Okay, a week late on scanning & processing, but... MY LATEST ACQUISITION (and minor cover clean-up)...
PANICO #3(Safari Editorial, S.A. / Mexico / 2000 ?)
"
Enterrado Vivo" ("
The Premature Burial")
Adaptation & Art by Ruben Jaimes
This publisher is a real mystery. Apart from ads on a variety of sites (including Ebay) by ONE seller who got his hands on a number of titles from them, I have not been able to find ANY info about them ANYWHERE online.
I have to make a wild guess that the book came out sometime between 1990 - 2000, based entirely on a photo of a cell-phone in a PHONE SEX advert on the back cover. (Yes, that's what I said.)
I just happened to see the cover on Ebay by dumb luck. I couldn't miss the title "
Enterrado Vivo", or the cover painting obviously based on the poster for '
X-- THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES" with Ray Milland, made the same year as Corman's "
THE PREMATURE BURIAL".
Yes, the story is very loosely based on Poe's story (though his name is not mentioned anywhere in the book), it seems slightly inspired by the Corman film, but it's also partly... a WESTERN. Go figure.
I couldn't get the sticker off, I wasn't even going to try, and while it looks a bit beat-up, I decided the best thing was to just adjust the brightness & contrast slightly, and leave the rest of it AS-IS.
This book is, oddly, 4" wide x 5-5/8" high. So, bigger than a "mini-comic", but smaller than a "digest".