Corto Maltese: The Early Years

by Hugo Pratt

This short adventure tells the backstory of Corto Maltese first meeting Rasputin at the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.

The protagonist of this tale, actually, is not the 18-year-old Corto, but Rasputin, a deserter from a Siberian rifle regiment, and the writer Jack London, who was a war correspondent in the region at that time. London is already friends with Corto and introduces the sailor to the unpredictable Russian, who even...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684055032
• ISBN13: 9781684055036
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 11.5"