Hugo Pratt

Corto Maltese - Appointment in Bahia, 1970 pencil and ink on thin cardboard 36 x 47.5 cm Original comic art created by Pratt for the third Corto Maltese adventure entitled "Appuntamento a Bahia," published for the first time in France (with the title "Rendez-vous à Bahia") in the PIF magazine n. 59 on page 11 in April 1970. The young Tristan Bantam during a short rest on an armchair experiences a dream in which he meets the shadow of himself and sees the entrance to the mythical world of MU, in this dream Tristan will also meet a priest of Mu who warns him that he is a special individual destined to find the lost continent, thus completing the path undertaken by his father. An iconic page full of those esoteric elements so dear to Pratt. The sixth panel on this page was reproduced on the cover of the volume "Corto Maltese: Rendez-vous à Bahia" published by Editions Casterman in 1973. On two panels.