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Professor H's Wayback Machine

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« Reply #500 on: July 14, 2015, 05:44:31 PM »

Great to see the Gold Bug story.
I read this in a hardback anthology many years ago and after learning the rudimentary decyphering technique I began working cryptograms in the local newspaper. i got so good at it that for awhile I could read cyptograms as easily as if they were printed in plain English.
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« Reply #501 on: July 16, 2015, 09:05:04 PM »

From CALAFRIO #1 (Editora D'Arte / 1981)
comes the 2nd comics version of Poe's
"MORELLA"
     art by Eugenio Colonnese
(done in 1967 but unpublished when the publisher went bankrupt)

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/07/poe-1967-pt-4.html
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« Reply #502 on: July 27, 2015, 01:47:59 AM »

From ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #3 (Editora Taika / May'73)
comes the 3rd comics version of Poe's
"BERENICE"
     art by Ignacio Justo
(reprint from the late 1960s)

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/07/poe-1968-pt-1.html
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« Reply #503 on: August 01, 2015, 07:51:44 PM »

From CLASSICOS DE TERROR #5 (Editora Taika / Jun'73)
comes the 2nd comics version of Poe's
"MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN A BOTTLE"
     art by Osvaldo Talo
(reprint from the late 1960s)

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/07/poe-1968-pt-2.html
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« Reply #504 on: August 03, 2015, 03:12:21 AM »

My jaw is dropping right now. My friend In Brazil, Toni Rodrigues, just came through in a manner and to an extent to which I never even dreamed of, and which exceeded any possible expectations I might have had.

He just e-mailed me-- in ONE go-- the contents of 4 different Brazillian comics, containing no less than 8 POE stories I didn't have before! 8 !!!!!!!!!! I'm absolutely astonished.

Among them was the Manoel Ferreira "RED DEATH", possibly the single story I have done more online searches for than any other, since I first learned of its existence.

This is just incredible. At the rate I'm, going, I won't even get to the stuff from Italy until September... at the earliest.
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« Reply #505 on: August 07, 2015, 06:08:35 PM »

From CLASSICOS DE TERROR #5 (Editora Taika / Jun'73)
comes the 1st comics version of Poe's
"WILLIAM WILSON"
     art by Osvaldo Talo
(reprint from the late 1960s)

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/08/poe-1968-pt-3.html
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« Reply #506 on: August 15, 2015, 04:11:09 AM »

From CLASSICOS DE TERROR #1 (Editora Continental / 1960)
comes the 3rd comics version of Poe's
"A CASK OF AMONTILLADO"
     art by Gedeone Malagola

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/08/poe-1960-pt-5.html
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« Reply #507 on: August 18, 2015, 03:08:28 PM »

The following was addressed to Mike Cannon, who runs the "horror" group... but I decided to share it here.

Okay, so, in addition to this "Agata" person (fake name, her real name is "Gloria"), the other day this "Wong" guy (who looks like he can't be more than 15-- typical smart-ass teenager) posts in my "POE IN PROGRESS" thread. He joined your horror group, hadn't posted a single comment, and out of the blue, posts in MY thread, just to tell me everything I'm doing is wrong.

Says he prefers the art in B&W, as color makes the linework go "fuzzy". Now, if he'd been around more than a couple of months, he might have known my opinion is that about 98% of the underage halfwits who do Photoshop coloring have NO IDEA what they're doing, do what Dick Ayers called "overdone" coloring, with excessive amounts of brightness, DARKNESS, SHADOWS, and airbrushed renderings all over every square inch of everything, to the point where you can't even SEE the linework!!! It's an INSULT to the artists' work, and appears to be saying, "HEY! Look at ME! LOOK AT ME!!!!"

I don't do that.

In fact, on this particular story (the Malagola "Amontillado"), more than any previous story I worked on, I pondered for DAYS whether or not I should add color, as my goal is to "enhance", not "overpower". Since I'd already decided to color ALL the Brazillian comics, I decided to take a crack at it. BOY was I glad I did. If you look at the story AT the blog-- on a full-size computer screen-- you can SEE every single detail of the linework. Not one bit of it was "obliterated".

I also have seen ONE instance where lines actually did get "blurry"-- it was on the Tom Sutton "Red Death". A solid RED color somehow made the black lines go fuzzy. My way to fix this was simple-- I saved the final reduced image at the HIGHEST quality. That did it, nice and SHARP. No loss of detail at all.

Then he starts wondering if I used "software" to clean up the yellowed scans to make them white. And "if not", he suggests I use a particular software I've never heard of. Says "with one click" it does it "automatically".

I DON'T DO ANYTHING "automatically".

Something somebody at Kirby-L explained to me was "levels". You click on an area that should be white, and every single part of the page, it removes yellow. But it is VERY tricky, and takes a delicate hand to know where to touch it, and how much adjustment to make.

There's an "auto-levels" button. I never use it. IT'S CRAP.

It reminds me of this "option" Blogger added WITHOUT telling anybody. 'Auto-enhance". When you upload images, it "enhances" them for you-- automatically. Now, imagine this. A person spends minutes-- or hours-- OR DAYS (!!!!!) adjusting an image to get it "just-- right". And this "auto" feature FUCKS IT UP for you. FUCKS it!!!!! And the ASSHOLES who added this feature left it TURNED ON by default.

Somebody in the Google Blogger "help" message boards had to explain to everybody else where to FIND the options, so you could SHUT THE GOD-DAMNED THING OFF.

Fortunately, I only had 2 weeks of images uploaded that needed to be RE-uploaded.

Anyway, this "Wong" guy, to me, must be an IDIOT. The very first thing he says, he's trying to undercut ALL the MONTHS of love and hard work I'm pouring into this project, he talks to me as if I DON'T KNOW what I'm doing, and on top of everything else, suggests I use something that will clean the pages "automatically".

If he had ever worked with 55-year-old scans, he would KNOW you CAN NOT "clean" them with "one click", NO MATTER WHAT the hell kind of software you've got.

I mean, geez... it took 2 WHOLE DAYS for me to clean that last Jayme Cortez PAINTING!

I pondered for a whole day whether to engage this "Wong" guy in conversation. Then I decided... NAAAAH! And I just hit the "BLOCK" button. He doesn't DESERVE to see updates on my project.
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« Reply #508 on: August 20, 2015, 02:07:34 PM »

From CLASSICOS DE TERROR #8 (Editora Continental / 1960)
comes the 1st comics version of Poe's
"BERENICE"
     art by Flavio Colin

This is still only an excerpt... but another page did turn up, and that inspired me to color all 3 that I have so far. Still not completely sure what comic it appeared in, but it seems a reasonable guess, by process of elimination. The scans were lousy, but, you do what you can!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/08/poe-1960-pt-6.html
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« Reply #509 on: August 26, 2015, 04:18:19 PM »

From CLASSICOS DE TERROR #9 (Editora Continental / 1960)
comes the 2nd comics version of Poe's
"THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH"
     art by Manoel Ferreira

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/08/poe-1960-pt-7.html
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« Reply #510 on: September 03, 2015, 12:54:46 AM »

From CLASSICOS DE TERROR #9 (Editora Continental / 1960)
comes the 6th comics version of Poe's
"THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM"
     art by Gedeone Malagola

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/08/poe-1960-pt-8.html
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« Reply #511 on: September 17, 2015, 05:49:44 PM »

From ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #5 (Editora Taika / 1967)
comes the 4th comics version of Poe's
"THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER"
     art by Osvaldo Talo

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/09/poe-1967-pt-3.html
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« Reply #512 on: October 12, 2015, 08:03:10 PM »

From ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #7 (Editora Taika / 1967)
comes the 3rd comics version of Poe's
"THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR"
     art by Ignacio Justo

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/09/poe-1967-pt-4.html

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/10/poe-1967-pt-5.html
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« Reply #513 on: November 01, 2015, 05:19:26 AM »

Jumping back to the early 1950s for a bit now...

From THE HAUNT OF FEAR #15 [1]  (EC / May'Jun'50)
comes the 2nd comics versions of Poe's
"THE BLACK CAT" and "THE TELL-TALE HEART" in one story!
     art by Johnny Craig

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/11/poe-1950.html
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« Reply #514 on: November 03, 2015, 12:07:49 AM »

From ADVENTURES INTO WEIRD WORLDS #4  (Marvel / Spring'52)
comes the 1st comics versions of Poe's
"THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH"
     art by Bill Everett

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/11/poe-1952-pt-1.html
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« Reply #515 on: November 03, 2015, 02:01:15 AM »

Strange, seems like that would have been one of the first
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« Reply #516 on: November 04, 2015, 01:18:43 AM »

Research is funny that way.  A whole YEAR in, and about 8 stories, all from the early 50s, suddenly turned up.

Because of the nature of blogs, I've spent the last couple days setting up new versions of pages from a year ago, in order to insert all the "new" stories discovered since them (which includes a number of them over the last 12 months) so they'll appear in the "archive" and editing pages in sequence.  (Otherwise, the more I add out of sequence, the more difficult it becomes to find each one for future revisions-- and I'm revising ALL THE TIME.)
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« Reply #517 on: November 05, 2015, 01:02:53 AM »

Something a bit different...

From FANTASTIC Vol.1 #3  (Ziff-Davis / Nov-Dec'52)
comes an illustrated version of Poe's
"THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO"
     art by Virgil Finlay
and an illustrated sequel in the same issue!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/11/poe-1952-pt-6.html
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« Reply #518 on: November 05, 2015, 11:55:57 PM »

You know, it's one thing to do a blatent SWIPE of a Poe story, but it's quite another to do a blatent SWIPE of somebody else's SEQUEL to a Poe story-- and only 3 months after said story was published!

From STRANGE FANTASY #4  (Ajax-Farrell / Feb'53)
comes a sequel to Poe's
"THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO"
     art by the Iger Shop

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/11/poe-1953-pt-1.html

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« Reply #519 on: November 06, 2015, 08:54:43 AM »

How does the saying go?

"Geniuses create! Talented writers are inspired! Comic Book creators get it off the back of a truck, no questions asked."  ;)
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« Reply #520 on: November 07, 2015, 01:32:57 AM »

 ;D

It was a surprise to me.  My friend Mike Cannon Jr. pointed me at that story, then e-mailed me images to clean up.  I did research, found when it had first been published.  And then I read it... and suddenly realized how SIMILAR it was to another comic done in 1973.  So I did research on that, and discovered the short story that one had been based on... was published only 3 MONTHS before the earlier comic sequel.  WILD!!

So of course, I eventually decided I had to set up pages for BOTH, back-to-back, despite not having any art from the original short story sequel.  (Sometimes, things turn up.. later.)



Now if only someone could identify who did the "Iger Shop" art...
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« Reply #521 on: November 13, 2015, 12:57:07 AM »

From SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES #8  (EC / Apr-May'53)
comes the 4th comics version of Poe's
"THE TELL-TALE HEART"  (more or less)
     art by the George Evans  (3 pages of it anyway)

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/11/poe-1953-pt-2.html
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« Reply #522 on: November 13, 2015, 03:46:02 AM »

From THE HAUNT OF FEAR #20  (EC / Jul-Aug'53)
comes the 5th comics version of Poe's
"THE TELL-TALE HEART"  (more or less)
     art by the Graham Ingels

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/11/poe-1953-pt-4.html
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« Reply #523 on: November 23, 2015, 05:45:52 AM »

From DARK MYSTERIES #23  (Master Comics  /  May'55)
comes the 2nd comics version of Poe's
"METZENGERSTEIN"
     art by the Jon D'Agostino

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/11/poe-1955-pt-2.html
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« Reply #524 on: November 26, 2015, 05:39:49 AM »

From TERROR ILLUSTRATED #1  (EC / Nov'Dec'55)
comes the 4th comics version of Poe's
"THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER"
also including the 2nd comics version of Poe's
"THE PREMATURE BURIAL"
     art by George Evans

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/11/poe-1955-pt-3.html
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