Seleçóes de Terror (Outubro)

    (Outubro, 1960-1966)

Editora Continental / Outubro / Taika were 3 names used by the same small publisher in Brazil. The work of artists Jayme Cortez & Miguel Penteado, they decided to form the company in 1959 after working several years for Editora De Selva, and getting tired of taking the bus to work while their bosses kept buying new cars. About 2 years in, Continental was hit with a cease-and-decist order from some other publisher who had apparently filed for registration of the name "Continental". As a result, they changed their name to "Outubro". Both Continental and Outubro turned out to be registered by other companies, causing years of legal hassles, before someone finally decided to rename it after their niece, Taika. Sadly, around that time, Cortez & Penteado had a major falling-out, which saw Cortez going into advertising, while Penteado also left to form a new company of his own, Graphic Editora Penteado (GEP). But while they were together, they produced some wonderful comics, many of them in the horror genre, each doing many gorgeous, stunning cover paintings!

While Continental published a variety of genres, horror was their big thing, and their anchor title for it was Seleçóes de Terror. Whatever else might have been included over time, every issue featured Dracula. While quite a few covers are signed "M. Penteado", these are reportedly ALL the work of Jayme Cortez for this series.

-Henry Kujawa via Professor H's House of Horrors blog
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