Corto Maltese #9 - The Golden House of Samarkand

(January 2018)

[introduction] (Table of Contents: 1)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

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Corto Maltese has counted prominent names among its admirers...

Indexer Notes

Inside facing half of front gatefold cover. Contains a pull quote from Joe McCullough, a brief description of the story of the volume, and an uncredited old photograph of the Amboise Gate of Rhodes.

[map of the Middle East and southern Central Asia] (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 Middle East and southern Central Asia, the setting for the story.

The Golden House of Samarkand (Table of Contents: 3)

credits, title page / 6 pages (report information)

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Hugo Pratt

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Hugo Pratt

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

The Golden House of Samarkand (Table of Contents: 4)

Corto Maltese / comic story / 139 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); Guido Fuga (artwork of cars and machine gun)

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Hugo Pratt (credited); Guido Fuga (artwork of cars and machine gun)

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Straight from Baron Corvo's hoax to a ruse of Trelawny's.

Genre

adventure; historical

Characters

Corto Maltese; Bahiar; Captain Sorrentino; Cassandra; Narcissus; Marianne; Rasputin; Chevket; Venexiana Stevenson

Synopsis

After the "Fable of Venice", Corto is in Rhodes and begins searching for a treasure hidden by Alexander the Great in Afghanistan - a pretext to free Rasputin from a prison. To do this, he crosses three emerging states - the Turkish Republic, the Soviet Union and Reza Pahlavi's Iran - and meets various cultures.

Reprints

• from Corto Maltese (Rizzoli Libri, 1983 series) #v1#2, #v1#3 [3], #v2#1 [4], #v2#2 [5], #v2#3 [6], #v2#4 [7], #v2#5 [8], #v2#6 [9], #v2#7 [10], #v2#8 [11], #v2#9 [12], #v2#10 [13], #v2#11 [14], #v2#12 [15], #v3#1 [16], #v3#2 [17], #v3#3 [18], #v3#4 [19]
• from Linus (Milano Libri Edizioni, 1965 series) #187, #190, #193, #216
• from Corto Maltese (Rizzoli Libri, 1983 series) #v1#1 (Ottobre 1983)

Indexer Notes

The original publication began simultaneously in Italy in the magazine Linus (see reprint links) and in French in the magazine (À Suivre) from #31-32 (August-September 1980) to #37 (February 1981). This interupted content corresponds to the first 22.5 pages of the story in the book.

The first story page in the book is a black-and-white reproduction of watercolor painted comic panels that were published in color in Linus. The following 21.5 pages have been edited after the original publication, the lower half of the 13th story page was not part of the original publication in (À Suivre).

The original publication was resumed and completed in Italy in the magazine Corto Maltese (see reprint links).

The Corto Maltese Series (Table of Contents: 5)

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List of all the volumes in the series. Preceding page and reverse side are blank.

[map of the Middle East and southern Central Asia] (Table of Contents: 6)

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Reverse side of rear gatefold cover (repeated from reverse of front gatefold cover). Historical map of Middle East and southern Central Asia, the setting for the story.

[biography of Hugo Pratt] (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Indexer Notes

Inside facing half of rear gatefold cover. Biography of Hugo Pratt and an uncredited photograph of Hugo Pratt in Rhodes 1978.

Praise for Hugo Pratt and Corto Maltese (Table of Contents: 8)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Project-Nerd; Library Journal; Alex Mangles, tor.com; The New York Journal of Books; Publishers Weekly; A. V. Club; Dan Greenfield, 13th Dimension; Scoop; JT Lindroos, bookgasm

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Harvey Award Winner and Eisner Award Nominee

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Rear cover; pull quotes of praise from various reviews.