Il grande Houdini

Subject and script: Alfredo Castelli
Artwork: Paolo Ongaro
Cover Illustration: Giancarlo Alessandrini

Paris, 1871. A man watches in horror as the revolt of the Commune is savagely put down, after which the man vanishes into thin air. New York, third millennium, 2006. An aficionado of illusionism knocks on Number 3 of Washington Mews, claiming to have knowledge of Harry Houdini’s most incredible secret. It’s the diary of an obscure eighteenth-century conjurer, who, so it appears, influenced the career of the legendary “escapism artist”. As he browses through the diary, Martin Mystère finds himself caught up in a series of events that began in 14th-century France and reach their culmination at the present time, on the mysterious “Elsewhere” base…