 2 "1952" pages-- "Part 1" and "Part 2". SPELLBOUND should be either 1 or 2, not 3. The alternative (which I've done at least once) would be to make it "1951 part 8".... (if you see what I mean).
Then again, it's my blog, I can "play" with it as I like.
In the "1965" listings, I put CREEPY #3 after WAR-GODS OF THE DEEP, just so all the Dells and all the Warrens would be together, when, in fact, CREEPY #3 came out before WAR-GODS.
Since there are no interior pages currently available to post (the 1st page is maybe 100 pixels across-- worthless for my purposes) I'm not gonna interrupt the 70s Warrens I'm doing right now for anything. Maybe later when it turns up. I will add it to my index, but I don't think there's any point updating ALL THE "PIT" pages with the new info, until I have scans to go with it. (Did you know there are 6 AUDIO versions I have posted? 1 dramatic reading and 5 radio episodes-- 4 of those using the IDENTICAL script with different casts! What also cracks me up is 2 of the radio actors-- Jose Ferrer, and Tony Roberts-- were together in one of my favorite movies, A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT SEX COMEDY, as 2 men in love with the same woman. How's that for a wild connection?)
I'll bring this up in the "horror" Facebook group I'm in. You never know who might have scans sitting around.
Thanks again!
