The Hound Of The Baskervilles Day!

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on this date in 1859. He of course is most famous for the creation of Sherlock Holmes. He also created Professor Challenger, a gruff scientist who was unafraid of new ideas. Doyle himself became fascinated with spiritualism. 

When people ask which novel is my favorite, I often reply with The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. It was sometime in 1968 when I was eleven when this magnificent tale first came into my ken, and it left its marks for certain, perhaps less savage than the titular hound, but no less permanent. One of the earliest projects here at the Dojo was to serialize the novel. You can find the beginning of that long ago project here. Below is a copy of the Whitman book which lit intrigue into this most famous of Doyle's canon. 

Jim Steranko must really like Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles as well, as can be seen from the double-page spread below from Mediascene. 

Steranko not only did a first-rate pastiche of the classic Hound tale in Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #3, but he's also illustrated a sequel to that story by Michael Hardwick, titled Revenge of the Hound.

Here are some sample pages from Steranko's SHIELD/Sherlock story.

Here are a few of his illustrations for Hardwick's book. The portrait of Holmes at the top of this post is from this project as well. 

The painting above of the great detective also served as a cover for a revived Argosy Magazine.

Holmes and Watson might have rid Dartmoor of the Hound, but they could not rid the world of it fascinating terror. 

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