SELECOES DE TERROR 81-90
Early issues from Editora Continental / Outubro must be a rare thing. Very few of them have been posted online in their entirety, few of them turn up for sale online, and it's even difficult to find covers posted. But I do what I can.
Sometime in the mid-1960s, Continental / Outubro founders Jayme Cortez & Miguel Penteado had a falling out. Cortez left to go into advertising, while Penteado left to start a new publishing house, Graphic Editora Penteado (GEP). This left the once artist-driven company in the hands of their business partners-- the accountants. Around this same time, Editora Abril (April) hit them with ANOTHER "cease-and-decist" order, as they had registered a Trademark on every month of the year. Bering forced to change their company name for the 2nd time in under 5 years, they hit on "Taika", the name of one of their nieces. (I swear, you just could not make up a story like this.)
The company continued on for another decade, although the number of reprints increased exponentially, and the quality of their printing (and cover design work) steadily nosedived. A sad end to an outfit that started out so promising.
But in the meantime, in spite of all that, they did manage to knock out some FABULOUS material, including a TON of new covers among the growing number of reprints. MOST of the new covers were by Nico Rosso, who also became the main artist on their long-running "Dracula" series.
Personally, I wish websites would simply lump any books from Continental / Outubro / Taika together and treat it like the SINGLE publishing company it really was.
Many of these have not turned up yet. I'll be posting them when they do.
Over a 2-year period, I slowly pieced together a baffling mystery about many of Taika's books, which was that several series would be lumped together in a single numbering, which would be listed on the indicia inside the books. In 1969, they started putting those "group" or "production" numbers on the covers... just to add to the confusion.
ENJOY!
SELECOES DE TERROR 81
cover by NICO ROSSO
(Editora Taika / Brazil / September 1968)
"THE PARK OF HORRORS"
cover by ??
(Editora Taika / Brazil / October 1968)
"??" (not yet available)
SELECOES DE TERROR 83
cover by NICO ROSSO
(Editora Taika / Brazil / November 1968)
"??"
cover by NICO ROSSO
(Editora Taika / Brazil / December 1968)
"DEATH IN THE CIRCUS"
cover by NICO ROSSO
(Editora Taika / Brazil / January 1969)
"??"
cover by ??
(Editora Taika / Brazil / February 1969)
"THE UNKNOWN BODY" (not yet available)
SELECOES DE TERROR 87
cover by ??
(Editora Taika / Brazil / March 1969)
"REVENGE!" (not yet available)
SELECOES DE TERROR 88
cover by NICO ROSSO
(Editora Taika / Brazil / April 1969)
"THE REVOLT OF THE LIVING DEAD"
cover by ??
(Editora Taika / Brazil / May 1969)
"FOR SALE: A HAUNTED CASTLE" (not yet available)
SELECOES DE TERROR 90
cover by NICO ROSSO
(Editora Taika / Brazil / June 1969)
"THE VAMPIRE YELLOW QUARTER"
Scans of SELECOES DE TERROR #81, 83 & 84
from the Mercado Livre site.
Scans of SELECOES DE TERROR #85 & 88
from the Guia Dos Quadrinhos site.
Scan of SELECOES DE TERROR #90
from the RS Raridades site.
Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa
For more:
Read about Editora Continental / Outubro / Taika at Guia Dos Quadrinhos.
Read about Jayme Cortez Martins at Wikipedia.
Read about Jayme Cortez Martins at Bigorna.net.
Visit the Jayme Cortez blog!
See more covers from Editora Outubro at the Nostalgia Do Terror site.
See more covers from Editora Taika at the Nostalgia Do Terror site.
(Continued in Selecoes De Terror, Pt. 10)
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