Spiffy! Thanks, Jimmm. I'm afraid those scans are too smal for me to wanna include them.
There are, by the way, at least 2 OTHER adaptations, both quite recent. I kept tossing it around whether I should include them or not. I figured I was already pushing it including the 2 covers for the same version, from INDIA. ("Fireside Classics"-- doesn't sound Hindu, does it?)
There's a version from "Stone Arch", which looks very cartoony (I only have one TINY cover image), and there's another by some artist named Dan Ross, which looks not only cartoony, but very amateurish.
I still wanna go back to the wikipedia page and make some more additions. They had several listings where all they'd say would be, "in this year, this publisher did another version". NO more info. I was able to add artist, sometimes writers, and, when something was reprinted, and if it WAS a reprint. For example, they listed a 1990 Pendulum press book. No mention it was a reprint of the 1973 Pendulum Press book (which, you'd think would have been obvious!). Via a Google Search, I found a website page devoted to Vince Fago-- the guy who sat in for Stan Lee when Lee was in WW2. HE started Pendulum (which explains why Marvel reprinted his stuff 3 years later-- see, there was a personal connection already). Well, that blog had the 1990 book cover posted-- it was IDENTICAL to a 2010 cover, which told me, in one shot, that the 2010 book was a repring of the 1973 book. Which, in turn, on ANOTHER site, I found, was itself a reprint, as the story had originally been serialized in
WEEKLY READER magazine!! Isn't this nuts?
Roy Thomas told me he liked Henry Kiefer's art better than I did, as it gave it a real "19th Century" look. I pointed him toward Gary Gianni's version, which actually looks like it was created in the 19th Century.
All this started when I mentioned to Frank Thorne that I'd love to go looking for a copy of HIS version from 1954... and he MAILED me his "last copy"!! I couldn't do a thing with the front cover, but I was able to find a good image at Heritage Auctions. The interiors are fine, though, nothing I can't clean up.
I also loved posting ALL those links to other websites. It's like, not only is my blog page a collection, it's also a springboard to lots more stuff.
And this is only ONE story by ONE author so far!!!
