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[profh0011]

"THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE"  /
Gallery of Illustrations   by various artists

https://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2020/01/poe-1968-pt-30.html



Okay, NOW I can send out the e-mails....

[paw broon]

That's great work.  Difficult to believe how much effort you've put into this.

[profh0011]

Been waiting to get to this since last summer (which isn't anywhere near as long as some of the items I'm looking forward to tackling)...

from 3 HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRES
(Editions Serg  /  France  /  January 1973)
comes the 7th comics version of Poe's
"THE GOLD BUG"
     Art by Alexis-Thomas Hinsberger

https://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2020/01/poe-1968-pt-31.html

Created in 1968 but not published until 5 years later!

[The Australian Panther]

Great stuff!

[profh0011]

from 3 HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRES
(Editions Serg  /  France  /  January 1973)
comes the 8th comics version of Poe's
"THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER"
     Art by Alexis-Thomas Hinsberger

https://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2020/01/poe-1968-pt-34.html

2 stories down, 1 to go!

[profh0011]

from 3 HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRES
(Editions Serg  /  France  /  January 1973)
comes the 3rd comics version of Poe's
"METZENGERSTEIN"
     Art by Alexis-Thomas Hinsberger

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2020/02/poe-1968-pt-36.html

[profh0011]

This one's about 5-1/2 YEARS overdue...

from THE SPIRIT
(Register & Tribune Syndicate  /  August 22, 1948)
comes the 3rd comics version of Poe's
"THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER"
     Art by Will Eisner & Jerry Grandenetti

https://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2020/02/poe-1948-pt-1.html

[The Australian Panther]

Surely its more likely that Grandenetti based the Narrator on the image of Poe himself?
I don't ever seem able to post an image here,but look at these iconic ones.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=Edgar+Allen+Poe&atb=v165-1&ia=news

[profh0011]

The earliest POE biography comic just turned up...

from ENCHANTING LOVE  2
(Kirby Publishing  /  November 1949)
"THE BEAUTIFUL ANNABEL LEE"
     Art by Bill Draut & Bruno Premiani

https://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2020/03/poe-1949-pt-4.html

[The Australian Panther]

Very Nice. Great Find!

[profh0011]

SEVERAL years overdue...

from SPELLBOUND #2
(Marvel  /  April 1952)
comes the 3rd comics version of Poe's
"THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM"
     Art by Russ Heath

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/11/poe-1952-pt-2.html

Maddeningly... THE DAY after I got this finished, fan Richard Gagnon pointed me at MUCH-BETTER scans of the story... which I am now working on.  I've cleaned up stories twice... but not, twice back-to-back!  (Done!)

[profh0011]

The single longest story in this entire project so far:

LE AVENTURES DE GORDON PYM
(Collection LeRuban Rouge  /  Librairie Arth

[The Australian Panther]

Prof,

In your absence, this thread was created on CB+. Unlikely to be anything there you don't know about tho.

https://comicbookplus.com/forum/index.php?topic=18266.0 


Cheers!

[profh0011]

UNEXPECTED good news.

I just spent the usual half-hour scrolling thru Ebay for "Novelas Inmortales", where seller "Bob Drake" (NOT his real name, heh) posted about 8 more issues I've never seen before, none of which are POE related.

And, once again, not one single "Joyas De La Literatura".

But then I looked at my general wanted list...

The 1910 John Rea Neill POE book has dropped in price from $435.00 to $420.00.  (Hah, hah.)

But... the 1944 "YELLOWJACKET COMICS" #4 from Charlton... which someone sold on Heritage Auctions (before I had a chance to even know about it) for $42.00...   and which is currently going for $75.00, $85.00 and $97.50 (different copies from different sellers...

...just turned up-- in a COVERLESS copy-- for $13.81 (including shipping & tax).

ORDERED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This contains the earliest comics verison of "Usher"... and the scans I was forced to deal with at the Comic Book Plus site were HORRIFIC.  Now, it doesn't matter if I don't have the cover (I already have an image at the blog).  All that matters is being able to SLAP this baby down on my SCANNER and do MY OWN HIGH-RES SCANS !!!!!!!!!

[The Australian Panther]

I can see the smile on your face from here!
I hope that scan shows up on CB+ eventually! Just sayin'!

Happy Hunting!

[profh0011]

Now here's a huge difference. I think you should be able to open each of these in separate browswer windows, and quickly compare "BEFORE" and "AFTER".  The difference is SHOCKING!

BEFORE:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZwaVM1Hif-M/WvZPHt4q1GI/AAAAAAAAlGo/5qVmtGOfcYUmBatiIfqfVj1iMGoMx7ZnwCLcBGAs/s1600/1944%2BCh%2BYJ%2B004_p30c_CBP%2B%2BD700.jpg

AFTER:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-68VgAe2xsGY/X0m5_t8vkAI/AAAAAAAAuYY/N2Y7zIPx-1ktrUUvKGCoX3eABRKSqdXRgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1944%2BCh%2BYJ%2B004_p30%2B%2BC700.jpg

[Andrew999]

Nice work - I prefer the second but I recognise that others might prefer the first because of the texture and feel

[profh0011]

Possibly the single most time-consuming "upgrade" I've ever done...

from YELLOWJACKET COMICS #4
(Charlton  /  December 1944)
comes the 1st comics version of Poe's
"THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER"
     Art by Gus Schrotter

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2018/05/poe-1944-pt-9.html

[The Australian Panther]

Possibly the single most time-consuming "upgrade" I've ever done...

And well worth it Prof! A credit to you!

[profh0011]

Thanks!  Only when I'm able to do my own HIGH-RES scans right off the book itself (or, when somebody e-mails me scans of similar quality) is it really worth putting in THAT much excessive effort.  And the thing is, I know there's a LOT MORE I could still do... but... you GOTTA know when to say, "THAT'S ENOUGH!" (It's mostly color plate registration problems... the red was off in one direction, the blue was off in the OTHER direction.)

It's so much easier when I'm cleaning up B&W art... and then I can add color myself from scratch.

[profh0011]

from Larry Ivie's MONSTERS & HEROES #1:
(M & H Publications / 1967)

"TEMPLE OF EVIL"
"INTRODUCING ALTRON-BOY"

https://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2021/02/altron-boy-pt-1.html

[profh0011]

from Larry Ivie's MONSTERS & HEROES #2:
(M & H Publications / Sep'67)

"DRAGON SLAYER"
"ALTRON-BOY AND THE ISLE OF MONSTERS"
"SECRET OF THE ALTRON BOY"
"IN THE CITADEL OF VOLTAR"

3 chapters by Larry Ivie, plus the very 1st published story from Louise Jones & Jeff Jones!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2021/02/altron-boy-pt-2.html

[paw broon]

This is good stuff Prof.  I remember the Dragon Slayer story which I read many years ago, but I don't think it was in Monsters and Heroes.  That's not a title I'm in any way familiar with.  It must have been reprinted somewhere else but frustratingly, I can't figure out where.

[profh0011]

It's been like pulling teeth to get my best friend (who I talk to on the phone every week) to even LOOK at my blog pages, which can be annoying, as we both used to be in the same comics A.P.A. (and he's still in it).  He loves comics, and he loves HORROR... but in the last 6 years, I haven't heard ONE WORD from him about my POE project!  (Wouldn't that drive you up a wall?)  I get more response from people in Mexico, Brazil and Canada!

But when I mentioned "superhero", he promised he'd look.  His main comment was that Ivie's art reminded him of Golden Age work.  I can sort of see that.  Ivie's interest in Edgar Rice Burrough, Tarzan, old movie serials and the like is so strong, it wouldn't surprise me if he wasn't influenced by the likes of Alex Raymond.  (I'm pretty sure there's a Frazetta swipe in the 2nd issue... but then again, I have a feeling the panel I'm thinking of may have been swiped from an EVEN earlier source.)


Crazy enough, that ONE panel inspired me to write 4 pages of heavy-duty "story notes" with a ton of dialogue.  I have NOT been able to focus at all on writing for the last several years (it's like some kind of post-traumatic stress syndrome thing), but staring at a panel of Larry Ivie art KICKED something in my brain into gear.