Corto Maltese #2

In "La casa dorata di Samarcanda [parte seconda]", Corto Maltese journeys through a fractured post-imperial landscape, chasing a legendary treasure tied to Alexander the Great’s forgotten legacy. As he traverses the shifting borders of the Turkish Republic, the Soviet Union, and Reza Pahlavi’s Iran, he encounters diverse peoples and hidden truths, all while pursuing a mission that blurs myth with necessity.

Tutto ricominciò con un'estate indiana unfolds in the 1600s near the New England settlement of New Canaan, where peaceful ties between English colonists and local Native peoples have long endured. A sudden, violent clash erupts on a day of golden autumn weather, shattering the fragile calm and igniting tensions rooted in forbidden love, repressed desire, and the rigid moral code of a Puritan community.

In "Appuntamento a Bahia," Corto Maltese journeys through 19th-century Brazil with Tristan Bantam and Jeremiah Steiner, bound for Bahia to meet Tristan’s half-sister Morgana. Along the way, they encounter Cayenne, a fugitive escaping a French Guiana penal colony, as shadows of greed and legacy begin to follow them. In the sun-drenched port city, long-buried family secrets stir—Tristan finally meets Morgana, but their reunion is shadowed by the dangerous ambitions of lawyer Milner, who seeks to claim their father’s inheritance at any cost.