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Issue: Corto Maltese #1
Publication Date: January 1986
 
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Title: The Brazilian Eagle
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagNBM
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Indicia Publisher:
On Sale Date: 1986
Volume: 1
Pages: ?
ISBN: 091834817X
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $6.95 USD
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Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: Color cover; Black and White interiors (#6 Full Color)
Dimensions: 8.5" x 11" (21.6 cm x 27.9 cm)
Paper Stock: Cardstock cover
Binding: Softcover
Publishing Format: Graphic Novels
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The Brazilian Eagle

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
adventure, historical
Corto Maltese
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Hugo Pratt (photo of); Corto Maltese
Hugo Pratt, international citizen, guitarist, born actor, is first and foremost a storyteller.
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The Secret of Tristan Bantam

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure, historical
Corto Maltese; Jérémiah Steiner; Madame Java; Tristan Bantam
Corto Maltese meets a drunk named Jeremiah Steiner. Steiner accompanies Corto to Corto's boat, where Steiner falls asleep. At Madame Java's, Corto is introduced to Tristan Bantam, who asks him for help looking for the legendary Mu, following in his father's footsteps. As they're talking an attacker tries to kill Tristan. Corto manages to foil the attack and finds an address on the attacker's body. He discovers that Tristan's guardian, the lawyer Milner, is behind the attack. Corto, Tristan, and Professor Steiner decide to look for Tristan's sister.
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Rendez-vous in Bahia

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (translation)
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Subject Matter
adventure, historical
Corto Maltese; Jérémiah Steiner; Tristan Bantam; Frou-Frou; Cayenne; Morgana Bantam; Bahianinha; Milner
Corto Maltese, Tristan Bantam and Professor Steiner are heading to Bahia to visit Tristan's half-sister Morgana. En route, they pick up Cayenne, a fugitive. In Bahia, Tristan meets Morgana for the first time. Tristan and Morgana are taken prisoner by their father's lawyer, Milner, who says he is there to eliminate their father's heirs in order to claim their father's fortune. Corto Maltese interrupts the discussion by taking the lawyer prisoner and dismissing his minions with a ruse. Corto frees his friends locked up in a room and gives Milner to Cayenne, who has an old score with the lawyer.
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Sureshot Samba

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (translation)
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Subject Matter
adventure, historical
Corto Maltese; Tristan Bantam; Jeremiah Steiner; Morgana Bantam; Bahianinha; Gold Mouth; Sureshot
On the beach of Itapoã the group meet Gold Mouth, a seer and friend of Morgana and Bahianinha who hires Corto to help his friend harassed by Colonel Goncalves. Sailing upriver, they encounter Goncalves' subordinate, Captain De Oliveira. A group of native people take possession of De Oliveira's boat. Their leader, Sureshot, tells Corto that Gold Mouth's friend was killed by the colonel and the captain. At the colonel's estate, Sureshot manages to eliminate the colonel and his collaborators, but is also killed. Corto chooses a young man to replace Sureshot in the fight against the oppressors.
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The Brazilian Eagle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
adventure, historical
Corto Maltese; Gold Mouth; Morgana Bantam; Lucia; Baron Hasso Von Manteuffel; Jawbreaker; Jérémiah Steiner; Tristan Bantam
Corto, Tristan, and Jeremiah set out for England but during the journey Corto decides to look for a sunken ship laden with gold. During the exploration they are imprisoned by a German baron who reveals himself to be in business with Morgana. One of the Baron's men turns out to be an undercover British agent, and reveals that Morgana and her financier are also loyal to England, and that the whole deal with the Germans was just a maneuver to sink the German ship, which had been attacking Allied ships in the area. Corto & company resume their journey, without the salvage.
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