#11
February 2019 · 19.99 USD; 25.99 CAD · 88 pages
On sale 2019-02-27
ISBN 978-1-68405-402-2
UPC 978168405402251999
Synopsis
When Corto Maltese accompanies his old friend Professor Steiner to pay a visit to the writer Hermann Hesse, he becomes immersed in a shifting, dreamlike adventure involving the quest for the Holy Grail, the Devil, the Sandman, and Death, as well as the knight Klingsor (a character from the epic poem Parzifal, Wagner’s opera Parsifal, and a novel by Hesse).
Notes
The Secret Rose is a single Corto Maltese story set in the year 1924 in Montagnola, Switzerland. Created by Hugo Pratt in the late 1980s. Guido Fuga contributed with artwork of cars and certain backgrounds. Translated from Pratt's original Italian scripts.
First published during 1987 in the Italian monthly magazine Corto Maltese as "Rosa Alchemica", and in the French monthly magazine Corto as "Les Helvétiques".
Reprinted from
- Corto Maltese #3 [42]
- Corto Maltese #4 [43]
- Corto Maltese #5 [44]
- Corto Maltese #6 [45]
- Corto Maltese #7 [46]
- Corto Maltese #8 [47]
Credits
- Script
- Hugo Pratt
- Pencils
- Hugo Pratt
- Inks
- Hugo Pratt
- Art director and co-cover designer
- Lorraine Turner
- Artwork of cars and certain backgrounds
- Guido Fuga
- Consulting editor
- Patrizia Zanotti
- Editor and designer
- Dean Mullaney
- Translator
- Dean Mullaney, Simone Castaldi
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