![]() ![]() ![]() These encounters take him to Shanghai to Manchuria and Mongolia to Siberia. ![]() Along the way, Corto meets numerous fascinating scalawags.Īfter being hired by the Red Lanterns, Corto encounters sundry freebooters on opposing sides of a many-sided struggle for power in post-Tsarist Russia. In this tale set in about 1919, Corto meets his old frenemy Rasputin, and the two go off in search of a train carrying vast amounts of gold that once belonged to the recently murdered Russian Tsar, Nicholas II. All the previous Corto Maltese books have been compilations of short stories, often related to each other but free-standing, too. The fifth in IDW’s current Corto Maltese reprint project, this volume is the first book-length tale, qualifying thereby as an authentic graphic novel published in 1974, it preceded Will Eisner’s A Contract with God by four years. A new translation by Dean Mullaney and Simone Castaldi ![]()
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