HUGO PRATT

Corto Maltese. Under the Sign od Capricorn

This book, the first of 12 volumes, launches the definitive English language edition of Hugo Pratt’s masterpiece, presented in the original oversized B&W format with new translations made from Pratt’s original Italian scripts.

“Perhaps I am the king of the imbeciles, the last representative of a dynasty, now completely extinct, that beloved in generosity!..in heroism…”

Corto Maltese

A boy in search of a submerged continent, a drunken professor; a voodoo priestess and her young apprentice; a rebel who forces Corto Maltese to choose sides, and an injury that will cause him to look at reality in a new way.

While Corto is doing all he can to escape from the world, destiny keeps putting in his path people willing to do anything in pursuit of something: a lost land, a ship with a cargo of gold, the promise of freedom… A journey to discover South America, its mysteries and its intoxicating beauty.

Under the Sign of Capricorn collects the first six inter-connected short stories Pratt created in France in the early 1970s: “The Secret of Tristan Bantam”, “Rendez-vous in Bahia“, “Sureshot Samba“, “The Brazilian Eagle”, “So Much for Gentlemen of Fortune” and “The Seagull’s Fault.”