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"The Fall of the House of Usher"
28 pgs. Appeared first time
in
A Corben Special #1 (1984).
Reprinted
in
Edgar Allan Poe (1985).
Story: Edgar Allan Poe. Color(colored
by overlays): Herb & Diana Arnold.
Adapt/Art: Richard Corben (no signature). Lettered by printed.
FRA:
as "La
Chute de la Maison Usher", as a 3 part serial in Spécial
USA [II] #12 to #14/15
(1985),
and as one in La chute
de la maison Usher (1987).
ITA:
as "La rovina della
casa Usher",
as a 4 part serial in L'Eternauta
#28 to #31.
SPA:
as "La caída de
la casa Usher", as a 4 part serial in Creepy
[SPA] #59
(1984) to #62 (1984),
as
one in Richard Corben obras completas #4
(1985).
Style: Black line, full color by overlays. Genre: Horror. Time
Span: Gothic past. Nudity: Almost full frontal (voluputuous
girl on pgs 10, 12, 14–15, 18, 22, 26, 27).
Keywords: Haunted house. Ghostly sick sister. Family
mausoleum.
Origin: Edgar Allan Poe short story, "The
Fall of the House of Usher".
Synopsis: Last member of Usher family asks his friend
for company. Friend meets Usher girl, whose brother claims her
to be sick. Soon sister dies, but Usher's family meets their
prediction.
Comment: Edgar Allan Poe's powerful story gets a brilliant
comics version by Corben. Herb and Diana Anrold's gloomy color
work is without saying impressive. All pages have grey background
instead of paper white. There goes also a lot of frames out of
paper edge on left and right. Because of Album's (1985) page
is more wider than Comic Book's (1984), you can see more art
in Album version on both sides.
Copyright © 2006 Heart-Attack-Series,
Ink!,
Appeared first time 4th Sept. 1997. Last modified
June 26, 2008.
