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?
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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