{"product_id":"corto-maltese-fable-of-venice-and-other-adventures-tp","title":"Corto Maltese: Fable of Venice and Other Adventures TP","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemDetails_Creator\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tm-metadata-text-section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"pcreators\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"pcreators\"\u003eby Hugo Pratt. Translator: Dean Mullaney, Translator: Simone Castaldi\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eInternational award-winning graphic novelist Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese returns to American readers in a new collection of classic Corto tales, featuring a brilliantly executed wild chase through Venice for a vital occult treasure!\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist Hugo Pratt’s most famous creation, the indefatigable sailor Corto Maltese, sails back to American readers after a far too-long absence in Corto Maltese: Fable of Venice and Other Adventures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorto, a modern Ulysses whose wanderings in the early decades of the 20th century take him to the most fascinating places on Earth, is a hard-luck, hard-driving iconoclastic anti-hero who values freedom and independence more than wealth and status. In “Fable of Venice,” a riddle from a deceased friend plunges Corto into a phantasmagorical mystery thriller that zigzags between the solidity of dreams and the fluidity of reality. A frantic chase in 1921 Venice ensues, up twisting stairs and down tangled alleys, as Corto vies against Freemasons, occultists, budding fascists, and his friend (suddenly back from the dead) in a mad scramble to secure a mystical emerald that will open the doors of forbidden magic and unravel time and space itself!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition, this collection also presents Pratt’s Corto Maltese classics “The Secret of Tristan Bantam,” “So Much for Gentlemen of Fortune,” and “The Seagull's Fault,”. As a side note, readers who enjoyed The Magnificent Adventure by Milo Manara and its book-length search for “H.P.” will be quick to note that “H.P.” is, in fact, Hugo Pratt, a beloved mentor to Manara.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"013","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48225431617792,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8613\/2805\/files\/CortoMaltese_FableofVenice_HugoPratt_3D_540x_8f458653-9b22-49b1-8a31-c0c9f1d480ba.webp?v=1775069211","url":"https:\/\/stmarkscomics.com\/products\/corto-maltese-fable-of-venice-and-other-adventures-tp","provider":"St. Mark's Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}