Under the sign of Capricorn
Subtitle: a Corto Maltese graphic novel
By: Hugo Pratt ; translated by Dean Mullaney and Simone Castaldi
Contributors: Mullaney, Dean, 1954- translator; Castaldi, Simone, translator
Edition: English edition.
Series: The Corto Maltese series
Publisher: EuroComics, an imprint of IDW Publishing
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9781631400650
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Sea stories; Adventure stories; Adventure and adventurers; Corto Maltese (Fictitious character); Fiction; Comic books, strips
Other titles: Corto Maltese (Comic strip)
Description: This book, the first of twelve volumes, launches the definitive English-language edition of Hugo Pratt's masterpiece, presented in the original oversized B&W format and with new translations made from Pratt's original Italian scripts... The adventures of this modern Ulysses are set during the first thirty years of the 20th Century in such exotic locales as Pratt's native Venice, the steppes of Manchuria, the Caribbean islands, the Danakil deserts, the Amazon forests, and the waves of the Pacific.
Notes: Chiefly illustrations.

Translated from the Italian.
Table of contents: title: Chapter one: The secret of Tristan Bantam; title: Chapter two: Rendez-vous in Bahia; title: Chapter three: Sureshot Samba; title: Chapter four: The Brazilian eagle; title: Chapter five: So much for gentlemen of fortune; title: Chapter six: The seagull's fault.