Os Mercenários (Clássicos Ilustrados) (Gibi Edição Maravilhosa #106) - Quadrinização de "Soldiers of Fortune" de Richard Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis

EBAL / Editora Brasil-América

1955

52 páginas

1h 44m

ISBN-13: 9781551116792

Português Brasileiro

[Edição Maravilhosa — 1ª Série, Número 106. Publicado em Julho de 1955] Richard Harding Davis —
Os Mercenários (Clássicos Ilustrados) / Direção: Adolfo Aizen. (Brochura - Formato Americano - Quadrinhos em Preto e Branco). Originalmente "Soldiers of Fortune" - Classics Illustrated n° 119/1954 - The Gilberton Company, Inc. (1942–1967).
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Os mercenários / História: Richard Harding Davis / Desenho: Kurt Schaffenberger
Publicada originalmente em Classics Illustrated n° 119/1954 - Gilberton.
Título original americano: “Soldiers of fortune”.
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[Wikipedia]: Davis had success with his 1897 novel "Soldiers of Fortune", which he turned into a play written by Augustus Thomas. His novel was filmed twice, in 1914 and in 1919 by Allan Dwan. The 1914 version starring Dustin Farnum was shot on the Cuban locations that Davis used in his novel, and Davis was present during the filming. During the Spanish–American War, Davis was on a United States Navy warship when he witnessed the shelling of Matanzas, Cuba, a part of the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. His story made headlines, but as a result, the Navy prohibited reporters from being aboard any American naval vessel for the rest of the war.

Davis was a good friend of future President Theodore Roosevelt, and he helped create the legend surrounding the Rough Riders, of which he was made an honorary member. Some[who?] have even gone so far to accuse Davis of involvement in William Randolph Hearst's alleged plot to have started the war between Spain and the United States in order to boost newspaper sales; however, Davis refused to work for Hearst after a dispute over fictionalizing one of his articles.

Despite his alleged association with yellow journalism, his writings of life and travel in Central America, the Caribbean, Rhodesia and South Africa during the Second Boer War were widely published. He was one of many war correspondents who covered the Russo-Japanese War from the perspective of the Japanese forces. Davis later reported on the Salonika Front of the First World War, where he was arrested by the Germans as a spy, but released. . .
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