Corto Maltese #4 - Beyond the Windy Isles

(May 2015)

[introduction] (Table of Contents: 1)

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Corto Maltese was the first European strip to advance a mature, artistically serious sensibility within the traditional adventure format.

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Inside facing half of front gatefold cover. Contains a pull quote from Kim Thompson, a brief description of the stories in the volume, and a reproduction of an uncredited old black and white stereo card of the waterfront of Maracaibo, Venezuela.

[map of Columbia, Venezuela, British Guiana, and surrounding area] (Table of Contents: 2)

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Reverse side of front gatefold cover (repeated on reverse of rear gatefold cover). Historical map of the Caribbean coast of South America, the setting for the current volume.

Beyond the Windy Isles (Table of Contents: 3)

credits, title page / 6 pages (report information)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Title pages and publisher's indicia and book production credits. The sixth page is blank.

Chapter One: Mushroom Head (Table of Contents: 4)

credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

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Hugo Pratt (credited); Dean Mullaney (credited) (translator); Simone Castaldi (credited) (translator)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Title page with spot illustration taken from within story. Blank reverse side.

Mushroom Head (Table of Contents: 5)

Corto Maltese / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

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Hugo Pratt (credited); Dean Mullaney (credited) (translator); Simone Castaldi (credited) (translator)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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In Maracaibo, in Venezuela, where now stands an ultramodern supermarket, there once was a shop full of strange, even disturbing, objects...

Genre

adventure; fantasy-supernatural; historical

Characters

Corto Maltese; Jeremiah Steiner; Levi Columbia; Pierre La Reine

Synopsis

Jeremiah Steiner and Corto Maltese, who is still amnesiac after the previous adventure, travel to Maracaibo; where Levi Colombia, a friend of Steiner, offers the latter an expedition in search of El Dorado. Steiner tries to heal Corto's amnesia by preparing a risotto with hallucinogenic mushrooms. To convince Corto, Steiner himself eats it, and falls into a dream in which he and Corto are already looking for El Dorado, but are captured by the Indians; when they are about to be tortured and killed, Steiner wakes up. Corto recovers his memory, but rejects Levi's offer.

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• from Pif Gadget (Éditions Vaillant, 1969 series) #96 (21 décembre 1970)

Chapter Two: Banana Conga (Table of Contents: 6)

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Hugo Pratt (credited); Dean Mullaney (credited) (translator); Simone Castaldi (credited) (translator)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Venexiana Stevenson

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Title page with spot illustration taken from within story. Blank reverse side.

Banana Conga (Table of Contents: 7)

Corto Maltese / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

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Hugo Pratt (credited); Dean Mullaney (credited) (translator); Simone Castaldi (credited) (translator)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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They said that their presence was necessary to defend the lives and property of citizens of the Union...

Genre

adventure; historical

Characters

Corto Maltese; Gold Mouth; Venexiana Stevenson; Esmeralda; Mr. Sanders; Ramirez; Captain Brant; Mocenigo

Synopsis

A revolt by the local population is underway on the Mosquito Coast against the occupying forces of the Union of Northern States . Corto gets a briefcase given to him by a man killed in a shootout, and turns to Esmeralda, an agent of Gold Mouth. He encounters a bewildering array of people who are all after the briefcase, and learns it contains money to be used to purchase documents vital to the revolution. In the end, he encounters Gold Mouth, who reveals that she already has the documents. The briefcase was full of plain paper: it was part of a plan to unmask all the traitors.

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• from Pif Gadget (Éditions Vaillant, 1969 series) #103 (8 février 1971)

Chapter Three: Voodoo for the President (Table of Contents: 8)

credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

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Hugo Pratt (credited); Dean Mullaney (credited) (translator); Simone Castaldi (credited) (translator)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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President of Port Ducal

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Title page with spot illustration taken from within story. Blank reverse side.

Voodoo for the President (Table of Contents: 9)

Corto Maltese / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Hugo Pratt (credited); Dean Mullaney (credited) (translator); Simone Castaldi (credited) (translator)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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There's a law, maybe N.434, in the penal code of Port Ducal, that states "All those who, by way of magic or hypnosis, force the dead to work, will themselves be condemned to death."

Genre

adventure; historical

Characters

Corto Maltese; Jeremiah Steiner; "Big Mask"; Soledad Lokaarth; Dr. Zola; Jesus-Maria

Synopsis

Corto Maltese and Steiner sail to the Lesser Antilles. They call at Port Ducal, where a sorcerer, whom Corto nicknames "Big Mask", tells Corto that Soledad Lokaarth is being tried for witchcraft. Corto, who was amnesiac when he met Soledad, does not remember her, but decides to help her anyway. With the help of Steiner and Big Mask the plot is foiled. Soledad repays the debt she had with Corto and sets off again with Jesus-Maria, the Carib.

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• from Pif Gadget (Éditions Vaillant, 1969 series) #108 (15 mars 1971)

Chapter Four: Sweet Dream Lagoon (Table of Contents: 10)

credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Hugo Pratt (credited); Dean Mullaney (credited) (translator); Simone Castaldi (credited) (translator)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Lt Robin Stuart

Indexer Notes

Title page with spot illustration taken from within story. Blank reverse side.

Sweet Dream Lagoon (Table of Contents: 11)

Corto Maltese / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Hugo Pratt (credited); Dean Mullaney (credited) (translator); Simone Castaldi (credited) (translator)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Numerous lagoons can be found in the delta created by the Orinoco River.

Genre

adventure; fantasy-supernatural; historical

Characters

Corto Maltese; Lt. Robin Stuart

Synopsis

In the Orinoco River delta, Corto meets an English soldier, Lieutenant Robin Stuart, who is having fever delusions. Corto gathers that he is a deserter of a regiment at that time engaged in the First World War. Unable to convince him to come away with him, he leaves him medicine. The lieutenant does not take it. His hallucinations become stronger, and he relives his life as a coward in which everyone praises him for having thought about his own survival instead of respecting the hypocrisy of the British military aristocracy. The next morning Corto finds him dead, but with a smile on his face.

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• from Pif Gadget (Éditions Vaillant, 1969 series) #117 (17 mai 1971)

Chapter Five: A Tale of Two Grandfathers (Table of Contents: 12)

credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Hugo Pratt (credited); Dean Mullaney (credited) (translator); Simone Castaldi (credited) (translator)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Indexer Notes

Title page with spot illustration taken from within story. Blank reverse side.

A Tale of Two Grandfathers (Table of Contents: 13)

Corto Maltese / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

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Hugo Pratt (credited); Dean Mullaney (credited) (translator); Simone Castaldi (credited) (translator)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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Hugo Pratt (credited)

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The riverboat was about to arrive at Borja, in Peru, near No Man's Jungle, when the fight broke out.

Genre

adventure; historical

Characters

Corto Maltese; Dr. Stone; Mendoza; Marangwè; Jeremiah Steiner; Levi Columbia

Synopsis

Dr. Stone decides to go to Peru to find his grandson, who is living with his maternal grandfather Marangwè in a local indigenous tribe after the death of his parents. Stone asks for help from Levi Colombia, Steiner and Corto. Corto agrees, and is accompanied in his search by a local native, who turns out to be Marangwè. The village has been attacked by Mendoza, a slave trader. Corto and Marangwè track the slave trader and rescue the prisoners. Corto takes Marangwè and the grandson back to the mission. Stone decides not to relocate his grandson; Stone and his wife decide to move there instead.

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• from Pif Gadget (Éditions Vaillant, 1969 series) #124 (5 juillet 1971)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

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The Corto Maltese Series (Table of Contents: 15)

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List of all the volumes in the series.

Caniff, Sickles, Toth (Table of Contents: 16)

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Ad for Library of American Comics

[map of Columbia, Venezuela, British Guiana, and surrounding area] (Table of Contents: 17)

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Reverse side of rear gatefold cover (repeated from reverse of front gatefold cover). Historical map of the Caribbean coast of South America, the setting for the current volume.

[biography of Hugo Pratt] (Table of Contents: 18)

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Hugo Pratt (1927-1995) is considered one of the great graphic novelists in the history of the medium.

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Inside facing half of rear gatefold cover. Biography of Hugo Pratt and a photograph by Patrizia Zanotti of Hugo Pratt in the Caribbean, 1992.

Praise for Hugo Pratt and Corto Maltese (Table of Contents: 19)

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Library Journal; The Cedar Rapids Gazette; The New York Journal of Books; Publishers Weekly; The Big Glasgow Comics Page; Graphic Novel Reporter; Alex Mangles, tor.com; James Romberger, Comics Beat; Scoop

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Eisner Award Nominee

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Rear cover with pull quotes of praise from various reviews.