Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HP LOVECRAFT'S THE CALL OF CTHULHU "Call of Cthulhu" Part 2

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Title Page from the first appearance of this tale, in Weird Tales V11N2 (1928)!

Inheriting the papers and personal effects of his late grand-uncle, linguistic professor George Gammell Angell, our narrator discovers a small bas-relief sculpture which yields "simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature", along with documents mentioning frequent references to Cthulhu and R'lyeh!

Tracing the documented incidents leads to a larger statue of indeterminate, but undeniable antiquity...perhaps predating known history...

To Be Concluded Next Wednesday!

Here's a couple of pages from this section of the original Spanish language publication, showing the unique color palette used for the story!

Pity these have never been reprinted in any of the several English-language editions!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HP LOVECRAFT'S THE CALL OF CTHULHU "Call of Cthulhu" Part 1

  If we're going to present Lovecraft...

...let's start with the seminal tale of cosmic horror by H P!

To be Continued Next Wednesday!
Adapted by Esteban Maroto, who did both script (in Spanish) and art for Editorial Bruguera in 1982.

Howver, Bruguera went bankrupt before publication.

Maroto shopped the material around and it finally appeared in Ediciones B's Capitán Trueno magazine in 1986.
Here are a couple of pages from that adaptation...

In 1990, a new American comics publisher, CrossPlains, made a deal with Maroto to publish the project in English, with the translation supplied by Roy Thomas.

But, due to budget limitations, they printed it in b/w.
That's the version we're running here.
It's been re-published since with another translation, but still in b/w.

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Space Force Saturdays WORLDS UNKNOWN "Black Destroyer" Conclusion

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While exploring an alien world, the crew of the exploratory vessel Space Beagle encounter Coerl, who looks like a Terrestrial panther or lion...with the addition of tentacles!

But this is not a friendly housecat!

It's a primitive, but sentient, being who can not only reason, but kill and deceive...

Trivia: The announced adaptation of Day of the Triffids ended up as the cover-featured tale in the premiere issue of Worlds Unknown's b/w magazine successor, Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction...

...under a misleading, but undeniably-kool cover by Kelly Freas!
In fact, an adaptation of Theodore Sturgeon's KillDozer ran in the next issue of Worlds Unknown...

Meanwhile, back with Black Destroyer...

Roy Thomas was concerned that the finale as shown in the adaptation wasn't clear enough, so he included an explanation on the letters page...

Bonus #1: You can read the complete original short story HERE.

Feel free to compare and contrast!
Bonus #2: here are the illustrations from the original pulp magazine, so you can see how closely Dan Adkins and Jim Mooney kept to the pulp magazine "feel" of the tale!

"Black Destroyer" was later incorporated with other short stories about the exploratory vessel Space Beagle into the novel Voyage of the Space Beagle, the title of which is a tribute to Charles Darwin's scientific exploratory ship, "The Beagle".

BTW, Van Vogt sued 20th Century Fox over the 1979 movie Alien, claiming that it ripped off elements of "Black Destroyer" and "Discord in Scarlet", both of which were adapted into Voyage of the Space Beagle.

Fox settled out of court for #50,000!

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