Corto Maltese box set (6 Dvd)

Six unmissable episodes in an extraordinary deluxe package.
The box contains:
The golden house of Samarkand
Corto Maltese travels with Rasputin in search of a prison with a bizarre name: the golden house of Samarkand. But above all of a fabulous and mythical treasure
A ballad of the salty sea
"My name is Pandora Groovesnore. When I met him I was a child. It was November 1913, XNUMX when I saw Corto Maltese for the first time ...". Seen and never forgotten.
Under the banner of gold
If adventure is a woman, who can deny Corto the role of an ideal man?
Tropic of Capricorn
Between 1916 and 1917, Corto Maltese explains the sails of his adventures between Brazil, Guyana and the Caribbean Sea
The Ethiopians
Only Hugo Pratt has been able to travel with the imagination as much and perhaps more than Salgari, Sandokan's father
Heads and mushrooms
The truth of a betrayal is sometimes so difficult to swallow, that it can only be veiled with melancholy...

Corto Maltese - A ballad of the salty sea - A classic of Hugo Pratt's comic is revisited in cartoon, respecting the graphic trait characteristic of the author and embellishing it with dreamy tropical backgrounds and environments. The story of Corto Maltese is set shortly before the outbreak of the First World War in the Pacific islands. Corto Maltese is part, together with the shady Rasputin, of a group of adventurers enlisted by the Monk, a mysterious character whose face we never see. Monaco has decided to support Germany in exchange for money and this battle between different wills pushes him to wage a privateer war. There is no doubt that it is piracy and for the young lieutenant of the German navy Slutter the problem is just that: being forced to participate in actions that he disapproves of. Together with the animated film you will find the following special contents: Corto Maltese: from drawing to animation, from two-dimensional to three-dimensional - The sets and original drawings of the films - Interview with Pascal Morelli ..

Corto Maltese. Corte Sconta called Arcana - In December 1918 Corto Maltese spends his days in Venice but the time has come for him to get back on the road. The intrigues of Hong Kong, the war in Manchuria, the snow of the Siberian winter and the gold of the Tsar, who escaped the revolution and ended up in the hands of Admiral Kolchak, await him. There are many who want it, among all Corto and the pirate Rasputin, allies of the Chinese revolutionary sect of the Red Lanterns, led by the mysterious Shanghai Lil ...

Corto Maltese - The Golden House of Samarkand - We will see Corto Maltese venture along the same road that led Marco Polo to the east, the one to Samarkand. Corto Maltese leaves both to look for gold and because his friend Rasputin is locked up in one of the worst prisons in that country. Corto will face an unexpected enemy: an evil and cowardly double and a treacherous Turkish officer.

Corto Maltese - Under the gold banner - History was coveted in Europe during the First World War. In Venice he is seduced by a dangerous woman and manages to dismantle an espionage network. At Sette Casoni he orchestrates the theft of the treasure of the Kingdom of Montenegro on behalf of the Republicans and a band of adventurers, some of whom will become famous (Onassis, Hemingway). At Stonehenge Corto daydreams images of legendary characters: the Wizard Merlin, the touchy Titania and the mischievous Puck. Corto will write a secret page in the history of the First World War. On the Argonna front, he meets Cain Groosvenore again, discovers that Pandora has married and is present at the death of the German aviation ace, the Red Baron. ....

Corto Maltese - Tropic of Capricorn - Corto navigates in the Caribbean in the wake of Blackbeard, Calico Jack and the other pirates of the 600th century. It goes to the coast of Guyana and Brazil and tries its luck in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest. In his travels Corto finds (and loses) a treasure, meets a voodoo priestess, finds some traces of Mu, the disappeared continent, helps a convict escaped from a Cayenne prison, supports poor farmers in their struggle against wealthy landowners and comes into contact with Indians capable of shrinking their heads ...

Corto Maltese - Heads and mushrooms - Corto loses his memory. To help him buy it back, his friend Steiner prepares him a risotto based on a magic mushroom. Corto regains his memory and revives the incredible adventure of Pierre la Reine, the man who nearly found Eldorado. ...

Corto Maltese - Ethiopian - Three other epic adventures by Corto Maltese, entitled The Last Shot, ... and by other Romei and other Juliet and Leopardis, which Hugo Pratt reunited under the title The Ethiopians, because they shared that overseas, which beyond it has never been, between the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. In the midst of colonialism and fanaticism, pillars of wisdom and shamanic rites. Only Corto disguised as a Bedouin can free the little prince Saud imprisoned in a fortress. Only Corto can make possible the impossible marriage between a Christian Abyssinian and a Muslim dankalo. And only Corto does not let himself be intimidated by the tam tams of the leopard men, a secret sect that celebrates human sacrifices ....