Corto Maltese: Ballad of the Salt Sea #1

([June] 1997)

Ballad of the Salt Sea (Table of Contents: 1)

Corto Maltese / comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Script

Hugo Pratt; Ian Monk (translator)

Pencils

Hugo Pratt

Inks

Hugo Pratt

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Corto Maltese; Pandora; Cain; Cranio; Captain Rasputin; Tar Stain; Lt. Slutter; Kaiserine Augusta Fluss

Synopsis

Two children, Cain & Pandora are picked up by the pirate Rasputin. Maltese is later rescued from a raft after a mutiny. Rasputin seizes a British ship and goes looking for his German contacts when a large wave strikes.

Reprints

• from Corto Maltese (Casterman, 1975 series) #[1] - La ballade de la mer salée (janvier 1975)
which is reprinted
• from La Ballata del Mare Salato (Mondadori, 1972 series) (Gennaio 1972)
which is reprinted
• from Sgt. Kirk (Ivaldi Editore, 1967 series) #1 (Luglio 1967), #4 (Ottobre 1967), #5 (Novembre 1967), #6 (Dicembre 1967), #7 (Gennaio 1968), #8 (Febbraio 1968), #9 (Marzo 1968), #10 (Aprile 1968), #11/12 (Giugno 1968), #13 (Luglio 1968), #14 (Agosto 1968), #15 (Settembre 1968), #17 (Novembre 1968), #18 (Dicembre 1968), #19 (Gennaio 1969), #20 (Febbraio 1969)

Indexer Notes

Set in November 1913.
In English also published 1996 by Harvill Press.

Translated from the French.