CoronaVirus Captain's Library & Theatre MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Protagonist, Prince Prospero...

As the Red Death sweeps across the land, cruel Prince Prospero shelters his toadying "friends" in his castle while forcing the peasants to survive as best they can in the plague-ridden countryside.

He also lusts for peasant girl Francesca and has taken her (along with her father and betrothed) to his fortress.

But the captive Francesca has strange visions where past, present, and a possible future all intermingle.
Prospero dismisses her dreams and considers what fate should befall his two captives, her father and her beloved Gino.
When an escape attempt fails, the Prince devises a public spectacle to punish the two who mean the most to Francesca...

Not quite as bloody as the movie, but even though Dell Comics didn't belong to the Comics Code, they realized there were some things a newsstand comic couldn't get away with in 1964!
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Masque of the Red Death

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CoronaVirus Captain's Library MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Part 2

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As the Red Death sweeps across the land, cruel Prince Prospero shelters his toadying "friends' in his castle while forcing the peasants to survive as best they can in the plague-ridden countryside.

He also lusts for peasant girl Francesca and has taken her (along with her father and betrothed) to his fortress.

But the captive Francesca has strange visions where past, present, and a possible future all intermingle...

Who will live?
Who will die?
Will the party really be the social event of the year?

Find Out This Weekend!

Illustrated by Frank Springer, Dell's Masque of the Red Death (1964) is a fairly-faithful adaptation of the Roger Corman movie based on Edgar Allan Poe's stpry of the same name.

However, due to time constraints, in order to have the comic on newsstands when the movie was in theaters, it was produced using only the script and promo photos as reference, so there are some differences between it and the film as released!

AIP Studios knew the value of comics to their target audience ('tweens and teenagers) and a number of their films, including Beach Blanket Bingo and most of Roger Corman's "Poe" flicks, were adapted into Dell Comics (who didn't follow the Comics Code)!

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Masque of the Red Death

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CoronaVirus Captain's Library MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Part 1

A cruel ruler who enjoys tormenting his subjects and allows a pandemic to kill them!

Who does that remind us of?

What does Francesca tell Prospero, and how does he react?

Find Out Next Week!

Illustrated by Frank Springer, Dell's Masque of the Red Death (1964) is a fairly-faithful adaptation of the Roger Corman movie based on Edgar Allan Poe's stpry of the same name.

However, due to time constraints, in order to have the comic on newsstands when the movie was in theaters, it was produced using only the script and promo photos as reference, so there are some differences between it and the film as released!

The village is called "Catania" in the film, but Prince Prospero refers to it as "Esteban" in the comic.

AIP Studios knew the value of comics to their target audience ('tweens and teenagers) and a number of their films, including Beach Blanket Bingo and most of Roger Corman's "Poe" flicks, were adapted into Dell Comics (who didn't follow the Comics Code)!

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Masque of the Red Death

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CoronaVirus Captain's Library I AM LEGEND: AWAKENINGS "Losing Voice: Ethan's Story"

When the post-apocalyptic pandemic movie I Am Legend opened in 2007...

...this comic, which combined both new material and adaptations of several motion comics from the film's website was distributed to comic stores and movie theaters!

Written by Steve Niles and illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz, this was the first of four prequel stories set in the movie's universe.

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I Am Legend/Omega Man

Which features both the recent Will Smith version and the 1970s Charlton Heston version!

(But not the 1960s Vincent Price adaptation.

That one, you can get here...)

Last Man on Earth