Rasputin is pinned by a falling torpedo. Lady Venetia clings to a stalactite. Only Corto stands calm, holding Achille under one arm.
Corto pulls his line from the water. On the hook is not a fish, but a single silver coin – a 1921 lira – that he had lost in Venice two months earlier. I Classici del Fumetto Nr 01 Corto Maltese
The entire mountain begins to shake . The magnetic field inverts. The U-boat, the clams, the stones – all begin to fall upward , crashing against the cave’s ceiling. Rasputin is pinned by a falling torpedo
They are intercepted by a sleek British schooner. Aboard is , a pale, red-haired archaeologist with the eyes of a starving hawk. She is financed by a secret committee of London bankers who want the Serpent’s Egg to control the new oil routes in Persia. Corto pulls his line from the water
He hands it to the boy.
Next issue: I Classici del Fumetto Nr. 02 – “Corto Maltese and the Cobalt Cipher of the Inca”