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With a foreword and afterword by Gianni Brunoro. A letter has been printed in this issue that was not included in the first edition of Casterman (1978). When the story first appeared in Sgt. Kirk (No. 1, 1967) this letter was printed, addressed to Signore Ivaldi, the magazine's publisher. The letter was signed by a certain Obregan Carrenza. This is a fictitious letter (written by Hugo Pratt himself), in which Carrenza, who would have known Corto Maltese himself, passed on the whole story to Hugo Pratt and also told how things went on with the main characters after this adventure. It was Pratt's intention that people should think that everything really happened. (See image 3 of 'La ballata del mare salato' by the Italian publisher Arnoldo Mondadori from 1972). In this issue they have not printed the opening lines of the letter: 'Dear Mr. Ivaldi', because no one would understand who that was. The portraits of the main characters are also included in this edition, in large format. Translated from the Italian by Emilie Saada and Laurent Lombard. New scans of Hugo Pratt's original plates, printed in actual size.
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